Support hand thumb position...

[rodralig]

My High School English Teacher was using "pinhole glasses" to help strengthen her eye muscles as she put it.
Years later I picked some up to try.

Was thinking that they "might" help you train with both eyes open.
They do restrict peripheral vision and overall vision.

If you can find a sweet spot for right eye to see sights and block for left eye over time it might train your brain?
Seem to help when I looked at sights/target left handed.
Do not know how dominant my right eye is.

Just a thought, have no idea if it will help or hurt your training.

I've read about those. Thank you for the suggestion.

I am right-handed but left-eye dominant. For my shooting the prior years, I would align my pistol to my dominant eye (left) and squint my right eye. And this was regardless of distance, as long as they are sighted shots (ie., using the front/rear sight). I just can't clearly/precisely focus on the front sight without squinting...


However, a few months back, I did this to my shooting glasses as per recommendation from @RoundEye. See the tape on the non-dominant lens?



So, been dry practicing and shooting with this setup...

And before I knew it - I can now shoot with BOTH eyes open!

More so, am now able to "switch" to target-focused shooting (albeit, still practicing)... Which is a topic for a different thread...




_

[Tahoeshooter]

I think this is mostly true.
This is how I was taught 50 yrs ago.
I have now changed as to the photo with parallel thumbs, but I'm not sure I shoot any better.
IF you look at a bunch of professional shooters, you will see that there is a variety of stances and grips.
What works best for you does not necessarily work best for me.
And changing a style does not necessarily improve your shooting.
But, it doesn't hurt to try.

Same here. Most pistol shooting in the early days was with pistols so the semi-auto variations are relatively new to me....last 10 years or so.

Lately I've been trying the different thumb positions. Support hand thumb facing forward, in contact with front of slide release. But that position is a little uncomfortable to me because it forces my hand to have to tilt down more.

Yesterday with a 28oz 1911 9mm I even tried one handed, old school formal. Guess what, my groups were about the same as 2 handed. I'm not that great of a pistol shooter...I practice at 25'. Out of 9 rounds, 4 in the same enlarged hole, + 3 or 4 other holes within 2". On more than 1 gun actually.

The groups translate at 100 yards...I hit a 12" square plate more than half the time once I know where they're landing and adjust POA. (2 handed)

I don't know if my groups enlarge because of when I decide to actually pull as I'm trying to stay on bullseye, or if it is a result of small hold variances within the string. But experimenting is fun!

[Tahoeshooter]

One thing that is informative about hold vs. when you pull the trigger is shooting a beefy 22LR pistol. A Ruger Mark IV target or something in the 30oz weight range. I have P226 with 22LR slide. No recoil. My groups are always better with that. 10 rounds in one enlarged hole. 22LR is one of the most fun rounds to shoot IMHO.

[foothillman]

I am right-handed but left-eye dominant. For my shooting the prior years, I would align my pistol to my dominant eye (left) and squint my right eye. And this was regardless of distance, as long as they are sighted shots (ie., using the front/rear sight). I just can't clearly/precisely focus on the front sight without squinting...


However, a few months back, I did this to my shooting glasses as per recommendation from @RoundEye. See the tape on the non-dominant lens?



So, been dry practicing and shooting with this setup...

And before I knew it - I can now shoot with BOTH eyes open!

More so, am now able to "switch" to target-focused shooting (albeit, still practicing)... Which is a topic for a different thread...




_

That is the best way to do it.
Did you us the tape to only block the handgun or every thing right of the front sight?
As training continues you could easily adjust the tape position and size.
Using painters tape for easy adjustments to start.

Was resoldering some surface mounted resisters and noticed my eyes getting tired.
Thought it was the old mercury vapor bulbs used for lighting, wrong...eyes getting older!
Since then started to look into what eyesight really is.
When you have eagle vision going toward gopher vision it becomes a WTF.
What our brain does or ignores is fascinating.
Dominant eye has nothing to do with clarity or right/left handed.
It is about which eye sends more information to the brain, as I understand it.

[Vinnie Boombatz]

I get the pinhole glasses and tape over the non-dominant eye (I actually used to wear an eye patch as a kid you help correct the strabismus, which didn't work and had surgery for it twice later on as a late teen and early adult).

My problem with these two options is you're not going to have a chance to pop on your pinhole glasses or rip off a piece of tape and place it over your non-dominant eye if you're in a life or death situation/home invasion, etc. Sure, if you're competing that a totally different thing, but for now I'm going to just stick with closing the non-dominant eye and using a really easy to pick up front sight. Have some Trijicon sights coming that have a really obnoxious orange phosphorescent front sight and essentially blacked out rear sight. I've found my eyes sometimes get distracted with bright dots on the rear sight and distracts my eye from focusing on the front sight.

[neouser]

I think a lot of different styles will work. All depends on the individual. For me, Todd Jarrett's style worked best and I find that I do well following his instructions.