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I shoot right handed, and I'm sure that I'm right eyed dominant. I do however use a frosted dot that is sold for shooting, and blink momentarally when hunting just in case my dominance should change occasionally. Thankfully my vision is still reasonably good.
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Drew, you must have started this thread to arouse me from my current torpor!! As an ex eye doc (and looong time shooter / hunter) I find all these vision threads, articles, advice etc, etc to be rather interesting or at least entertaining. Especially since I was blinded in my very dominant / shooting eye nearly ten years ago.
P.S. How is the wonder dog Dirk these days? I will email you to catch up on things. Your hunting opportunities have expanded greatly since I moved...
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A machinist friend of mine made me up a short ribs sighting system like the Carey one to use. His idea was that I could shoot left handed and use my dominate right eye. I found having two ribs and two sight was too busy for me. I kept looking at both sights and ribs at the same time. Had I only one good eye it might have been the perfect solution to shooting left handed using my right eye sight with. I have used several sight blinders over the years to make cross sighting impossible. Some worked well and many were just junk to throw away.
What I find interesting are the central vision stocks you see at auction sometimes. Be fun to shoot with one for a while.
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I feel for you guys that have eye dominance issues. I have never had a dominance shift, that I am aware of. It might be cool to have it once, and recognize it. Then, when I am having a bad day I could blame it on eye dominance shifting.
I believe that it is real, so please don't think I am poking fun at you. It must be very frustrating.
SRH
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I am cross-eyed dominant. I don't know how but I pick things up and automatically know which eye I should be using. A camera left eye, gun right eye, reading well that's an interesting thing. About 10 years ago my eyes started to deteriorate like all of us over 50. To compensate I just used a contact in my left eye for distance vision. My right eye for close up reading, etc with no correction. I became mono-vision. When I hunted I had a special contact for my right eye so it would start focus at the front bead and reach out about 40 yards. With big game I use 15/20 in each eye and adjust my scopes according. Now my right eye had deteriorated to the point I need a special contact for reading. The problem I'm having is the focal point from reading to using a computer screen is different and I haven't got the right contact yet.
My point in all of this is that I have trained my brain to accept different ways of seeing with each eye and I think if I can do it many of you should also be able to do it and train your brain to use the eye you want to use for the specific purpose.
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I am cross-eyed dominant. I don't know how but I pick things up and automatically know which eye I should be using. A camera left eye, gun right eye, reading well that's an interesting thing. About 10 years ago my eyes started to deteriorate like all of us over 50. To compensate I just used a contact in my left eye for distance vision. My right eye for close up reading, etc with no correction. I became mono-vision. When I hunted I had a special contact for my right eye so it would start focus at the front bead and reach out about 40 yards. With big game I use 15/20 in each eye and adjust my scopes according. Now my right eye had deteriorated to the point I need a special contact for reading. The problem I'm having is the focal point from reading to using a computer screen is different and I haven't got the right contact yet.
My point in all of this is that I have trained my brain to accept different ways of seeing with each eye and I think if I can do it many of you should also be able to do it and train your brain to use the eye you want to use for the specific purpose. Interesting post, and interesting thread. I've had a lot of eye issues the past 25 years, starting with presbyopia, then astigmatism, cataracts, and then the artificial lens scarred over. I can't shoot iron sights on anything. If I get glasses to focus on the front bead, the rear will be a blur, and the target will really be a blur. But I've never had dominance issues, and thankful for that. I think it's due to the fact that my left eye is weak and lazy - it only opens about 75% as wide as the right one. I have a picture of my great, great grandfather, who died decades before I was born, and he had the same lazy left eye. I had never thought of it as being a good thing before reading this thread.
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Everything I do in life I do as a right hander. I am not cross eye dominant but so far as I can tell trying all the simple dominance tests I have ever seen I simply do not have a strong dominant eye, they seem to be for the most part about equal. This does make it a bit difficult to shoot with both eyes open as I am never quite sure which eye is going to take over at any given time.
Even in my younger days when I still had excellent eyesight I was never good with open sights on a rifle, I could do well with a proper peep, just couldn't manage those open ones. Now I use a scope exclusively for rifle shooting.
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I'm a southpaw and shoot accordingly, but...I most-likely started out right-eye dominant. Made for some fairly crappy shooting situations in my youth. Over time, I seem to have become cross-dominant. I do know that if I shoot a SXS, the left eye becomes the dominant one (something to do with that broad plain of the barrels?). If I happen to pick up an O/U then I seem to get some confusion with my right eye. I have learned to ignore that confusion for the most part, and single-tube weapons aren't a problem. It appears that my boy has exactly the opposite situation. I'm starting him as a lefty to (hopefully) avoid the problems I've experienced.
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I'm right handed with a dominant left eye. I shoot long guns from the left shoulder and handguns with my right hand using my left eye, all I do with handguns is tilt my head to the right. I've never really grasped why so many people go to such lengths to avoid shooting this way
Last edited by Chantry; 05/14/18 10:36 AM.
I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
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