With wich eye we have to shoot

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Franky Sniper

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I have a question about the eye you use to shoot.

When I check my prominent eye is my left one but I'm a right shooter. Am I alone in that case?
What you do to correct that problem?
 
I am the same. I have trained to shoot with both eyes open. It's awkward at first but really helps with fatigue. Another option is cover your left eye with something while shooting.
 
The problem is when I use my left eye and close the left one my eye start to jump all the time after 2 secondes. When I close the right one I didn't have that problem but I'm not a left shooter so it's harder.
 
Try placing a dot sticker on the lens of your dominant eye of your shooting glasses. It should be big enough that it blocks the centre of your pupil/vision, but so you can still see with your peripheral. This with slowly train your brain to change your weak eye to become dominant
 
a few left eye dominant and right handed shooters I know put some translucent scotch tape on the left lens of their shooting glasses and shoot right handed.
 
I'm in the same boat--right handed but left eye dominant (also called cross eye dominant).

Are you shooting rifle or pistol?

For pistol, I just cant the gun so that the sights align with my left eye. (Shooting left handed seems like a disaster waiting to happen.) I put a dot sticker over my right eye to lessen the fatigue from keeping it closed when shooting. I'd recommend learning to shoot with both eyes open. Using a dot sticker is a good start.

For rifle, I have a normal (right handed) rifle but I shoot left, i.e. I use my dominant (left) eye with the scope, and pull the trigger with my left finger/hand. This also means I can cycle the bolt really fast with my right hand.
 
WolfChild said:
For rifle, I have a normal (right handed) rifle but I shoot left, i.e. I use my dominant (left) eye with the scope, and pull the trigger with my left finger/hand. This also means I can cycle the bolt really fast with my right hand.
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A friend of mine does the same thing, he's right handed, but left eye dominant and he shoots from his left side.

The big thing is practise. You can either start shooting left and practise left and get the muscle memory down, or start shooting right and train your brain to work with your right eye.
When I was surveying I would get headaches from always closing my left eye and looking through the total station with my right, so I had to start using both eyes and switch back and forth. It was tough at first, but I would use my left eye for any close easy shots, and my right for longer tougher ones, but after a while it became normal from either eye.

Now this summer I've been trying to focus on keeping both eyes open while shooting clays. It took a while and some concentrating on my eyes instead of the target (which means I missed a lot) but once I got the hang of it I started hitting the clay much more often than when I was closing one eye.
 
VanMan said:
a few left eye dominant and right handed shooters I know put some translucent scotch tape on the left lens of their shooting glasses and shoot right handed.
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This is what I do. It allows me to keep both eyes open and relaxed. If I close my left eye, I get eye-strain really fast. Experiment with the position and opacity of the tape until it feels right.
 
My thoughts on this topic come from coaching I have done with kids in archery. Early on detection for left eye dominant folks fair best to shoot left handed. It may be a bit of old history that most kids were forced to write right handed, pitch right, eat with your fork right, when they were really leftys. Everything from competitive sports like baseball to shooting those coaches who catch this early on may best help foster your natural tendancy to shoot or throw left handed. Don't fight nature...you will loose I say.

However, the only way to trick your brain now will be to either black out your dominant eye or as dand883 suggests...retrain your brain. Good luck.
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How bad is vision in your right eye?

With me my left eye is miles ahead of the right, so I'm limited to shooting left for rifles (with any accuracy). So when I'm forced to shoot weakside (competitions and such) I close my left eye.
 
Seen a few pictures of people who raised their scopes up enough to be able to lean their head in and shoot with their left eye anyway. Probably would take some getting used to.
Lucky for me my left eye barely half opens anyway...
 
I shoot pistol with my left eye but right handed and both eyes open. Trap, rifle and archery I shoot right with my right eye open, left closed. I know its "not the right thing" but 40 years of shooting that way I just can't do it left handed. I took up archery a couple years ago, tried lefty but I don't have the fine motor skills with my left that I do on my right hand.
 
The best is to shoot utilizing your dominant eye. If you are left eye dominant you ideally be shooting left with a rifle. With a hand gun you can shoot with the right hand and move the gun over to be in front of the left eye.

Having said that, you can also utilize the suggestions in this thread as they do work and shoot right handed. I just think that you have a dominant eye and you should use it.

It will take some practice to shoot left but in the long run I believe you will be a more accurate and more comfortable. It also makes shooting with both eyes opened easier!
 
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