Keep at it Ted. As you said thinking about shooting when doing it doesn't work well. I know because I do it all the time. Best of luck in your switch. I hope your MD has prescribed some anti-inflamitory for your hands, I understand. Sometimes Fiochi makes 3/4 oz 20 ga loads. As I said, best of luck.
Aleve works about as well as anything I’ve tried. I just try not to take it daily, or, more than once a day.
Ted, L.Brown, I don't know for sure, but you might benefit from practicing with a patch over the dominate eye, if it is on the non-shooting side. I am naturally left-handed but shoot right-handed due to my right eye being dominate. I have shot several deer and squirrels left-handed with a scope which seems to mitigate the dominate eye problem. Maybe a 1x scope or red dot would help, with practice. Mike
Mike, My right eye was always my dominant eye. It also had better vision, always. I just shot left handed, because I was left handed. Winked the right eye closed at the shot for 50 years. I was never the worst shooter on any squad I was on, it worked well enough.
Now, I shoot right handed, because the vision in the left eye has deteriorated too much to shoot with. I’ve worked a bit with a coach, informally, but he doesn’t seem to grasp that it feels very unnatural to hold the gun right handed. He suggested that if I really want to move forward I sell or give away the left handed shotguns, as they would likely be an impediment to going forward as a right hander. I did do that, there are plenty of right handed guns here.
It will be too cold to shoot, here, this weekend. I might take the boy to the club and blast away with the handguns, we haven’t done that in a while. Switching eyes with the handgun was no problem, just line up the sights with the right eye, holding left handed, and poke holes in the paper.
Well going on 79 I feel aches and pains as much as anybody. And I've had two complete shoulder replacements and still have 100% strength and mobility in both. (Be happy to share my learning experience with anyone going through that operation).
But rather than Aleve or Tylenol or whatever, before golf or shooting I use Bayer Back&Body 800 mg Aspirin. It is basically aspirin mixed with caffeine and is an age old French recipe now marketed by Bayer.
Ted, you are an inspiration and an example of just not stopping. Life throws up all sorts of challenges. You either move forward or sit in a chair. Thanks.
I used aspirin for many years, but, find I tolerate the every 8 hour doses of Aleve (related to aspirin) better than the every 4 hour doses of aspirin. Depending on what is in my stomach, regular aspirin can really tear me up.
The aspirin does work well for me. Tylenol does not. Never has.
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