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I'm right handed, left eye dominant. I am testing out different styles to see what works best, if I shoot both eyes open I tend to tilt my head right which most intrustors tell me you should just keep your head straight and move the gun left a bit to line up with your left eye. I am also toying with the idea of closing my left eye and just shooting right eye. Any of you have different hand/eye dominance?
 
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I did the retrained my brain to be right eye dominant. It took some effort by shooting with both eyes open and closing the left eye the realigning the sights. Now when I draw and have both eyes open the right eye has the sights aligned
 
Zedhound said:
I did the retrained my brain to be right eye dominant. It took some effort by shooting with both eyes open and closing the left eye the realigning the sights. Now when I draw and have both eyes open the right eye has the sights aligned
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I am jealous. Did you use any particular exercises or training? How long ago did you get it to switch?
 
I took the better part of a year. Exclusively shooting close range.

Most times bringing the gun up with both eyes open shooting then closing the left eye and adjusting the sights to the correct position shooting a round the lowering the gun and repeat. It took a lot of effort.


If you can't shoot then find a spot on the wall or a object you like and stand like 20 feet away. Take your hand and make a ring with your fingers around the object then close your left eye and move your ring so you can see your object with the right eye through the ring
 
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Consider rolling the gun over to the left to align the sights to the left eye. It's the reverse of shooting weak hand (left), were you roll the gun over to the right to align the sights to the right eye. It looks a little gangsta, but, I've known others that says this works for them.
 
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georgel said:
Consider rolling the gun over to the left to align the sights to the left eye. It's the reverse of shooting weak hand (left), were you roll the gun over to the right to align the sights to the right eye. It looks a little gangsta, but, I've known others that says this works for them.
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Looks ok to me.

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Not cross dominant, but I have significantly better vision in my left.
It really posed no difficulty shooting right, but trying to shoot left with a handgun took a lot of conscious lining up at a target, mostly dryfire, and focusing on seeing with my right eye, if I didn't my vision/focus would literally toggle back and forth rapidly and in live fire I couldn't hit anything.
I still haven't cured that wing shooting left-right crossing targets, would probably require applying something to blur my left lens.
 
Yeah, I knew someone was going to post a version of that hommie sight thing...

Seriously, it's not a full rollover. Just enough to line up the sights and maintain a positive hand/arm positioning. If you don't roll over a little and you try to align with the opposite eye, you'll create a weak hand position.

Actually, people should consider practicing closing or shielding their dominate eye to experience it, should they get injured and can't use their dominant eye. Plus, it's handy around right hand corners. ;)

This picture is someone doing a weak hand exercise.
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I'm left eye dominant. But sometimes my right eye want to fight. It is only noticeable when I'm shooting a target sheet that has rows of sub targets on it. Like a 3x2 or 2/1/2 set up. Then sometimes when shooting the top right, my right eye will focus on the left target that already shot.
 
My wife had an eye dominance issue as well: left handed, right eyed. We ended up covering her right lens with opaque scotch tape. That allows her to shoot both eyes open, allows light through the lens, but re-trained her brain to use the left eye. It took a lot of shooting/training, but it did work
 
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So funny how opinions vary... I was just talking to a very experienced competition shooter last night who showed me the opposite to move the gun and not tilt my head whuch is what i do instinctually and it sounds like in the video he also says it's an option just to close your left eye and become naturally right eye dominant because it's the only eye open.
 
I hit about as much with them both open as closed. I hit every thing I shoot at, just not everything I aim at.
 
Right handed/right eye dominant.
Because of fuzzy close-up vision, if I'm trying for x ring pinpoint stuff I have to close my left eye.
I have ghost ring sights on a G23, (an edc/self defense rig) and I can shoot great with both eyes open using those. Not sure why that is, but I can hit 6" circles on the quick draw no problem. Plenty good enough for it's intended purpose.
 
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