Left Eye Dominent

[jakuda]

As others have mentioned it all depends on your eyes. Some people have close to equal/shared dominance in both eyes, many people have severe dominance. Others lie somewhere in between.

I used to be strongly left eye dominant, and right handed, and when I started learning to shoot for precision, I didn't feel like altering my stance or head position to use my left eye, so I just used scotch tape, or white occluder attached to my cap.

When I started to shoot self-defense revolvers for practice and kept both eyes open, I found that my right has gained in dominance and is now almost equal to my left, so it's relatively easy to "see" the sight alignment with my right eye.

Unless you plan on shooting precison/accuracy competitions, shoot what feels comfortable to you.

[penguin0123]

If I am left Eye dominant, should be I teaching myself to shoot a rifle left handled?

Yes. I'm left eye dominant and write right handed. When you shoot both eyes open, there will be an awkward moment when you try to align your left eye with your right handed rifle. Learning to manipulate a rifle (conscious skill) is much easier than forcing you to use your non-dominant eye (unconscious skill).

I never had problems manipulating rifles left handed (except rare scoped bolt guns), and never had to buy specialized southpaw accessories (e.g., ambi lower or BAD lever). The only problem I had was with skeet high house. For some reason, my dominant eye switches for high house station 2-4. Even thou it is blasphemous, I just focus on the front bead and break birds fine. I've used a saiga with an RMR, and that fixed the issue. The rest of the skeet squad didn't know whether to hate or love that gun thou.

[Fjold]

My daughter is left eye dominant and right handed and shoots all long guns left handed. She shoots a lot better left handed.

[mshill]

I just ran accross this (left eye dominant, right handed) with one of my daughters friends that we took shooting last week. He did okay with the pistol (cause I told him to shoot with both eyes open) but with the shotgun and rifles he struggled a bit. In the end he forced himself to use his right eye, cause he didn't want to switch to left handed.

[stardunk]

Couldn't you try shooting with CAR techniques? In that system, I think it's actually better if you're cross dominant (left eye/right hand)

[RaiderMike619]

Right handed, Left Eye Dominant.

If I am left Eye dominant, should be I teaching myself to shoot a rifle left handled?

Over the years I have learned to shoot with both eyes open, my dominant eye, the left one, naturally takes over when acquiring sites on my target. I barely found this out a few years ago. I was shooting using my right non dominant eye, with handgun, and my accuracy sucked! After discovering I was left eye dominant...both eyes open shooting put me back in the game. Shooting a rifle is different, if your right handed....as long as you can see your target through your sites, you'll be okay when shooting a rifle.

[Lead Waster]

If you close one eye, then eye dominance doesn't make any difference. With only one eye open THAT is the dominant eye.

With both eyes open, as many have suggested ... you have a problem because your dominant left eye will take over. This is generally a problem with pistols where the gun is out front and the sights are far away.

With a scoped rifle, it's not a problem, the cheek weld ensures taht you can only see out of the scope with one eye anyway, though it's a bit weird.

With irons and a rifle, it's a bit weird but same effect as with scope mostly. With aperture sights, it's again easier than with notched rear sites. But not as bad as with pistols or a shotgun.

Shotgun ... close an eye, use tape, or shoot left. With just one bead up front, it's hard ... well it's hard if you are shooting skeet or trap (as I found out!) since your left eye will take over and you have no rear sight to help out.

For me ... I learned a long time ago (as a kid with a BB gun) to shoot left, even though I'm right handed. It's actually natural for me now to shoulder long arms on the left. Though I shoot pistols with my right hand and I squint. I'm going to try the tape trick and keep both eyes open for pistols.

If you wear over-the-glasses-shooting-glasses, then putting tape on your cheap protective lens shouldn't be a problem.

And if you wear "prescription glasses that cost more than the gun" then for sure wear shooting glasses over them to protect them! Replacing $5 eye pro is cheaper than $500 glasses!

[morrcarr67]

I'm left eye dominate and a natural right hander.

When I joined the Army they found this out and made me learn how to shoot left handed.

I did really well in boot camp and this training has helped me through out my shooting.

I still to this day shoot left handed and right handed and I still do better left handed.