MYTH - Eye Dominance

Doesn't matter which eye /eyes you choose to use.... at least keep 1 of them open when you pull that trigger :)
 
I'm right handed, for everything, and have been shooting guns for over 35 years and archery for 25 years. It was 5 years ago that I first heard the term "dominant eye". A local archery shop was selling "wrong hand" bows to new and young archers, who would show up at our club and have difficulty shooting or be shooting a right hand bow, with only their left eye open (according to my friend , Phil, who is a lifetime club member, was a Canada Games archery field judge, and was one of the instructors when I took my bow hunting course in 1989). I asked my archery shop guy to explain it to me. He had me look at the light switch on his wall with both eyes open, then cover one eye and then the other. The light switch location changed the least, when my right eye was uncovered, making me right eye dominant. I have never heard of anyone changing the eye they use, without the use of an eye patch, for archery. The discussion has never come up in my circle of gun pals.
 
My nephew has a eye condition in his right eye, so when I take him shooting he tries to use his left eye while holding the gun on his right shoulder (.22cal) It works but trying to get him to shoot left hand as well.
 
I have to agree with the statement that this thread is a waste of time.

Eye dominance is well documented.
 
Bigfoot 870 said:
.... He had me look at the light switch on his wall with both eyes open, then cover one eye and then the other. The light switch location changed the least, when my right eye was uncovered, making me right eye dominant. I have never heard of anyone changing the eye they use, without the use of an eye patch, for archery. The discussion has never come up in my circle of gun pals.
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That is backwards, the least movement happens when the less dominant eye is covered as the dominant eye maintains focus. When the thing jumps the most .. you just covered your dominant eye... and while well documented .. it's pretty obvious it's not understood by a lot of folks.

*** Sorry, miss-read your post, I thought you were saying covering your dominant eye causes less movement when you were saying uncovering .. confused me as the process used is backwards to what is taught in the PAL/RPAL courses but the same determination is made in the end. ****
 
I am right handed/left eye dominant. It isn't a problem for me shooting. Where it did cause a problem for a short time, was with my golf. Until I learned how to adapt and aim correctly. Now it isn't a problem.
 
TPK said:
That is backwards, the least movement happens when the less dominant eye is covered as the dominant eye maintains focus. When the thing jumps the most .. you just covered your dominant eye... and while well documented .. it's pretty obvious it's not understood by a lot of folks.

*** Sorry, miss-read your post, I thought you were saying covering your dominant eye causes less movement when you were saying uncovering .. confused me as the process used is backwards to what is taught in the PAL/RPAL courses but the same determination is made in the end. ****
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No worries TPK, six of one, half a dozen of the other:) Not feeling well these days, so my wording might have been confusing:cheers:
 
I'm right handed, left eye dominant. Pistol I shoot right handed but use my left eye. Rifle I use optics so no problem closing my left eye. Shotgun I shoot with both open, again no big deal. I tried switching to left handed but It felt too weird and I didn't enjoy it.
 
PEI ROB, you are calling BS for the following reason. A person is either left handed, right handed, or ambidextrous, meaning they can use both hands equally, this is a brain function, not an arm function, the same goes for their eyes, they are either right eye dominant, left eye dominant, or both eyes work equally… again this is s function of how the brain works not the mechanics of the eyes, the same goes for the ears, the left ear hears differently than the right or both the same.

Your do not have a dominant eye, so you cannot relate to others who do, and you cannot understand why they would have a dominant eye since you don't. It does not mean that others do not have a dominant eye. Optometrists are not taught this as its a function of neurology, not anatomy of the eye, and their is NOTHING they can do about it to fix it, address it, treat it or correct for it. It is how you are born, and there is NOTHING you can do to change it.

You can try all you like, but I bet you cannot make one of your own eyes more dominant than the next. That would be like changing yourself from right handed to left, it isn't going to happen. If you think its easy try it with the toilet paper first, and let us all know how that turns out. You won't stay at it for long. You cannot change the way you were born.

I am not sure why you cannot understand this, other than the fact, that because you have not experienced it, or do not experience it you cannot believe it.
 
As a left eye dominant person, I can say you are full of ####. I am right handed at everything but shooting. I have been to an eye docter and he said that while my vision is actually better then 20/20, my left eye is stronger, making it the dominant eye. When I started shooting, I shot right handed and was having some troubles getting used to it, seemed like I wasn't as good as I could be, so I tryed shooting lefty and it just felt so much more natural. My eye doesn't get strained either anymore like my right eye did.

The only place your comment has any stand is in china, where you are a righty because have to be. Nothing is made for the lefties there, especially not the QBZ-95!
 
Corry said:
Call it what you will here was my experience teaching my wife to shoot...

She is right handed and I'm left...

I shoot left handed and with my left eye...

Naturally her being right handed I placed the rifle in her hand so she would be shooting right, she shot about 20 rounds of .22 and could not hit the broad side of a barn.

She watched me shooting left handed and then when I handed her the rifle again she held it left and said, you know this feels better. She shot another 20 rounds holding left and using her left eye and was on target 90% of the time

She now always shoots left hand, left eye and is a better shot than I

So I don't know what you want to call it, she's right handed but shoots left
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This post describes my issue! ^
 
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