Blind in right eye
Does someone make a raised platform for a red dot system so a right handed shooter can shoot with their left eye?
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Following this plan means the only long guns in the world you'll be able to shoot will be those you've specially modified.
Best thing to do in this situation is condition yourself to shoot a long gun left handed. It will feel terribly awkward/unnatural at first, but that's only because you're not used to it. No precise physical act feels natural at first.
It's not physically impossible. It's just a matter of having the mental attitude to practice with the goal of mastering it. Repetition leads to muscle memory, the inevitable result of which is feeling comfortable performing a physical function.
I've been a LE firearms instructor for a few decades now and have seen this play out with tons of people. Many are surprised to find they actually end up shooting better from their non-'master' side.0 -
When I was 20 I had a detached retina and had to start shooting left handed. I purchased a contender thinking I could use my hands normally and use my left eye. Before hunting season I attempted to shoot all my long guns left handed and never realy used the contender. It helped that my dad had told how he had shot Garands, M1 carbines and 03's left handed during WWII and the worst thing would be getting hit with hot brass, Which has never presented a problem to me. Actually have got hit with more pistol brass while shooting 'right' handed.
What I have found in 26 years is that other than bolt guns the safty presents the most problems. Cross bolt safties work wrong, some can be reversed but then it becomes a safety issue for other users, you can get used to curling the finger under and around but is annoying. I tend to pick shotguns that have a thumb operated tang safety.
Learning to pump with the opposite arm was awkward but a day on the skeet range took care of muscle memory.
Bolt guns are difficult if not using a rest and if you are you will loose your sight picture between shots or hit yourself in the nose when you work the bolt. Finally after 26 years I purchased a LH Ruger 77 that I've yet to shoot.
I've yet to find a long gun that I could not shoot left handed but if I'm going to use it personnally it needs an ambidextrius frindly safety and mag release.0 -
A few comments:
If you create a simple mounting system to divert a sighting system over about two inches so a right handed shooter will be sighing with the left eye, you're going to introduce a nasty parallax issue.
At ONE specific range, your bullets will hit dead on. Short of that range, your bullets will hit to the right of your point of aim, and past that distance, to the left of your point of aim.
Its a satisfactory solution if (and only if) you are ALWAYS shooting at the EXACT same distance, or if you don't really need maximum accuracy. It won't ever be ideal, but for hunting at short distances (ie 100 yards or less), the error introduced by parallax may be small enough that this could be "good enough".
It should be possible to create a horizontal periscope-like optical sighting arrangement that puts the objective lens over the bore, with the exit pupil in front of the left eye. That would look at little odd, but it should, effectively eliminate the above parallax issue. I've never seen such a device. And you'd need something like this for EVERY gun you'd want to use.
Personally, speaking, I'm right handed but left eye dominant, and this hasn't posed an insurmountable obstacle for me in shooting HANDGUNS. When shooting two handed, I just turn my head to the right a bit. Voila, now I'm sighting with my left eye. This is particularly easy with an isoceles-type grip.
For shooting bullseye pistol (one handed) its the same thing, but I have to turn my head HARD right, so that my chin rests on my right shoulder. (Some call this the "kiss the bicep" technique). Again, gun in right hand, sighting with left eye. Not the most comfortable arrangement in the world, but the bullets hit the target often enough for me not to want to learn to shoot lefty!
With long guns, I'm screwed. I know of no way to shoot an ORDINARY longgun right handed sighting with the left eye. (There are drastic stock modifications that will let you do this, and in fact, there was a thread on a gun like this opened quite recently).
When shooting long guns, I just close my left eye, and shoot with my weaker right one. Obviously, this won't work if you don't have a functioning right eye.
I think the only real answer there is to learn to shoot left handed.
Edit: Here is a link to the current thread on the off-sided gun
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5683770 -
Kenny contacted me by email and I lined him up with some possibilities. He's got a start on the hardware to set up his rifle for right hand/left eye shooting.
Anyone else need some help on the subject of adaptive sight systems, I'm right here.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
Kenny contacted me by email and I lined him up with some possibilities. He's got a start on the hardware to set up his rifle for right hand/left eye shooting.
Anyone else need some help on the subject of adaptive sight systems, I'm right here.
Much to do about nothing!!!
I am 64 years old (today) and have been shooting handguns RH and long guns LH forever![;)]
Once you start shooting LH it will become as natural as RH. (as stated above)![;)] Don't over complicate this, just roll with the flow![8D]
Good hunting, keep your power dry!0
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