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Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Dquailhunter] #1131295
10/31/14 02:44 AM
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I'm exactly like Shaw. I started shooting with both eyes open 2 years ago. This has really improved my groups. Like Shaw, in low light I have to squint my left eye to make my right eye focus on my pin, then I can slowly open it back up.

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Shaw] #1131334
10/31/14 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted By: Shaw
I'm right handed and left eye dominate as well. I shoot right handed with both eyes open. In low light I have to squint my left eye or it will take over. I shoot all of my guns right handed as well. I

shoot a pistol right handed and aim with my left eye. I thought I was the only one weird enough to do that, Sulli. grin


Same here

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1131369
10/31/14 04:00 AM
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I'll give it a shot this weekend. It may take a little getting used to though

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1131383
10/31/14 04:10 AM
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Thanks for the input everybody. I am going to go with shooting left handed with a bow. Guess that means I have to buy a new one,what a shame. Whose selling any left handed Hoyt bows?lol

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1131413
10/31/14 04:40 AM
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Right handed, left eye dominate here. When I started shooting as a kid it just came natural. Bow right hand use right eye. Handguns right hand, left eye. Long guns,left hand, left eye. I always thought it was natural for a right handed person to shoot a long gun left handed because your strong hand steadies the long gun, with your weak hand mashing the trigger. I never had accuracy problems. Never knew of the dominant eye deal until much later in life. Made me go hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: DaBreeze] #1131421
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When I was about 9, my dad got a me a Ruger M77 .270 bolt action(only rifle I will ever shoot and still shoot to this day) and when we went to the woods to sight her in I was shooting right handed but rolling my check over so that I was looking through the scope with my left eye. Luckily, my dad said "what the hell you doing boy" before I shot instead of letting me learn the lesson the hard way. I told him this is how I shoot my daisy red rider bb gun and hit every soda can I shoot at. He just laughs and replies "this has a little more kick than a bb gun son." Did one of the many eye dominance tests and it proved that I was left eye dominant. I always thank him to this day for not letting me shoot with my checked rolled over to use my left eye through the scope. He said hell, I didn't have health insurance to pay for you breaking your nose.

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1131587
10/31/14 07:44 AM
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I used to to do the same thing with long guns when I was younger, right handed and aiming with my left eye. I was a holy terror on birds with my Red Ryder. It wasn't until my paw paw carried me shooting when I was about 12 or 13 that anyone noticed what I was doing.

He had a Marlin semiautomatic .22 with one of those skinny Tasco rim fire scopes on it. This was my first time to shoot a scoped rifle. When I went to shoot it I was trying to look through that scope with my left eye and of course I couldn't see squat. I said "Paw Paw, I can't see through the scope."

His reply was "Dammit boy, use your other eye." grin

It wasn't until about 1998 when I bought a PSE bow that came with an instructional video that I knew anything about having a dominant eye. I started to make the switch several times to a lefty bow, but the one thing that always stopped me was the Buckmasters Top Bow shoot. You have to load and shoot fast. That just ain't happening for me shooting lefty. Plus since my fall I am no where near as strong on my left side as I am my right. I probably can't pull 50# with my left arm.


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Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: TR62] #1131818
10/31/14 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted By: TR62

Originally Posted By: Sulli
Left eye dominant and right handed but have always shot bows, rifles and shot guns left handed. Pistols I shoot right handed but use my left eye. It's what has always been natural/comfortable to me.


^^^^This is me too. I even shoot pool left handed. Everything else is right handed.


Didn't think of that but now that you brought it up, same here. Man I am one jacked up son of a gun.


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Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1133063
11/02/14 12:12 AM
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Eye dominance is only a problem when shooting both eyes open. If you close your dominant eye you will still hit where you aim.

Re: Right Handed/Left Eye Dominant [Re: Bowhunter11] #1133385
11/02/14 08:37 AM
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Me too
I shoot a gun left handed and now right handed. I'm left eye dominant.

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