Weird Question regarding my Master Eye

Rosedalegungal

Rosedalegungal

New member
EE Expired
Rating - 0%
0   0   0
Location
Rosedale BC
Hi I have a weird Question regarding my master eye. I'm new to shooting handguns & to CGN & figured this might be the place to ask.
My master eye changes. Sometimes every trip to the range & once midway through my outing after changing targets. Usually my master is my left (even though I'm right handed, although I do lots with my left too I don't write with it). Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening or what I can do about it other than just checking periodicly?
Any suggestions would be really appreciated Thanks! :confused:
 
How are you checking for your dominant eye? It doesn't change, so maybe your way of checking is incorrect.
Try this :
Holding both hands out in front of you, form a small triangle with the crossed thumbs as the base and the rest of your hand as the other two sides.
With both eyes open, sight on something small, like the screw on a light switch across the room.
Close one eye at a time, and the one that sees the screw when the other is shut is the dominant eye.
 
Last edited:
Thanks! I'll try that! I was told to point at something far away with both eyes open then close eyes one at a time & the one that was looking directly at it instead of off to the side was the master. Maybe your suggestion will work better for me :)
 
Geoff's method works well. Using the point at something far away method, not so much. For me, at least. I can still see two fingers pointing and then can choose one to be the pointer. If I pick the one on the left, my right eye will be dominant.
 
Geoff B said:
How are you checking for your dominant eye? It doesn't change, so maybe your way of checking is incorrect.
Try this :
Holding both hands out in front of you, form a small triangle with the crossed thumbs as the base and the rest of your hand as the other two sides.
With both eyes open, sight on something small, like the screw on a light switch across the room.
Close one eye at a time, and the one that sees the screw when the other is shut is the dominant eye.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that. Works well.
 
Actually, for some people, myself included, it can switch. Its call monocular vision. When I do the eye dominance hands out, look at the wall thing, I see two sets of hands, as my eyes dont really talk to each other so to speak, but one is usually more clear than the other, and the close one eye thing yeilds different results, left or right depending on the time I do it, all depends on which image my brain has decided it likes better at the time. The solution for me, close and eye while shooting, started doing that when I was 5 shooting a pellet gun as it just seemed to work. My vision is slightly better in my right eye so I close my left anytime I'm shooting. Shooting with both eyes open has never seemed right to me.

My brother has it even worse than I do, when he is tired, his left eye just packs it in and goes away lol. It kinda funny talking to him when it happens, he'll be looking at you and his left eye will just start walking around all over, he doesnt notice it at all. He used to shoot with an eye patch, but now just closes the left when he shoots
 
moosedude said:
.

My brother has it even worse than I do, when he is tired, his left eye just packs it in and goes away lol. It kinda funny talking to him when it happens, he'll be looking at you and his left eye will just start walking around all over, he doesnt notice it at all.
Click to expand...

Commonly known as Lazy Eye <<<<click link

From what I've been told it's a very minor operation and takes only a few minutes to fix.
 
Tazzy said:
Commonly known as Lazy Eye <<<<click link

From what I've been told it's a very minor operation and takes only a few minutes to fix.
Click to expand...

The doc said nothing can be done for him. It only happens when he is really tired. And no our parents arent related, they're even from different countries lol. He has kind of a dual problem, but the monocular vision is something we both have. Basically, if we focus on something further than say ten feet away, anything closer doubles up and one of the two images will be slightly blurred the other quite clear and both sorta look transparent, if that makes sense. Its neurological, not like a lazy eye. Each eye feeds into a different place in the brain, the brain normally puts the two together seemlessly, which is why you dont notice the blind spot we all have due to the area where the optic nerve bonds to the eye. In our case the two images fight each other for position, more or less, so when one eye starts to get tired from taking point, the other steps in and dominates. So thats why I was saying it can switch. More often that not for me, neither eye dominates, so when i do the dominence test, the image moves when either eye is closed.

I know sounds weird, but closing an eye gets me a 3 inch group at 15 yards on a good day :) And I can shoot the same regardless of which eye i use as long as the other is closed
 
technikev said:
Geoff's method works well. Using the point at something far away method, not so much. For me, at least. I can still see two fingers pointing and then can choose one to be the pointer. If I pick the one on the left, my right eye will be dominant.
Click to expand...

Also sounds like this exact same thing, see I'm not inbred:p
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom