Shooting dots

Yes dots are very very helpful I would have to shoot with one eye closed if it were for dots/tape.

I would suggest using scotch tape, much cheaper than the dots.

As for finding the correct place of a dot, take a sticky note, cut it to make about a 1/2" by 1/2" square (use part of the sticky portion) draw a line from each corner to find the centre of the square, poke a hole in the centre with a thumb tack.

Place the square over your eye on your glasses to begin with, mount the gun close your dominant eye and look through the dot in the sticky note, you want to see the beads of the gun, if they aren't there move the stick note until they are.

It is easiest to put the square inside of your glasses that way once you find the correct spot you can cut a piece of tape the same size and place it over the square on the outside of your glasses.

This is the most "scientific" method, you can get another person, with the gun unloaded, you point the gun at them they look from the bead to your weak eye and then they place the tape over it, but that's not quite as accurate as the first method.


Hope that helps!
 
Nothing, it's not a bad idea to wear a hat if it's raining, keeps the water off your lenses.

I don't usually shoot with a hat but most people do.

You can get anti-fogging solutions for your local glasses shop or camera store etc.

But most shooting glasses have a anti-fog coating and even if they don't they conditions for fogging don't happen often enough to worry about it, keep a lens cloth and wipe them if you have to.
 
gwagen said:
Nothing, it's not a bad idea to wear a hat if it's raining, keeps the water off your lenses.

I don't usually shoot with a hat but most people do.

You can get anti-fogging solutions for your local glasses shop or camera store etc.

But most shooting glasses have a anti-fog coating and even if they don't they conditions for fogging don't happen often enough to worry about it, keep a lens cloth and wipe them if you have to.
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I ask because I waterfowl hunt in BC. Most of the time it rains.
 
gwagen said:
Place the square over your eye on your glasses to begin with, mount the gun close your dominant eye and look through the dot in the sticky note, you want to see the beads of the gun, if they aren't there move the stick note until they are.

Hope that helps!
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Don't you mean close the weak eye that corresponds to the shoulder you usually mount the gun to? Then using the dominate eye look through the hole and adjust till you see the side of the gun and the front bead?
 
He was asking about crossfiring so you're dominant eye most of the time is the eye on the same side as the gun, but as you're looking for the target the dominance switches to the normally weaker eye.

If you were left eye dominant and right handed then yes you would close your right and put the dot and hole over the left
 
I consider any eye dominance problem as the eye not looking down the barrel having an adverse impact on sight picture. It is the eye opposite to the inline gun eye that needs to be obscured, regardless of dominance.

If you are lucky and have a dominant eye then you should shot of the shoulder that matches, but many don't have this kind of true dominance.
 
Most people who are completely opposite left eye dominat and right handed can't make the switch to shooting left handed. Todd bender will tell you himself that out of hundreds if not the thousands he has coached he has only had a couple of shooters change the side they mount the gun on.

99% of the time it is not correct to make a right handed shooter with a dominant left eye changes sides.
 
gwagen said:
Most people who are completely opposite left eye dominat and right handed can't make the switch to shooting left handed. Todd bender will tell you himself that out of hundreds if not the thousands he has coached he has only had a couple of shooters change the side they mount the gun on.

99% of the time it is not correct to make a right handed shooter with a dominant left eye changes sides.
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I agree with that for shooters that have been shooting awhile but a new shooter I might start off on their weak shoulder if it matched their dominate eye, however many people don't have a totally dominate eye.
I have center left and shot right. I can shoot with out a dot to good effect but my sight picture is much more stable with one. I shoot low gun olympic rules and I find the dot problematic in some scenarios. Especially targets coming from the left. The dot is less of an issue if I shoot American with gun up.
 
NZClaybuster said:
I shoot from the shoulder of the dominant eye.
I would think it would be better than messing with dots
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And if there is no clearly dominant eye?

I assure you that I do far more than 'mess with dots'.

Things I've learned over time about eyesight; Don't assume anyone else's eyes work the same way yours do. I don't know how many time's I've heard people say things like "you just need to focus real hard on the target" because that is what works for them. I cannot shoot without a dot. I am right eye dominant a lot of the time, but my left eye will pick up the target at will, particularly on long incomers.

A patch is an easy way to allow shooters who could not otherwise shoot with two eyes open to do just that.
 
That's similar to my problem Brad, I'm nearly equally dominate, so I will see both down the barrel and along the side of it simultaneously. So for high house targets I've got no problems. Low house I'll think I'm 3 feet ahead but likely pointing right at.
 
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