Right handed, but left eye dominate.

[FordDieselSteve]

Originally Posted by TonyF

You guys should try not to pull the pistol toward your left, especially if using the Weaver stance. All movement should be limited to your head "turning" (not tilting downward) as Chauka mentioned.

Thanks Tony,I will try that the next time I head to the range.

[ReefBlue]

Center Axis Relock teaches right hand/left eye or left hand/right eye shooting. It works great.

Nothing wrong with doing it that way.

[jrbib24]

I am also right handed and left eye dominant. I fixed it by just shooting firearms left handed. It was just natural for me to shoot this way when my father was teaching me to shoot as a kid. I buy left handed rifles and holsters that are LH for my pistol. This was the easiest solution for me.

[Mity2]

Consider your self lucky.

I'm right handed, right eye dominent, and my right eye have stigmetism...
And my stigmetism is bad enough to see double, but not bad enough to be able to correct it with glasses or contact lenz

[markheck1]

Originally Posted by TonyF

You guys should try not to pull the pistol toward your left, especially if using the Weaver stance. All movement should be limited to your head "turning" (not tilting downward) as Chauka mentioned.

that's pretty much what I do, both eyes open, turn head slightly to the right

ETA: now that I think about it, I usually turn my whole body slightly to the right

With rifles...i use a scope, and close my good eye I just can't do anything well left handed

[Morel42]

Originally Posted by Mity2

Consider your self lucky.

I'm right handed, right eye dominent, and my right eye have stigmetism...
And my stigmetism is bad enough to see double, but not bad enough to be able to correct it with glasses or contact lenz

Oh, contacts are the WORSE when you have a high power prescription when you try to focus... I really need to look into laser surgery

[CCinPA]

Originally Posted by Morel42

Oh, contacts are the WORSE when you have a high power prescription when you try to focus... I really need to look into laser surgery

With all due respect please think very carefully and do all your research before resorting to laser eye correction. I had examined it for myself and decided against it due to the false statistics that are published and also due to 2 friends who have had it and are very displeased.

The statistics say nobody has ever gone blind from it and that means immediately post op, not several days down the road. I personally spoke with a lady who lost her cornea as a direct result of this procedure. See when they used the microkerotome to slice the epithelium on top of her eye it was not adjusted properly and it cut down into her cornea. It sense went necrotic causing her to have a cornea transplant so she did go blind in that eye.

One of the two friends of mine has such a dry eye issue that his vision is usually worse and he suffers from the pain, itching and stinging of very dry eyes. My other friend suffered the dry eye issue but that improved after about a year, not totally but it did get better. He suffers from not being to drive at night because the correction zone is smaller than his dilated pupil so traffic lights and head lights create star bursts for him. His doctor tried to dilute an eye drop that would constrict his pupil to help allow him to drive at night but he does not get that long of a duration from the eye drop.

I don't want to scare anyone but all 3 of the people I speak of had their services performed by what are considered the most top notch and experienced places in the area. After my research I decided upon reverse geometry lenses.
What this is, is very similar to Laser eye correction without surgical intervention.
The same topography is done to your eye but instead of surgery a custom hard lens is made for your eye. This lens reshapes your cornea like the laser does but it is not permanent. I place the lenses in my eyes at night and sleep with them. The comfort is just fine. I remove them in the morning and I have for the last 3 to 4 years have 20/15 vision in both eyes. If I put them in every other night then I have 20/15 for the full first day and it reduces to about 20/25 by the end of the second day.

[Longshot]

Originally Posted by rtrageser

I also am left eye dominant, because i lost the sight in my right eye. I didn't actually lose it totally, but it is very bad. I had a detached retina. I shoot both eyes open for pistol, but try to leave the gun in the center of my stance. As for rifle, I shoot left handed now. It's really very easy to do when you HAVE to do it. I am just about as quick on the draw with a rifle(say pulling up on a running deer) as i was right handed. I can shoot shotgun both left and right-handed, but i also shoot these both eyes open.

Ron

I am in the same boat, All I have is peripheral vision in my right eye due to a paint ball injury. I have a nice scar on my retina so I have this big black spot in whatever I look at with my right eye. I shoot my rifles left handed and it is very comfortable. With my hand guns, I just keep square to the target and just keep both eye's open. I am thinking that the black spot in the center of my vision helps to not distract the other eye (if that makes sense) so I don't get any double vision. I started out twisting my torso and bringing the pistol more to my left, but I seem to have better success being square to the target. Just my thoughts, I won't really know how much it helps until I can stop flinching when I pull the trigger.

[Mity2]

Originally Posted by Morel42

Oh, contacts are the WORSE when you have a high power prescription when you try to focus... I really need to look into laser surgery

Yea I know what you mean. My prescription is R -5.00, L -5.75.
mix that with stigmetism, iron sight on my AR is pretty much useless.

Even red dot and scope aren't that much better.
With Scope, i see one dark ratical, and fainter ratical.
Red dot to my right eye look more like comet hyakutake...

[Suburban]

Originally Posted by Lycanthrope

Full Isosceles stance. Both eyes open.

It takes a while for some people to learn to shoot with both eyes open, but it should be even for either eye. A piece of tape over the non dominant eye can help you train your vision. I used to squint the non dominant eye for about a year until my brain became trained.

Lycanriflesaredifferentandyouneedtoshootlefthanded thrope

Same here. I don't even think about it anymore.

I still shoot rifles like a regular righty. Although, in a pinch, I can shoot lefty. With 90+ percent of rifles being right-hand biased, it wasn't worth the effort to relearn how to manipulate with the left hand. YMMV.