I need advice about sight picture.

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cs138

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Whenever I draw my pistol I see the front dot and see thru the rear sight and slide. If I close one eye I can get a propper picture but with both eyes open it can take me as long as 5 or six seconds to actually see both sights together. If I dont shut one eye I sometimes find it impossible of seeing both sights at once all I see is a blur or I see both sights through each other as my 2 eyes compete. If I have been shooting awhile its not a problem but when I first try to aim its very difficult. I have considered ghost ring sights but now I wonder if I would lose them like standard ones. I realy need advice because this is a big problem for me.
 
Keep practicing. It took time for you to develope the habit of aiming with one eye, it will take time to learn to focus with your dominant eye while keeping them both open.
 
Yeah mayby Im just rusty. I was unable to shoot for a few years and have just recently started back up with it. I dont remember ever having this problem before though, pistol shooting used to come naturaly to me. Thats what I cant understand. I dont think my eyes have deteriated any. But they keep blurring up until I close that one eye.
 
Try going in reverse order. Close the non-dominant eye, obtain a good sight picture and then slowly open the closed eye while maintaining your sight picture.
 
I'm in a similar dilemma (used to be, anyway). I'm right-handed, but my left eye is strongly dominant. Used to get a lot of funny looks from my buddies at the range with my right cheek on my right shoulder and my arms across my body. Until I blew the "X" out of the target anyway. :D

I did basically what blades advised you to do: Close your "off" eye, get your sight picture, then open your "off" eye. That helped me a LOT. Hopefully it'll work for you, too.
 
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