Someone asked about this via E-mail, so maybe it's time to go over it again.
Everyone has a dominant hand, for most of us is the right hand. Everyone also has a dominant eye, and it's not always on the same side.
Quick check. Stand up and look towards the corner of the room where the ceiling and walls meet. Point to it with the hand you write with.Close one eye.Did your finger seem to move? If it did, the closed eye is your dominant eye.
Mixed eye/hand dominance is one of the most common problems people have in shooting.Shooting R/H but sighting L/H is a guaranteed %^&*(. "Fixes" have included taping the "Wrong" eye side of one's shooting glasses, closing one eye and even the crossover type stock where one,say, shoots right handed but the stock is bent so the left eye is lined up with the sights.
And I'm not immune to this. Before the teachers at the parochial schools I attended got hold of me, I was probably left handed and left eyed. I'm still a one eyed shooter with BAD handwriting.
Solutions:
There's a couple of ways to address this in the shooting disciplines. I'll stick to shotgunning for the moment. All work, none are easy and guaranteed.
1. Shoot from the same side as your dominant eye. Everyone interested in "Serious" shotgunning should shoot from both sides anyways.Short term problem, long term payoff.
2. Close the off eye. I do this,the disadvantages include losing all peripheral vision and some depth perception. I've got it down to just a wink, to minimize the loss.
3.Train the non dominant eye to be dominant.This is the hardest method, IMO,but some folks do it.
4, Hardware, even tho this is a software problem. The friend who reloads my trap hulls has a device on the muzzle and bead of his trap gun that blocks the view of the bead from his left eye.It's like a little fence paralleling the rib, about 3 inches long. He says that after years of use, he still needs it for trap. BTW, he outshoots me.
A bit of tape on the lens of your shooting glasses to block the off eyes' view would also work, tho I get headaches from this.Some folks can remove the tape after a while, tho they may revert.
I think that about covers it, any questions, please ask them...
Everyone has a dominant hand, for most of us is the right hand. Everyone also has a dominant eye, and it's not always on the same side.
Quick check. Stand up and look towards the corner of the room where the ceiling and walls meet. Point to it with the hand you write with.Close one eye.Did your finger seem to move? If it did, the closed eye is your dominant eye.
Mixed eye/hand dominance is one of the most common problems people have in shooting.Shooting R/H but sighting L/H is a guaranteed %^&*(. "Fixes" have included taping the "Wrong" eye side of one's shooting glasses, closing one eye and even the crossover type stock where one,say, shoots right handed but the stock is bent so the left eye is lined up with the sights.
And I'm not immune to this. Before the teachers at the parochial schools I attended got hold of me, I was probably left handed and left eyed. I'm still a one eyed shooter with BAD handwriting.
Solutions:
There's a couple of ways to address this in the shooting disciplines. I'll stick to shotgunning for the moment. All work, none are easy and guaranteed.
1. Shoot from the same side as your dominant eye. Everyone interested in "Serious" shotgunning should shoot from both sides anyways.Short term problem, long term payoff.
2. Close the off eye. I do this,the disadvantages include losing all peripheral vision and some depth perception. I've got it down to just a wink, to minimize the loss.
3.Train the non dominant eye to be dominant.This is the hardest method, IMO,but some folks do it.
4, Hardware, even tho this is a software problem. The friend who reloads my trap hulls has a device on the muzzle and bead of his trap gun that blocks the view of the bead from his left eye.It's like a little fence paralleling the rib, about 3 inches long. He says that after years of use, he still needs it for trap. BTW, he outshoots me.
A bit of tape on the lens of your shooting glasses to block the off eyes' view would also work, tho I get headaches from this.Some folks can remove the tape after a while, tho they may revert.
I think that about covers it, any questions, please ask them...