Cross-dominant eye shooting aid

[AJMD429]

These look like they might help those with this affliction....

https://www.ammoland.com/2017/02/shoot- ... ood-casey/

[crs]

Maybe, but just using the proper gun that works well with the dominate eye works well also.
My daughter is right handed but left eyed (for lack of a better way to say it) and all went well with a single barreled 20 gauge and then a double barreled 20.

But when we got to bolt action rifles, her mom's Ruger .243 was clumsy for her. Life would have been simple had I already been shooting leverguns, but I was still using bolt guns. So we went shopping and found a left handed Savage 110 in .243 WCF with a custom stock that was just perfect for deer, turkey and such. It shoots half inch groups.

When it came time for an elk rifle, it was more challenging, but we found a like new Weatherby Mark V 7MM W Mag with a Leupold scope at the Fort Worth gun show for only $800. It seemed the first owner never cleaned out the copper and it shot 6 MOA. I cleaned the bore and it is now a 5/8 inch MOA rifle (if cleaned every 12 rounds) and she took her mule deer with one 400 yard shot, killing the deer and impressing the guide.

PS she also found it easy to shoot leverguns left handed.

[Sixgun]

Thanks Doc...I need to look into that. I'm right handed but shoot a rifle left handed and a handgun right handed. Always been that way...I also write left handed.

My right eye is 20-400 and never told my parents until I was about 12. I thought that's the way it was supposed to be. So, from about 6 years old I learned to shoot a rifle and write left handed. Something how the brain works.

Well, on the other hand I manage to hit what I want to so maybe I won't look into it. -----6

[AJMD429]

I had a second-cousin I was teaching firearms basics and he was enthusiastic but couldn't do anything 'left-handed' even with an ambidextrous gun, and yet was so strongly left-eyed he leaned across the gun to use his left eye with his right hand on the trigger (did fairly well though!). He couldn't even close his left eye without closing the right one, even without a gun involved...!

We switched to handguns so he could use right hand and left eye, but the next day, he really wanted to shoot my nephew's M-1A......and who would want to impede that....!!

So.....I found a scrap off of the many boxes of ammo we had gone through, folded it, and slipped it over the left lens of his glasses, forcing him to use his right eye. It worked really well except for once in awhile falling off...

[piller]

I am neither eye dominant, and have to close 1 eye for best accuracy. My son is left eye dominant due to Strabismus. We both could benefit from this.

A friend has a CZ bolt action in 5.56, and it is the left handed model. Tony is left handed. I have found that I can shoot it left handed just as well as I do right handed.
A few years ago, I had a friend who is a former gun maker adjust my old Remington 870 Wingmaster 20 gauge to where it shoots right where my son's left eye is looking when shouldered on the right side. If he will keep his head down, he can hit what he is shooting at. With a rifle, he insists on holding his head so that his left eye is using the sights. His right eye works fine, but when it turned inward, his brain switched to the left eye. After the surgery, he had to wear an eye patch for a few hours each day. He can see fine, but his brain never went back to using the right eye as the primary eye. Those filters may help a lot.

[GunnyMack]

Here is a simple trick- trap shooters have been doing this forever. It works with shotgun,rifle and pistol shooting.

On your shooting glasses, be it left or right eye (depending on which side your are trying to 'stop' the vision) have someone place a 1/2" long piece of scotch tape on your off eye lens, the trick is to place it so it just obstructs the upper half of the eye. If right dominant then tape left lens. Another trick is a magic marker but this is usually a last resort as it's normally permanent and plastic lenses don't like acetone!
I have worked with many kids learning trap, once the eye dominance is resolved scores go up!

In my case I'm so right eye dominant that I can shoot everything with both eyes open, even scoped guns!

[Old No7]

Hi all:

This info from a posting of mine from 2 years ago might help too...

They're CHEAP but work great!

Old No7

Hi all:

Below is a posting that I just made in response to a poster over on a shotgun forum. The "new dots" that I am using on my left lens (am right-handed) have helped my shotgun shooting SO MUCH that I wanted to repeat the info here to benefit this gang!

We ALL have lever-action shotguns -- don't we?!?!?

"I have done a lot of research on this and wanted to get some feedback from some guys on here. I am left eye dominant but shoot right handed...

...I don't really want to walk around with tape on my glasses all of the time."

You might want to try these inexpensive colored dots, as they are working really well for me -- at less than a penny each -- and I shot 2 rounds of trap and 6 rounds of sporting clays on 4 different days, all using the same red dot! (I would just unpeel it and move it to another set of glasses that's in my shooting bag.) The red looks vermillion when on my glasses, and it "unfocuses" my left eye "just enough" so that it cannot take over and dominate the right eye.

See-through dots (Small).jpg

I don't have true cross-dominance, but my shotgun instructor (just last month, and it was my first formal shotgun lesson in 45+ years!) said my left eye was "almost as strong" as the right, which was an issue especially on targets starting low and fast from the left.

These see-through dots have really helped me -- and my scores were up by 15% to 20% on those recent shoots I mentioned above. And I had more confidence and more fun!!!

You can buy them for very little money on Amazon or look for them at Staples or other office supply stores.

Be sure to get the "see-through removable" ones! (Not the solid colored dots...)

Unlike a piece of black electrical tape, as the dot is put near top of my lens positioned so it blocks my left eye only when I mount the shotgun, the dots are not a problem to wear while walking around the range. In fact, we walked quite a ways on that sporting clays course, up and down some woods trails too, and the dot on my lens didn't interfere with my normal vision when looking straight out my lenses.

Try them... For little $$$ you have little to lose and MUCH TO GAIN!!!

Good luck!

[jeepnik]

Hmm. But I still thing the Nicholas Cage school of cross eyed dominance training is the best.