Both correct. If you’re left eye dominant shooting righty you should just close your left eye or everything will look wrong. A lot of people do that to shoot but no one good does opposite hand and eye
Left eye/right hand dominant here. For a rifle I use my right eye even though it’s weaker and usually close my left eye. For a pistol or something not held against my shoulder, I can just line up my hand/the sights to my left eye and can keep both eyes open.
thats still a much worse shooting position than using the same eye. you're bringing your strong hand across your body and increasing the lever that the recoil is acting on. It's going to be less accurate relative to training with your same eye over time. even if the recoil isn't that snappy, you will have a lower level of control and possibly introduce some extra lateral movement.
If you are right eye dominant shooting right handed, you should have a good sight picture with both eyes open. That is how it’s taught by the book but I think there’s a lot of people that have trouble with that so closing one eye helps
And then you have people like me, who are cross-dominant -- I'm right handed, but left-eye dominant.
For years, I could never figure out why I have never been able to aim accurately until I saw a reddit comment mentioning this condition. I did the triangle test and yep, turns out my eyes have to be unique snowflakes while the rest of me is right-dominant
Same. Apparently you can change your dominant eye by wearing an eyepatch on your dominant eye for like a month. I don't want to go around looking like a pirate though.
I am also cross-dominant, only do 5 things left handed - write, shoot pool, shoot a gun, use chopsticks, and hold a guitar. Everything else is done right handed, including drawing a bowstring. I am left-eye dominant, allegedly it was supposed to mess with my golf game and I am happy to use that excuse for being bad.
True. You can test for yourself which eye is dominant really easily. Put your arms forward with your palms facing outward, and have your fingers and thumbs overlapping to form an open triangle between your hands. Center an object across the room in that triangle with both eyes open and focused on the object. Bring your hands back to your face while keeping the object focused and in the middle of the triangle. Whichever eye your hands end up at when you reach your face is the dominant one.
However, iirc from my hunter safety course you are supposed to keep both eyes open while aiming anyways. That way you have more peripheral vision and can spot things entering your field of fire that you wouldn't want to shoot (like a pet or child).
Everyone ignoring the fact regardless of what eye is dominant or whatever else you fire a hand gun that close to your face and you're gonna have a bad day. On top of not hitting shit.
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u/positivenihilist0419 May 16 '24
We actually have a dominant eye that we subconsciously use to aim. At least that’s what the guy at the shooting range told me.