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I took a nubie out shooting to day trying to push him into getting his P.A.L. He really enjoyed it but when he shot through the scope we found out that he is right handed but left eye dominent so he can't line up the cross hairs properly. So i was just wondering how he can solve this problom besides using open sights??
 
Years back, I saw this quite often among some of my young troops. Some prefered to disengage the dominat eye, while others learned to develop their coordination in the non-dominat hand.

My wife has the same problem. She uses an eye patch to help disengage her dominant left eye so that she can maintain her right handed position.

My boy is showing signs of cross dominance, so I am not looking forward to him having to face these issues.

Best of luck with your nube.
 
switch hands. Use a .22lr and start switching hands. Thats what I did, shot my first four deer left handed, switched to right hand and shot the next 4 right handed. Now I can shoot both ways no problem, prefect when tree-stand hunting, I can shoot both ways without having to turn my body, much. Shouldering the gun doesn't feel awkward either way.
 
Eye dominance

I know that this is going to get some comments, but have him try shooting with BOTH eyes open. Shotgunners do it all the time.

With a bit of practice, it is quite possible and easy to use a scope with the non-dominant eye.

Since he is right handed, the shooting left handed tends to feel "wrong" and awkward, so a left handed gun is not really the way to go.

One of the best target shots I knew used offset iron sights, mounted to the left side of the action and barrel, (In case anyone wants to laugh, have they shot a Bren Gun?) so accuracy can be obtained.

Actually, when you think about it, how many of us have shot using the "wrong" eye while hunting, and you had to shoot "wrong hand" when you position didn't allow you to engage your target due to an obstruction or the way you were facing.

It's something that can be overcome.
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I can switch but would not try to change on heavier calibres. I will have to try one day to see how much Point of Impact changes. I am also going to test 3 rounds of Moly followed by 3 of copper and switch back and forth just to see. While competition shooters claim it is not a good idea what difference would it make if striving for hunting accuracy. I can always clean up with JB or whatever.
 
Shouldn't be a problem I am very dominant left eye and shoot right. I have to close my left eye, can't shoot with two as they see to different points. I would suspect your friend has a stigmatism in his right eye similiar to myself. An easy way to check if you can use two eyes for shooting is to hold your arm out and find a point to aim at with your thumb aiming with the left and right eye, if the point of aim changes can't use both eyes. You can also try a piece of tape over the left lense of glasses and try with both eyes but this doesn't work for me.
 
It is quite common that a right handed person has a weaker left shoulder. In addition the left hand will not be able to hold the rifle as steady as the right hand in free hand shooting.

I started a newbie shooting two seasons ago (right handed but left eye dominant).

I had him taped up the left side of his safety glasses. After 6 sessions he learned how to close the left eye. Now he is shooting 1MOA with his 300wm.

Not sure if this approach will work for everyone but it is worth the while to try this out.
 
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