Eye dominance
Personally i m a cross-dominant ,and what i taught was preferring the master eye than the master hand,so i lived with this in a long-term context.
Considering accuracy i m just curious to know other opinions and how important you think that factor is .
How many of you noticed a difference while you are shooting each eyes on the same target?
Do you believe the weak eye affects your shooting performance?
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I am left handed and left eye dominant, but I grew up shooting right handed. What I find is when shooting, I have a tendency to close my left eye. On occaision I try shooting left handed but find such to be awkward.
I have been teaching myself to keep my left eye open. The only time it is a problem is when I am shooting pistol and I take too long for the shot and my left eye tries to take over, causing dual images.
it helps a lot.
At least your theory can explain why recently i discovered that my no -dominant eye works like the other because it turns dominant without knowing about this for a long time.
In fact i have two dominant eyes right now but prefer that one on the same side with my “sensitive-st” trigger finger.
With muscles in the body, the right side of the brain controls the left side muscles; the left side of the brain controls the right. But with your eyes, both hemispheres of the brain control parts of BOTH eyes. That’s why eye dominance has nothing to do with right or left handedness. And eye dominance can be stronger in some people than others. And if you suffer from strabismus or are slightly cross eyed, eye dominance can be exaggerated. That’s why changing the eye you sight with works for some people but not for others. Hope this helps.
I was a range master for a time and responsible for teaching those who had trouble qualifying. One of the first things I did was to find out if the shooter was aiming with their dominant eye and if it was the same as their shooting/gun hand… this was all pistol/revolver shooting. Most of them had no idea which of their eyes was dominant until I had them do the little test. I found that those who shot with their right hand but aimed with their left eye (or the reverse) often had problems hitting the target consistently. Some overcame the problem; others never did. A few of them changed to aim with their non-dominant eye, mostly with good results. With proper training and practice, the issues are usually resolved. The coordination of sight, brain function and muscle control is a complicated affair.
So, does anyone know what causes one eye to be dominant? And why can a right hander be left eye dominant?
I was lucky, if there can be any luck drawn from the experience, in that it was my left eye that I lost vision in, and I am right handed so I only lost the ability to shoot with both eyes open.
RC
Randomly i shoot with handguns.
So…My point is “rifles”.
When i was young i usually try to shoot by the right hand and i m a left eye dominant.
My grandfather teach me to shoot on the left hand and for the rest of my life i did this until a year ago.
Until then most of my favourite rifles are LH or ambidexious but i follow someones advice and every time going to shoot something i carry a heavy weaponry LH rifle and an ambidexious “pellet gun”, just to use it on the weak side eye in order to use on it.
Also i made some exercises and put some tape on my shooting glasses on the master eye side and wearing them daily in my free time (when i m at home at least 1.5 hours per 24h in summary).
Yesterday i was reading at 615 yard Pepsi Challenge video (by the way…Gongrats RC)and suddenly i remembered that Charlie have one eye.
So i suspect that probably Charlie was already a good shooter but maybe his eye switched “super”dominant after he lose his other eye and that factor maybe help him to be an even better shooter.
While i was thinking about this i try to test my self and…..Unbelievable…my right eye not only turn dominant but my left eye keep as it is(dominant).
Right now i dont know how well i m shooting from the right shoulder but i intend to borrow my buddys RH stock and doing some work on my .308 tomorrow while i m going out there practicing my shooting abilities.
To be honest i dont really feel very excited for such a sweeping change,because even Vasily Zaytsev could be zealous in front of me right now ,but always believed that my right trigger finger is more sensitive and can get a better trigger control from it.
my brother is left eye dominant and right handed. He grew up shooting right handed right eye, but in the marines switched to left, he always scored very well on the range.
For many it is a terrible burden KQ. Especially with handgun shooting.
One of the little boys I adopted was CED and I suppose I could be called cruel, but when he started shooting when he looked down the sights with his left eye, I gently put my finger in it. He was 5 years old and learned quickly to adopt to the correct shooting posture with handgun and rifle.
He has since told me there could have been better ways to correct the problem 😛 , but I know of no others that overcame it with handguns at least, rifle yes by shooting with their weak side. For you two to have overcome it, knowing your shooting level that is pretty amazing.
He went on to finish in the top 5 of his USMC class.
Regards,
Roachcreek
Allow me to throw the extreme into the mix and maybe it could shed a little light 😯
I wore contacts for over 15 years until my pres ription got to bad for them. During that time it was explained that one prescription would no longer help me both closeup and distant focus…But, one last possibility would be to have one lens for closeup and the other for distance. The down side is that most people that try this solution can not adjust to it and soon opt for bifocals.
Having a tendency to go where no wise man dare, of course I would make myself adopt. Hell, I’d been used for a lot worse by the bitch’s I married :banghead:
Besides, I’m a shooter and no stranger to the dominant eye syndrome.
💡 So, why not have the right eye focus close for right handed pistol focus 💡
So 3 months later… it became tolerable 😎
BONUS TIME . Not only did I have a sharp image of my handgun sights, I also had a sharp image of the target ❗ ❗
It. got to where I couldn’t get a perfect score at yearly qualifications because the instructors only counted holes they could define. Although I fired the correct number of rounds and there were no holes outside the target area, they preferred not to think the older guy might have put several through the same hole :3:
So, for the close range shots, I had to deliberately try to avoid shooting tac tac at the same already perferated area’sof the target 😳 My targets began to look like a shot gun patern but every shot counted ❗
Dominant EYE…You better believe it helps.
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Some shooters use an eye patch covering the non-aiming eye. The patch (or sometimes just a small sticky on the lens of your shooting glasses) allows the brain to “see” the image only through the aiming eye, AND, the patch allows the non-aiming eye to relax, so that muscles in the lid are not working so hard. It doesn’t sound like much, but if you try to keep one eyelid closed for a long time, during a range day, you will find that the non-aiming eye gets tired. Shooters who keep both eyes open don’t have this problem. Aiming with one eye can help some shooters. Putting a patch over one eye is not always practical though, especially in combat training where target acquisition and identification is essential.
As an amateur astronomer, I often close my non-viewing eye but more often, I cover it so that I can leave the eye open and relaxed but seeing only black. I tried stereoscopic viewing with unsatisfactory results because my right eye (dominant) has a much stronger prescription (does not see as well) as my left eye. For astronomy, I view with my left eye for much clearer views. When shooting, I aim with my right eye which is dominant (and because I am right handed).
In the population, about 2/3 are right eye dominant; 1/3 left eye dominant. But a very small portion of the population has no eye dominance; they can aim with either eye with equal results.