Changing Bead & Cross-Dominance

This curious issue reared it ugly head again 2 weeks ago, different cause and gun though. My Winchester Model 12 is stocked slightly too high for me, knew this day I bought it, rather than modify the stock I simply got use to looking over the gun to where I fathomed it was patterning. It worked most of the time, made it a pretty decent gun for the trap field, but couldn't break more than 22 on average on the skeet field with it. Finding this on the annoying side I started getting my face lower on the stock in order to get the right sight picture and shoot it properly, everytime I did, my scores went to hell, could not touch a low house target consitently. One of the resident members figured it out for me, I was shooting 2' behind the targets, everytime I got my face down low enough on the stock for the sight picture to "look" right, my left eye was taking over. Dug out my 870 yesterday, shot 20, 22, 22 in 35 KP/H winds, lost a couple of each round to diving targets.
 
I went to an optician about 2 months ago who is an avid sporting clays shooter and has a great reputation for helping troubleshoot vision issues for shooters. He had me bring my gun and shooting glasses to the appointment. After a bunch of visiion tests, testing my glasses on his machines and checking my gun fit he determined I have a cross dominance issue. He showed me how to properly set and install a shooting dot on my glasses. I am happy to report I am back in the game with a MAJOR improvement and feel much better about my shooting. The most noticeable change to me has come on the few outings I have had for waterfowl. The birds are dropping like flies to my trusty old 101 again. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!
 
It is a funny issue, one of my members found his solution was a Browning 425 Trap, the high rib and 60/40 pattern allows him to to always be looking above the gun, he uses this gun for all 3 games, and quite successfully I might add. Whereas, in my case, I didn't want to learn this habit, becauase I regularly shoot 3 other guns I don't need to do it on. Figured it would cause more problems than it solved. My work requires I wear safety glasses in certain areas, my regular glasses are industrial safety lenses, I have 2 pairs, one set has large lenses, I use those for shooting(less likely to be looking through the frames). I haven't needed to go to the dot solution, but I am quick to correct an issue when I see it crop up.
 
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