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Options for left eye dominant - right handed shooters?
Hi looking for a little help or experience. I’m left eye dominant pretty strongly, with astigmatism in my right eye and vision has been corrected by lasik a number of years ago so I see 20/20. I look through my red dot on my pistols just fine with both eyes open looking at the target. Troubles with my rifles. I’m running a trijicon Mro hd w/ 3x magnifier. Shooting right handed I cannot see the reticle with both eyes open, have to close my left eye to pick it up (with or without the magnifier). Switching to left handed shooting I can see through with both eyes open to the target perfectly.
I guess the question is will a prisim or a holo optic work better for me trying to shoot righty. Or am I doomed to compensate or have to switch to lefty? Thanks for any responses. Last edited by Varno; 04-21-2022 at 7:36 PM.. |
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I'm left eye dominant and right handed. I also have astigmatism and esotropia (which results in me seeing double/two different sight pictures if I keep both eyes open when looking through any optic, iron sights, etc).
Here's my solution and what I do, so pay attention... Are you ready? ...I close my left eye and I magically become right eye dominant. Works with any of the sights I use be it an RDS on my shotgun, iron sights on my handguns or a 1x prism sight or LPVO I have on my AR's.
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Yes, my 1x prism scope has an etched reticle with an adjustable diopter and can attest this really helps.
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Trust me, I would, too! For me it’s just the way it is and have learned how to deal with it and accept it and move forward. To add on top of all that I recently started wearing glasses with progressive lenses. They also added some prism into my lenses to help reduce the double vision but even while wearing glasses I still see two different sight pictures. It is what it is, and the last two times I was out at a class I shot better than a buddy who is ex-SWAT and another who is a retired MP and made it to the finals in a man on man steel shoot at the end of class.
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Options for left eye dominant - right handed shooters?
We tell our cross-dominant students to try shooting rifles with dominant and non-dominant hand to figure out what works for them.
My right eye astigmatism is so high that I cannot use wraparound frames because of the lens curve. But I am so strongly right hand dominant that I cannot shoot with my good eye because my left arm/hand just won’t do it. I failed at trying to learn keyboards and drums because my left hand always tried to follow my right hand. So I just have to find sights I can work with - RDS with very small dots and etched rifle scopes are my go to. Last edited by ronlglock; 05-02-2022 at 6:50 PM.. |
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