Posted by Thomas on August 05, 2001 at 23:07:09:
Hi,
I am right-handed,
using my right hand for pistol shooting with both eyes open.
My dominant eye
is my LEFT eye !
Any suggestion as to improve my sighting better?
Many
thanks in advance
Thomas
Posted by Robb Frazier on August 08, 2001 at 19:13:56:
I'm right handed
and left eye dominate. I have been shooting bullseye for approx. 3 years. I just
can’t the pistol over to align with my left eye. Canting works better than
trying to force the right arm/hand over to the left eye. My cant is about the
same as when I extend my hand for a handshake. It's very comfortable and I do
have higher scores when using my left eye as opposed to my right eye.
Posted by Warren on August 06, 2001 at 08:25:05:
I think the best thing
you can do is:
1. Wear some sort of glasses that allow you to block vision
to your left eye.
2. Don't worry about it any more.
You can quite
successfully change to left eye with right arm, but it means you'll have to
radically change your stance. This works well for some people, not others. But
simply taking the dominant eye out of the equation makes your right eye the
only, thus the new "dominant" eye.
I think way too much emphasis is put on
which eye is dominant. My left is not only dominant, but much stronger than my
right, but with the correct prescription I can maintain a comfortable stance and
honestly haven't worried about it for over 20 years.
Posted by geo. anderson on August 06, 2001 at 17:22:48:
I think USAS
pistol coach Erich Buljung would say:
1. Use whichever eye you prefer; your
left eye will work fine.
2. Don't worry about it any more.
At least
that's what he has said in clinics I have attended.
I have the same
situation and shoot left-eye, right-hand. In my case, my left eye is also a bit
sharper so I would not want to switch. Erich did tweek my stance so I wasn't
looking so much out of the corner of my left eye.
HTH,
Geo. Anderson
Posted by Bubba on August 08, 2001 at 19:15:22:
In my post below, I
mention the use of a regular pair of glasses for pistol shooting.
I think
that I got this idea from one of Geo. Anderson's post some time ago.
Credit
should be given where it is deserved, and not to someone who just remembered it.
So, Thanks George, I have used your idea for a couple of years not, and I
wish I had thought of it myself.
Respectfully,
Bubba
Posted by Bubba on August 06, 2001 at 09:40:17:
Of course Mr. Potter is
right as usual.
But if you are a bit hard headed like me, here's a cheap way
to prove him right. Go the nearest Wal-Mart, Target, Osco, what ever, except
K-Mart. Get a pair of those cheap glasses that they sell off the revolving rack.
I don't mean the half glasses, or granny glasses, but they will have some full
size glasses there too. Get the correct magnification so that you can see the
front sights. If you do not want or need magnification, simply pop out the right
lens. Then Take some sand paper to the left lens. Use sand paper until lens is
opaque. Use sand paper on both sides of the lens, so that it does not reflect
any back lighting that might be present. My Varga glasses are gathering dust,
because it is just too easy to slip these glasses on and off to change targets,
or make adjustments to the gun. I wish someone made shooting glasses that did
not have the behind ear temples. In one of my many jobs as a younger man I made
glasses of the American Optical branch in Springfield, Mo. I can adjust the
shooting glasses so that there is no need to wrap them around the back of the
ear, but can't find suitable temples.
Respectfully,
Bubba
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