bgcole

I searched before posting this and did find one similar, but that OP was for rifles....

I Learned how to shoot rifles and shotguns using my right eye....I am also a bow hunter and my peep sight is my right eye (shoot a matthews if anyone cares). Scopes and bows i have no problem with both eyes open once they focus in...

Something about the sights on my glock is messing me up though. I am having a really hard time keeping my left eye from taking over. I THINK i could probably just shoot with my left eye dominating but it leaves me in a kinda funny stance. I CAN shoot while keeping my right eye dominating but i have to really focus on my eyes, which is not what i need to be focusing on. Focusing on the front sight is all i need to focus on but the left eye keeps taking over bluring the FS....

Maybe a few hundred rounds will sort it out?

Any ideas?

I mean i could do the eye patch with a hole driving a jeep around an AF base like that one movie but would rather not...

GunnyBunny

I'm left eye dominant too.

I shoot rifle and shotgun right handed and sight with my right eye.

I shoot handgun right handed keeping both eyes open, but sighting primarily with my left eye.

Practice, practice, practice!!

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dwyermw

answer is practice, and more practice. Many shoot left eye dom with a right hand hold. I shoot left handed but do eveything else right handed due to left eye dominance.

doctruptwn

You all can solve this problem. Go to the drug store and buy a cheap eye patch. Wear it when you are shooting at the range. This will solve your problems over time.

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limatunes

A very simple and profound understanding is that if you close an eye.. BINGO... you only have one eye left with which to sight and therefore it is your dominant eye.

My husband is right handed and left-eye dominant and he struggled with this for years, even attempting to learn how to shoot with his left hand.

We finally went to a defensive pistol class where the instructor taught that for cross-dominant shooters, the best thing is just to close one eye to take the shot and open it again after the shot to look around and reevaluate the situation.

In combat you get tunnel vision anyway and while you are dealing with a threat you can't be focusing on something that's coming from left or right anyway, so for that split second when you need to sight and shoot, close the troublesome eye, shoot, reevaluate and continue as needed.

It was like music to my poor husband's ears. Finally, the battle was over. He still shoots right handed, but just closes his left eye briefly for that moment when he needs to shoot.

Problem solved.

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shooterX

I too have this issue and still try to shoot with both eyes open, however, more and more find myself shooting with my left eye closed. Only issue I have is my vision is actually better in the left eye, which I believe is how this started for me.

highoctane

I know a guy thats right handed, left eye dom. He just cants the pistol a little (not the 90 degree gangsta stuff) and shoots with his left eye.

nedrgr21

+1 to highoctane - that helps a bunch.

If you want to take the time to really improve, take ten min/day to dry fire with both eyes open. It will be necessary at first to close your non-dominant eye for a second to pick out which set of sights/target is the real one, but with practice your brain will learn which is which automatically. It will take some dedication - a LEO firearms instructor said it took him 6 mos to get to the point where he thows the gun up and he sees the correct sight picture instantaneously - when he shoots double taps, the brass is only about 3 in apart in the air. The advantage is he keeps both eyes open to evaluate the situation and quicker target reacquistion. I've started on this and my groups decreased and my followup shots are quicker.

mi2az

I was taugt the same thing is to cant the pistol. I shoot right hand but left eyed dom. I tilt the pistol towards the left so My dom eye is looking down the site

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PastorPack

For handgun, I close my right eye.

For shotgun and rifle, I am actually learning to shoot lefty.

So far so good.

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