Right handed, "left eyed"

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joepa

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I have a general shooting question. If a person is right-handed but has a dominent left eye, should he/she:

A. Shoot right handed using dominent left eye
B. Shoot right handed using non-dominent right eye
C. Shoot left handed :eek:

Any thoughts?????
 
Well, I shoot right handed (usually, unless I am practicing my weak hand) and use my dominate left eye. I shoot long guns and bows left handed, though. As far as what you should do, I'd say that is a choice that you are going to have to make. Try it several ways, and go with what works best for you.

BTW -- since most handguns, including revolvers, have controls that are designed primarily to be used right handed, that may be a deciding factor.
 
I have always been right handed and right eye dominant but last year was told my right eye can no longer be corrected to 20/20 vision. Open pistol sights had become blurry and indistinct so this spring I began using my left eye to aim but continue to hold/shoot the pistols right handed. Actually I use a two hand hold with dominant right hand. Has worked well for me and my pistol scores are now back up to where they were before my right eye cratered. Rule #1: When physical problems intervene, use whatever works for you as long as it is SAFE.

Good shooting and be safe.
LB
 
I'm right eye dominant, and shoot pistol left handed.

I keep both eyes open, and use the right eye.

Some shooters with these problems cant the pistol slightly to the side to allow easier sight alignment.

Bottom line is, just bring the pistol up and align the sights on target.
Your eyes are "smart", they'll figure things out for you.
 
I'm going to have to agree with gb_in_ga... shoot right handed using your left master eye. :)

I am right handed with a left master eye and have no problem shooting in this fashion. All it takes is to shift your handgun slightly to the left to align the sights.

Again... like gb_in_ga... I shoot my long guns off of my left shoulder as this prevents me from having to roll my face across the stock to obtain an accurate sight picture.
 
When talking handgun shooting I think you can be fine shooting either hand with either eye dominate.

But when talking shotguns or rifles, seems like most of the in the know coaches say to shoot which ever eye is dominate.
 
I am right-handed, left dominant eye, and shoot long guns left handed. My pistol hold is right-handed, but, since I use an isoceles stance, symmetrical with regard to my eyes, which are both open - presumably visual processing of my left eye data still does the heavy lifting there.
 
Nice to see others like me

I'm just like gb in ga -- always thought I was the wierd one! For me, always use the dominant eye but shoot handguns righthanded. Lefty on the rifles. And I've gotten so used to right handed rifles since childhood (when LHs weren't all that prevalent...hmmm come to think of it, still not today!) - but shooting left handed - the bolt (or actuator/lever in autos) not an issue with me. I do have to remember how the safety works on button types though. :)
 
I can't shoot with both eyes open -- just can't. I shoot right handed because it's my natural movement. In a tense situation, you will always go back to your dominant hand so I think it's foolish to switch to the weak hand because your left eye dominant. Do what I do -- practice a lot. :D
 
Right handed and left eye dominant, and I use both. I just lean my head waaay to the right. Looks funny to others but works for me. :D
 
Shoot right-handed and use your left eye. I've done that way for years. I just bring the weapon a little further to the left and keep my head straight up. Worked ok all those years that I shot on a pistol team.
 
I am in my mid-40's. I was born with bilateral crossed eyes which causes blurred and double vision. The medical standard of care back in the early 60's was to wait on the corrective surgery until six years old or so. I had the surgery when I was six at the Ochsner Eye Institute in New Orleans. However, medicine now realizes that waiting that long causes amblyopia (lazy eye): in order to have any vision at all, the infantile brain learns to suppress the vision from one eye and that eye will usually never recover after prolonged visual suppression of more than a few months. The eye is perfectly functional, but the neurological connections and visual processing in the young brain never developed and never will. Nowadays, newborns with crossed eyes receive surgery within the first few days of life to avoid amblyopia.

So I am right handed, but my left eye is the good one. I cannot see well enough out of the right to read, drive or do much anything else. I am for all intents and purposes, half-blind. What this means is that I shoot long guns left handed, and shoot hand guns right handed using a weaver or isoceles stance. It is a pain in the rear end when my AR-15 and what not ejects the hot brass into my face, even with the deflector.
 
I am another who is right handed and left eyed. And like some of the others above, I shoot long guns left handed but the pistols with the right hand and a slight tilt of the head to make use of the dominate left eye. One thing the others did not mention was trying to shift the dominence of the left eye to the right eye. As a young boy shooter of 7 and 8, I was made to wear a patch (Looking at old photographs, I look like a pirate) on my left eye and shoot long guns right handed and right eyed. It did not work and those who were my mentors soon switched to left handed and left eyed. Quantrill
 
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