Trying to change my 'shooting eye'.....
1). I'm right handed.
2). My right eye has better vision than my left. Probably 30% better.
3). I can not 'wink' my left eye. Not even remotely.
4). So I've been shooting long guns left handed off & on for 40 years.
5). I can not use and shoot with a scope with both eyes open. Same with iron sights.
6). I war prescription glasses. Sun glasses for day, clears for night.
7). I wanna go out to our gun club next week and really start to practice shooting right handed.
8). I'm thinking I may need to try some sort of Piratey-type eye patch thing. Or duct tape.
9). But I'm open for better suggestions.
10). Thanx in advance, E/M.....
2). My right eye has better vision than my left. Probably 30% better.
3). I can not 'wink' my left eye. Not even remotely.
4). So I've been shooting long guns left handed off & on for 40 years.
5). I can not use and shoot with a scope with both eyes open. Same with iron sights.
6). I war prescription glasses. Sun glasses for day, clears for night.
7). I wanna go out to our gun club next week and really start to practice shooting right handed.
8). I'm thinking I may need to try some sort of Piratey-type eye patch thing. Or duct tape.
9). But I'm open for better suggestions.
10). Thanx in advance, E/M.....
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OK, go back to #'s 3 and 5. That does not make any sense. If you are shooting right handed, with a scope, and you can not wink your eye, the you are shooting with both eyes open. You can train yourself to shoot with both eyes open, and you should.
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I think he's "winking" with his right eye and shooting left handed #4.
You can get a patch to cover your glasses or your eye and shoot two eyes open right handed, you can shoot two eyes open right handed and get used to it. I shoot two eyes open as much as possible with handguns, shotguns, combat rifles and scopes. Hunting rifles with peep or open sights, no, I admit I cheat and close an eye. I need to quit doing that myself.
Takes getting used to at first, but it works.
Or you can keep shooting left handed and be the best you can be at it.0 -
if you wear a ball cap look at WWW.champchoice.com catalog for champions choice inc.Most all Bulls-Eye pistol shooter use a blinder on the brim of their ball cap and keep both eyes open. You adjust the blinder so it blocks the view of the sighs and target only with the OFF eye. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by El Mariachi
1). I'm right handed.
2). My right eye has better vision than my left. Probably 30% better.
3). I can not 'wink' my left eye. Not even remotely.
4). So I've been shooting long guns left handed off & on for 40 years.
5). I can not use and shoot with a scope with both eyes open. Same with iron sights.
6). I war prescription glasses. Sun glasses for day, clears for night.
7). I wanna go out to our gun club next week and really start to practice shooting right handed.
8). I'm thinking I may need to try some sort of Piratey-type eye patch thing. Or duct tape.
9). But I'm open for better suggestions.
10). Thanx in advance, E/M.....
Am I completely missing something here? I don't understand what the problem is.
If you're right-handed (which most people are) and right eye dominant (which most people are), then you should be able to shoot normally, either with your left eye open, or not.
What's the problem?
If you are truly right eye dominant, you really don't need to close your left eye when shooting. Your brain should automatically "tune out" the image from your left eye when focusing with your right (either with a scope or without).
Shooting with both eyes open does take a little getting used to, but it absolutely is possible with some work and practice.
As far as I can tell, the problem occurs when (like me) you are right handed and left-eye dominant, or vice versa. In THAT case when you hold a gun normally, your dominant eye lies several inches over to the left (or right) of the normal sighting plane, making it impossible to acquire a normal sight picture **UNLESS** you either close or partially mask the DOMINANT eye, or learn to shoot opposite- handed.
Is THIS the problem?
Assuming your facts are correct above, and it isn't, and no matter what you do, you just can't learn to shoot with both eyes open, you can still use the same type of solution as a cross dominant person would:
If you've tried shooting with both eyes open (I mean REALLY tried. . .like given it a few hours trying by pointing your gun at things, aiming, and shooting, NOT just a few shots) then there is a VERY simple solution to your problem.
Just put a strip of translucent (eg scotch) tape over the center of the field of view of the lens of your left eye shooting glasses. That will let enough light in for you to have depth of field and let you keep both eyes open, but block the image enough from your left eye, so that your brain doesn't get "confused" by two separate sighting images.
Incidentally, my personal solution to the cross-eye dominance sighting problem (again, I'm right handed but left eye dominant) is pretty simple. I shoot right handed, and just close my left eye when shooting longarms. Maybe not the best solution, but its pretty expedient! The translucent tape trick over my left eyeglass lens works too, but I always feel pretty weird with those one, when NOT shooting!0 -
If you can't close you left eye, it is your dominant eye. You need to shoot left handed. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cbyerly
If you can't close you left eye, it is your dominant eye. You need to shoot left handed.
Well, shooting with your non-dominant hand would be one way to go, and arguably the best way, depending on what exact gun you're shooting and what you're trying to accomplish, but its certainly not the only way.
I'm right handed, and strongly left eye dominant, but I shoot both handguns and longarms right handed.
With handguns I use different techniques depending on stance and what I'm trying to do. At its simplest, with a typical two handed "combat" isosceles stance, you can easily look over the sights with either eye you like. No issue there.
If I'm shooting gallery style (one handed) or with a Weaver stance, I'll usually just turn my head strongly to the right ("kiss the biceps technique") to put my left eye over the sights. Not pretty-looking, but easy enough to do.
With longarms, again, not too complicated.
Fortunately, I can close either eye on demand, so again, when shooting longarms, I usually just close my left eye. Alternatively, I could use the "scotch tape" trick (which is better), though in practice, I most often don't.
My biggest problem is that the vision in my right eye isn't quite as good as my left, so I can't see the target nearly so clearly as I could were I aiming with my left eye, and this makes it harder for me to shoot at distance with iron sights. With scopes, its not so much of an issue, because the image is magnified.
Yes, I do lose some peripheral vision/situational awareness by having my left eye closed, but I consider it a worthwhile compromise vs. either not shooting longarms at all, or trying to shoot (predominantly right handed) longarms left handed, which feels really unnatural to me.
On the other hand, closing my left eye when shooting is both easy, and feels pretty natural when I do it.0 -
Use a red dot and keep all eyes open all the time.
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