Anyone have cross eyed dominance or know someone that does?

[flw]

If you have cross eyed dominance or know someone that does this is one technique for resolving the issue without changing which hand holds your gun. See

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPMuO3K4MM&list=UUqagEqTF87SfrmfER0AtuUg

[Getzapped]

Im right hand left eye. My tip if the day is keep both eyes open and focus on thr front sight.

[Murph]

Left handed,right eye dominant. Shoot rifle right hand, and pistol either hand. Was told to use same side eye/hand

[Kimbergal]

Right handed, left eyed. I shoot pistol by putting the gun in front of left eye--like Gomez. No tilting gun. I shoot rifle left handed.

[BIGDEESUL]

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

[djmarkla]

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

How is that accomplished?

[djmarkla]

I am left handed right eye dominant. I can use either hand (Catholic School) but I was told it would be better to use my left hand if I could.

[BigRat]

I can say I definitly lessened my left eye dominance being right handed. I was having a lot of trouble with my pistol shooting, I started shooting with a piece of scotch tape over the center of my left lens of my safety glasses. About 6 months later I no longer needed the tape for my pistol shooting. Now my shotgun shooting, I still end up needing the tape, but I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be about it. I'm finding the cross dominance thing is a lot more common then I once thought, as my wife also has the same issue.

 

BigRat

[flw]

Using tape on ones glasses at the range can help, as long as you can get over using the tape, over time. Otherwise if practicing for self defense, there will be no time for tape when you need it most.

[Paints-n-cows]

I am left-eye dominant and right handed. I shoot rifle and shotgun right handed and pistol mostly right. However, I can shoot any one of the three types left-handed.

 

When shooting a pistol right-handed, I don't really think about it but may use either eye.

 

I don't tilt any weapon nor do I have an issue with inaccuracy.

[AJR]

If your shooting a handgun and have both eyes open, it's about a half inch move left or right.

[TyGuy]

I'm left eye dominant. I shoot pistols right handed left eyed and long guns left handed left eyed.

 

Not a problem.

 

 

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[BIGDEESUL]

 

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

 

 

How is that accomplished?

From what I hear, you can accomplish it in as little as a weekend. Just wear a pair of glasses. (Clear or sunglasses), and cover one lens with translucent tape (the scotch tape that is hazy white instead of clear) in front of your dominant eye. Use the glasses all day all weekend, so your dominant eye is able to sense light, but doesn't get enough detail to be useful. Your brain will begin to use the other eye as the dominant one.

 

Sometimes it can be accomplished in a weekend, sometimes you may have to work at it over a period of days or on and off for a few weeks. All depends on you.

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

 

[djmarkla]

 

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

 

 

How is that accomplished?

From what I hear, you can accomplish it in as little as a weekend. Just wear a pair of glasses. (Clear or sunglasses), and cover one lens with translucent tape (the scotch tape that is hazy white instead of clear) in front of your dominant eye. Use the glasses all day all weekend, so your dominant eye is able to sense light, but doesn't get enough detail to be useful. Your brain will begin to use the other eye as the dominant one.

 

Sometimes it can be accomplished in a weekend, sometimes you may have to work at it over a period of days or on and off for a few weeks. All depends on you.

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

 

Maybe I'll give it a try. my left eye is better without correction (as compared to my right) any way.

[TyGuy]

Or watch that movie about the Apache pilots. They do it in there too.

 

 

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[Glock21]

Using tape on ones glasses at the range can help, as long as you can get over using the tape, over time. Otherwise if practicing for self defense, there will be no time for tape when you need it most.

Use chapstick - on the inside half (towards the nose) of the dominant eye lens. You only coat the inside half so as not to interfere with your peripheral vision. Wipes right off when you're done.

[LYU370]

I'm right handed, left eye dominant. I remember seeing a couple of videos some years ago. One said to tilt your head instead of the firearm as this guy proposes, the other said to turn your head slightly so your dominant eye is in line with the sights. I've tried both ways and prefer tilting my head to the right, sights line up and I'm dead on. Turning my head reduced my peripheral vision on the one side which is why I didn't like it as much. Shooting a rifle, I end up closing my left eye.

[skinnyb82]

I'm right hand, foot, eye dominant however I'm ambidextrous when it comes to actions that do not require fine motor skills. As a child, my parents and doctor believed I was left handed, then believed that I'm ambidextrous because I would use both hands when doing certain things, not sure what exactly. I could shoot left handed if I wanted to....or needed to. I hold a hockey stick left handed, can wear a left or right handed baseball glove and actually catch baseballs. I read something about hand dominance not correlating with eye dominance...maybe it was foot dominance.

 

I never shoot with one eye closed. Not even rifles with magnified optics or tube scopes. Not how I learned to shoot and closing my left eye really jacks up my peripheral vision. In HS class they were trying to pound the whole "shoot with both eyes open" into our heads.

 

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[ragsbo]

I have trained several folks who were cross eyed dominate including my oldest boy. What I have always done with great success is to teach them to shoot the pistol isosceles style (both arms locked out straight) and just move the gun slightly so the sights line up with the eye they want to use. No canting needed. It has worked for everyone I have used it for.

 

Only time I suggested canting it was when shooting one handed and using a slight cant to align the arm better or to get the gun in the left hand to line up with the right eye.

[TyGuy]

When I shoot pistol (right handed left eyed) I just move the pistol over to the left more. I don't cant it.

[junglebob]

I can say I definitly lessened my left eye dominance being right handed. I was having a lot of trouble with my pistol shooting, I started shooting with a piece of scotch tape over the center of my left

lens of my safety glasses. About 6 months later I no longer needed the tape for my pistol shooting. Now my shotgun shooting, I still end up needing the tape, but I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be about it. I'm finding the cross dominance thing is a lot more common then I once thought, as my wife also has the same issue.

 

BigRat

 

I understand that cross eye dominance is much more common in women.

[TyGuy]

I have trained several folks who were cross eyed dominate including my oldest boy. What I have always done with great success is to teach them to shoot the pistol isosceles style (both arms locked out straight) and just move the gun slightly so the sights line up with the eye they want to use. No canting needed. It has worked for everyone I have used it for.

 

Only time I suggested canting it was when shooting one handed and using a slight cant to align the arm better or to get the gun in the left hand to line up with the right eye.

You typed that while I typed my response. That's EXACTLY what I do, and it's really not an issue.

 

I am left handed and shooting pistol left handed would be fine, but all the controls are set up for you righties, so I have shot pistol right handed for years and years.

[cnwfan3]

I'm right handed, left eye dominant and have never had an issues with accuracy with pistols or rifle. With rifles, I close my left eye and use my right. With pistols, I shoot with both eyes open and move the pisol slightly to the left to line up with my left eye. Never had any issues doing that. Have been shooting that way my whole life.

[Getzapped]

 

I can say I definitly lessened my left eye dominance being right handed. I was having a lot of trouble with my pistol shooting, I started shooting with a piece of scotch tape over the center of my left

lens of my safety glasses. About 6 months later I no longer needed the tape for my pistol shooting. Now my shotgun shooting, I still end up needing the tape, but I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be about it. I'm finding the cross dominance thing is a lot more common then I once thought, as my wife also has the same issue.

 

BigRat

 

I understand that cross eye dominance is much more common in women.

 

My wife and daughters are same eye/hand, my sone and I are cross.

[albike]

I am left eyed and right handed for the most part. When I was young, I shot rifle and shotgun left handed. Got a Ithaca pump shotgun to throw the empty shell out the bottom instead accross my face. I though that was my only problem. Later, I lost my left trigger finger in an accident and switched to right hand shooting with little issue, as I am right handed for most things. I still using my left eye.

 

I didn't know this was an issue until my CCL class. Still don't feel it is an issue. I generally shoot with both eyes open.

I am nearing 70 years old, so there are other eye issues starting to show up now, and my right eye is slightly better. I may have to use you methods to switch eyes for that reason in the future.

 

Al

[BIGDEESUL]

 

 

 

 

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

How is that accomplished?

 

From what I hear, you can accomplish it in as little as a weekend. Just wear a pair of glasses. (Clear or sunglasses), and cover one lens with translucent tape (the scotch tape that is hazy white instead of clear) in front of your dominant eye. Use the glasses all day all weekend, so your dominant eye is able to sense light, but doesn't get enough detail to be useful. Your brain will begin to use the other eye as the dominant one.

Sometimes it can be accomplished in a weekend, sometimes you may have to work at it over a period of days or on and off for a few weeks. All depends on you.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

 

 

 

Maybe I'll give it a try. my left eye is better without correction (as compared to my right) any way.

Might as well give it a try. If it can be accomplished in a short period of time, you won't have to deal with it anymore. Better than having to tilt, or shoot in weird positions.

[Brad O.]

I'm right handed, left eye dominant and have never had an issues with accuracy with pistols or rifle. With rifles, I close my left eye and use my right. With pistols, I shoot with both eyes open and move the pisol slightly to the left to line up with my left eye. Never had any issues doing that. Have been shooting that way my whole life.

same here.

[Jen-in-Normal]

Left handed and right eye dominant. I shoot long guns right handed and started shooting handguns left handed. Then I found out I shoot better right handed, so switched. I am going to try out canting a bit though. Sure can't hurt.

[SleepingBirdDog]

 

Or you could work on it and change your eye dominance.

 

 

How is that accomplished?

From what I hear, you can accomplish it in as little as a weekend. Just wear a pair of glasses. (Clear or sunglasses), and cover one lens with translucent tape (the scotch tape that is hazy white instead of clear) in front of your dominant eye. Use the glasses all day all weekend, so your dominant eye is able to sense light, but doesn't get enough detail to be useful. Your brain will begin to use the other eye as the dominant one.

 

Sometimes it can be accomplished in a weekend, sometimes you may have to work at it over a period of days or on and off for a few weeks. All depends on you.

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

 

 

I've done it. I'm right hand, left eye. Went to the range a bunch of times and after closing the left eye and focusing on the front sight slowly open the left eye but don't left the focus change. Takes work, but now I don't have to close my left eye or shift the gun (if shooting handguns).

 

Now if I could just do something about the astigmatism...

[bigdudez25]

If I focus on the front sight, I'll see 2 targets. If I focus on the target, I'll see 2 front sights. So instead of closing one eye, I've learned to keep both eyes open and ignore the "left" front sight.