Do you shoot a scoped rifle with 2 eyes open?

Do you shoot a scoped rifle with both eyes open?

  • Yes, I shoot with both eyes open

    Votes: 97 29.8%

  • No, I don't shoot with both eyes open

    Votes: 131 40.3%

  • It depends. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

    Votes: 97 29.8%
  • Total voters
    325
  • Poll closed .
pazzo said:
^^ You guys are probably just shooting (or hunting) out to 50 yds or so, right? Thought so.

If you are shooting at any real distances you would have to close your eye as it is unfocused and useless, while your other eye acquires the target through the scope. Sure, leave it open if you want but it is not doing anything useful.
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Nope, longest I have taken something with both eyes open was a coyote at 230m.

It is way easier to track a moving target a range with both open.

Shawn
 
^^ You guys are probably just shooting (or hunting) out to 50 yds or so, right? Thought so.

If you are shooting at any real distances you would have to close your eye as it is unfocused and useless, while your other eye acquires the target through the scope. Sure, leave it open if you want but it is not doing anything useful.
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Wrong! I always shoot with both eyes open, as far as I shoot, which is regularly out to 500 meters. The second eye provides some peripheral vision which can be helpful. You can see other objects which aren't visible in the scope.
 
I can as I have used a hand lens for decades at work. If you use a loupe for an hour a day it is easier to keep both eyes open and after a while you will automatically ignore and not even see anything out of your subordinate eye while using the hand lens.
 
Usually close the left eye, even with a red dot, unless it is 50m or closer. I dont know why , I just do it that way and it seems to work for me.
 
i usually have both eyes open while acquiring the target, as this is easier with a high zoom. Once i see bullseyes/fur in the scope, i close my left eye.
 
I voted sometimes.

I have a Trijicon Accupoint on my hunting rifle and a Trijicon ACOG on my AR-15. Both have the Bindon aiming concept where they are meant to be used with both eyes open. Used my ACOG/AR-15 out to 600 meters and used it with no issues.

I have a Bushnell 3-9X on my Marlin 336 and use it with both eyes open.

When I shoot my 10/22 at distance (between 100-300 yards) I close one eye.

Pistols I shoot with both eyes open.
 
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I'd love to be able to shoot with both open, tried it lots but I have been cursed with a very dominant left eye and being right handed. If both eyes are open basically I cannot see sights/scope/redot picture with my right. Shooting pistols I cannot focus with just my right eye well enough so I actually have to use my left or just leave both open and 'point' shoot. :)
 
and concerning my last post, and a scope, I am talking about 1.5 to about 2.5 power set on a lower pouer variable, certainly not a scope at 8 or above for a long shot, in other words, when the deer are busting out within say 20 to 60 yards, hell bent for leather!
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I am talking any of my scopes, which is up to 24x. In fact, out of habit, I keep both eyes open when using my spotting scope at 60x.
 
Knyte said:
I'd love to be able to shoot with both open, tried it lots but I have been cursed with a very dominant left eye and being right handed. If both eyes are open basically I cannot see sights/scope/redot picture with my right. Shooting pistols I cannot focus with just my right eye well enough so I actually have to use my left or just leave both open and 'point' shoot. :)
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You and me both. I think I'm going to get some special glasses someday.
 
I'd been shooting cyclops style since I was a kid so when I first started using the ACOG I found it difficult to keep both eyes open. However, after a couple of years behind one I found it difficult to not keep both eyes open. To this day I can't shoot cyclops style. BTW, last weekend I was shooting all afternoon magnified between 14 to 24 times, 150ish rounds, both eyes open. I find my eyes don't fatigue as quickly shooting with both eyes open.
 
Left eye closed for me, been shooting like that for a long time. Have tried shooting with both open but old habits die hard. Some days it seems like i closed both eyes.
 
I shoot with both eyes open with everything, includeing 25 power tac/target scopes. I once believed that anyone that wasn't cross eye dominate could do the same thing if they cared to learn how.

I've since realized that it is just as stupid to tell someone else what they see with their own eyes as it is for them to tell me what I see.

Our brains interpet things differently. A fun little test is to get a few guys together with a low power variable. Look at something and crank the power back and forth until you are convinced that what you see through the scope is exactly what you see unaided then check the power on the ring. For me and several friends 3 equals nothing, while others see a bit of magnification at 1.5. It doesn't matter if a next guy is willing to get in a fist fight over it, swearing that " getting something three times closer is enough for anyone" if your brain has examined the data and put the object back where it belongs. Did you know that if you rig up a lens fixture to turn the world upside down, that your brain will eventually correct and flip it back? It takes about 3 days, but the brain can correct to what it knows to be true.

If we can't even agree on magnification, how are we going to agree on 1 eye or 2? If you see 2 barrels when you have 2 eyes open, then me counting the barrels and telling you you're full of #### doesn't change anything. If you think that a fixed 3 power scope is all that you need, then I think you should get one but don't assume that everyone sees everything the same as you do.
 
Both eyes open for about 10 years now started with a shot gun then open sight 22 then scopes took me about a year for it to become automatic
 
I try shoot both eyes open but it's a hard skill to master and do right. When in doubt, the left eye is closed.
 
Both eyes open, however, I have a grey patch around my scope tube that blocks what my left eye sees.

It reduces eye strain, and works really well. Much more relaxing, and yet I am able to clearly focus on what I'm looking at with my right eye.
 
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