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I’ve done it a few times. It also costed me a nice deer a few years ago.

I’m left eye dominant but shoot right handed. My distance vision started slipping a few years ago so I would wear a real low power contact in my left eye only. That way I could still see a little up close with my right eye and definitely see distance better. Well I was in a ladder stand in some thinned pines during the rut and a doe came in on my 3 o’clock with a shooter behind her. She had me pegged and he was locked in on her. No way for me to get turned on her so I eased my gun to my left shoulder. When I looked through the scope with my left eye at the buck, not only was he not clear but he was way smaller and looked like he was 200 yards away when he was really only about 70.

I kept trying to make it work but it was a no go. Well the doe finally had enough and spun and ran away and he followed her. The next year I used both contacts and adjusted the bell on my scope to account for contact lens. Problem solved.