shooting with a scope

I shoot right-handed and am severely left-eye dominant. If I try to look through a scope and leave my left eye open, I literally see nothing through the scope.
 
Keeping both eyes open is a more relaxed condition, if you can do it easily. Not everyone can do it all the time. I find myself closing the off-eye under some conditions.
 
I shoot with one eye open. I honestly didn't even think it was possible to shoot with both eyes open, if I do that then I see the crosshairs and the barrel of the rifle mixed in one distorted image.
 
Shooting with both eyes open does not come naturally to most people. It takes practice. But if you practice a bit, you can probably do it. It pays off by letting your eyes be more relaxed during an extended shooting session.
 
With open sights I shoot both eyes open most of the time. With a scope, it varies, often depending on what I'm shooting at. If I'm trying to hit the target at 400 yards, I usually close my left eye for better focus. Shooting at a 100-yard target I can go either way.
 
One eye here. Just can't seem to get myself to do the both eyes open thing. If I really concentrate I can,but all I do Is target shoot,so no need to keep both open. I think for hunting and such,both eyes is a very important thing to learn.
 
I recommend both eyes open if you can adjust to it. Even more so if you are a hunter as it preserves your peripheral vision and allows you to keep track of what is going on around you. I have seen some guys do really stupid things when the bucks show up and I have seen one run right in front of another to get a new angle for a shot. If the other hunter hadn't seen him in his peripheral it could have been a very bad day for all of us, some more then others.

And you can still shoot both eyes open with a magnifying scope, it just takes a little practice learning to shift your focus without having to close an eye.
 
Two eyes.

If you are having trouble seeing through a scope with both eyes open you need to reconsider your scope. You need something with a more forgiving eye box and more eye relief.

Or, you may be cross eye dominate and need to be shooting from the other side. Happens to a lot more people than we realize.
 
Does me no good to switch sides. If I have both eyes open, my brain almost completely ignores my right eye. Yes, I "see" things but it's almost like the entire vision of my right eye is peripheral.

I required eye surgery when I was about 3 years old. I always assumed that the surgery left my right eye weak and the left eye was "normal". I found out well into adulthood that my right eye is actually 20/20 but my left eye is actually about 20/10. Dr. said he'd never heard of anyone who had that surgery and ended up with 20/20 vision in that eye.
 
Shooting with both eyes open does not come naturally to most people.
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Is it possible that shooting with both eyes open is just as if not more natural then shooting with one eye closed but that most are taught from early on to shoot with one eye closed instead of starting out with both eyes open?

Old habits are hard to break.

Open sites, or a scope with illuminated reticle, I shoot with both eyes open. A scope with a non illuminated reticle I shoot with one eye open.
 
The trick is not closing the eye behind the scope sometime during the trigger squeeze.

If the rifle/scope combination is set up to fit the shooter,the shooter sees the target with both eyes open,and just shoulders the rifle.The scope is brought to the eye.

If a 56 mm scope bell requires high rings and the comb must be low enough to clear an open bolt,then the shooter goes searching for the hole through the scope with his scope eye,and the other may be closed.

There is good reason why the low mount fixed 4 x scope was the standard for decades.

The point was hitting heart/lung shots and not bench rest groups.

I find I can look through a scope longer without my eyes going wobbly with both open.
 
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