In order to call the shot,eyes must be open.My question would be,both eyes? Or if one closes an eye for shooting,then the shooting eye open? Is one or both eyes open preferred? TIA!
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No good reason I can think of to close an eye while shooting. Good reasons to keep both open:
-Closing one eye for awhile causes slight muscle tremors in the face, tremors cause sight picture movement.
-Deprives you of peripheral vision.
For shot calling, I think you need only the eye that's looking through the sight; don't think the other non-shooting eye would help any, open or shut.
QuoteFor shot calling, I think you need only the eye that's looking through the sight; don't think the other non-shooting eye would help any, open or shut.
Agree.
I agree to that.
I'll add that if you're cross-eye dominant (right handed shooter and left eye dominant, or vice versa), you may HAVE to close the non-shooting eye to shoot effectively.
Thank you Gentlemen,thats answers that one for me :)
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For those who are cross dominant, You can still keep both eyes open by tapeing the lens of your shooting glasses on the non-dominant side. Or more simply you can take a piece of paper, slightly taller than the lens, fold the top over, then slide the paper down in your glasses on the non-dom side.
This can give you the benifite of both eyes open and using the dominate eye.
As an aside: I can say from limited personal experience that when shooting in an adrinilin soaked moment, you are hard pressed to voluntarily half blind yourself.
Practice like you play. ;D
Student
My grandson(12 yrs. old) was right handed and left eyed. I taped the left lens of his shooting glasses and he shot that way for awhile at one Appleseed and several trips to the range.
Now he no longer needs the tape and can shoot with both eyes open.
GOD, it must be great to be young and flexiable. ;D
KG
You can train yourself to keep both eyes open.
Your eyes work just like your ears. Assumeing normal function. Notice how you can sit in a restaurant and select who you listen to. You can listen to your tablemate. Or you can listen to the conversation going on behind you. Or the one to the side..........
I believe the term is auditory exclusion.
Your eyes work the same way. We just don't normally practice using only one of them. Especially if the other is open and working.
To practice: Find a small spot some distance from you. It can be a light switch or the guy on TV. With your hand over your non-dom eye and both eyes open, extend the arm on your dom-eye side with the index finger only out. Place the index finger under the spot you are looking at( like a front sight).
Now uncover your non-dom eye. Things get alittle crossed up. Recover your non-dom eye. Keep doing this: Cover, Uncover, cover, uncover. Keeping your finger under the spot. Eventually you will teach yourself to ingore what you are seeing in your non-dom eye.
It took me about 2 weeks of doing this off and on. Now I shoot both eyes most of the time. The only time I have to close an eye is if I am shooting on My "OFF" side. When shooting with my non-dom Eye I must close the dom eye. For now.
Student
I'm one of the lucky ones.
Correct eye dominance.
I used to compete Bench Rest. Watch the wind flags with the left eye, watch through the scope with the right, and made it work. Takes time to learn that.
student, one question for you on training your eyes/mind. When doing this, do you focus on the finger tip or the spot you are pointing?
At the time I did this I didn't give it much thought.
Sitting here and trying it a few times I think focusing on the finger is best.
Partly becaus of rule 4A. But also if you are focusing on the "target" It is hard to tell which of your "2" fingers (front sights) are correct.
If focusing on the finger "front sight" the target does not Double.
Student
Being left-eyed and right handed is a pain. I myself partially close my left eye until my right eye becomes the dominant one, leaving me some periphrial vision to work with.
It doesn't take too much closing to change dominance, about 50% for me, leaving me 50% of my vision in my true dominant eye. Keep testing to see how much you need, sometimes the finger can jump while you check it, so you'll need to close it more.
The only other option would be to learn firing left handed, which wouldn't be too bad if you think about it. If you don't have any training on the other side of your body, you can start from scratch at Appleseed! ;D
Of course, this method works for me, but YMMV.
Quote from: Nickle on October 30, 2007, 01:31:10 PM
I agree to that.
I'll add that if you're cross-eye dominant (right handed shooter and left eye dominant, or vice versa), you may HAVE to close the non-shooting eye to shoot effectively.
I have that problem and I can not focus on my sights without closing my non-shooting eye.
I have a friend who is right-handed & "left-eyed". So I bought him an eye-patch. Now he not only shoots better, but he gets to talk like a pirate.
"Arrr, matey! Use the Six Steps!"
Hey Pat! from Kansas? u going to Texas? let me know
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Both unless one doesn't function ;D
Quote from: Grin Reaper on October 31, 2007, 12:00:20 AM
I have a friend who is right-handed & "left-eyed". So I bought him an eye-patch. Now he not only shoots better, but he gets to talk like a pirate.
"Arrr, matey! Use the Six Steps!"
Talking like a pirate won't get you any booty :D
Any advice for those of us cross-eyed nondominant? :)
Simply close the "wrong" eye, or block it in some way, such as tape over the glasses, forcing the non-dominate eye to do the work.
Quote from: socalserf on December 10, 2007, 06:27:41 AM
Any advice for those of us cross-eyed nondominant? :)
Block the dominant eye, use a scope or learn to shoot with the dominant eye. That's your 3 choices.
You can learn to do the latter. I've seen righties learn to shoot left handed and lefties learn to shoot right handed.
My son is a lefty that shoots a rifle right handed and a pistol left handed, using his right eye for both of them.
Quote from: pat on October 30, 2007, 12:22:21 PM
In order to call the shot,eyes must be open.My question would be,both eyes? Or if one closes an eye for shooting,then the shooting eye open? Is one or both eyes open preferred? TIA!
Blessings
P
Good comments from all responders.
the important thing is, do what ever allows you to have the clearest view of the front sight.
Quote from: Nickle on October 30, 2007, 01:31:10 PM
I agree to that.
I'll add that if you're cross-eye dominant (right handed shooter and left eye dominant, or vice versa), you may HAVE to close the non-shooting eye to shoot effectively.
THats me. Also optics with any magnification require one eye closed.