shotgun/ left eye dominant
10-28-2006, 09:15 PM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Byron Center, MI
Posts: 88
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
I'm a righty with a dominant left eye. I shoot left handed. I've been shooting too long to change. I was shooting an 870 but the empties kept landing in my lap or in the crook of my right arm. I bought a Browning BPS which ejects out the bottom and love it. They do offer a youth sized model too.
10-28-2006, 09:44 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Delaware county,NY
Posts: 280
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
I'm also left eye dom/right handed.Never had a problem with right handed guns.Even when I was in the army I shot that way.Tried changing,but couldn't train the right eye to take over.Finally had sergent told me to which back.SaidI shot better that way than most right hander's ever though of shooting.Shot 38 out of 40 on my final test.All my guns are right handers except my winchester model 94.Its pre 64 and it top ejects so it just throws the empties over my head.
10-29-2006, 11:31 AM
#15
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
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Ithaca mod 37 or the Browning will solve your problem, as will any o-u or sxs and don't forget the single shot, which is the best training tool anyway. Helps young shooters learn to hit what they shoot at.
Ithaca mod 37 or the Browning will solve your problem, as will any o-u or sxs and don't forget the single shot, which is the best training tool anyway. Helps young shooters learn to hit what they shoot at.
10-29-2006, 12:05 PM
#16
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Posts: 1,345
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
Guys I know everybody is different. But I've had the same 10/22 rifle and 870 shotgun since I was 12, maybe even before. I stand nearly 6'2" now and at no time, then or now, has shooting left-handed ever been a problem for me with either. Lord knows my form and the positions I've shot in have been all over the charts since I was a kid.
Its funny the thing I hate most about shooting left-handed actually comes from SxS and O/U. After all these years those little levers on top never seem to learn. They must be pretty dumb
Its funny the thing I hate most about shooting left-handed actually comes from SxS and O/U. After all these years those little levers on top never seem to learn. They must be pretty dumb
10-29-2006, 03:50 PM
#17
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
ORIGINAL: Troutman10
I am a lefty shooter and have an 870 that is a righty and ejects on the right. I don't have any problem ejecting shells or anything. It might depend on the gun though. Just my .02
I am a lefty shooter and have an 870 that is a righty and ejects on the right. I don't have any problem ejecting shells or anything. It might depend on the gun though. Just my .02
The ejecting shells are not an issue with a pump action, lever action, or bolt action. But with a semi-auto, yeah... there is a chance of getting biffed by an ejecting shell case. I remember my dad teaching me to just angle my right elbow and forearm down a little bit and that was all it took.
Butch A.
10-30-2006, 05:12 PM
#18
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: North West Arkansas
Posts: 422
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
First shot, it is not a patch, it's a sticker the size of your pupil.
Try this: Close your right eye,pick a smallobject in the house (like a door knob), bring the ball of the left index finger as close to your left eye as possibleto cover the object, don't remove the finger yet, now open the right eye,with finger in place and both eyes opened you will have normal vision, but the Left Pupil is blocked and forces the righteye to be dominate and still have peripheral vision in the left.
I use a small price sticker the size of my pupil on the center of the lense.
First shot, it is not a patch, it's a sticker the size of your pupil.
Try this: Close your right eye,pick a smallobject in the house (like a door knob), bring the ball of the left index finger as close to your left eye as possibleto cover the object, don't remove the finger yet, now open the right eye,with finger in place and both eyes opened you will have normal vision, but the Left Pupil is blocked and forces the righteye to be dominate and still have peripheral vision in the left.
I use a small price sticker the size of my pupil on the center of the lense.
firstshot
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10-30-2006, 05:33 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: New England
Posts: 811
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
I have found that over time, I have automatically compensated for being wrong eyed (right handed/left eye dominant). That said, if my son is left eye dominant, I will start him right off shooting left handed.
I think it's a great idea to look at the O/U or even Side by Side option; or even single shot. That way, if every he wanted to shoot right handed, despite his strong left eye, you/he won't have to buy a new gun.
Good luck
I think it's a great idea to look at the O/U or even Side by Side option; or even single shot. That way, if every he wanted to shoot right handed, despite his strong left eye, you/he won't have to buy a new gun.
Good luck
10-30-2006, 07:17 PM
#20
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: shotgun/ left eye dominant
ORIGINAL: firstshot
It works! Well I'll be d--m. Now I got to pick me up some shooting glasses, a price sticker& some clays and drag out the old JC Higgins 12 guage pump!! I could always hit those coming at you or going away shots, but the crossing shots were always tough, even shooting with the left eye closed. Gona have to wait till after deer season though!! LOL
firstshot
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Make your first shot count!
ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
First shot, it is not a patch, it's a sticker the size of your pupil.
Try this: Close your right eye,pick a smallobject in the house (like a door knob), bring the ball of the left index finger as close to your left eye as possibleto cover the object, don't remove the finger yet, now open the right eye,with finger in place and both eyes opened you will have normal vision, but the Left Pupil is blocked and forces the righteye to be dominate and still have peripheral vision in the left.
I use a small price sticker the size of my pupil on the center of the lense.
First shot, it is not a patch, it's a sticker the size of your pupil.
Try this: Close your right eye,pick a smallobject in the house (like a door knob), bring the ball of the left index finger as close to your left eye as possibleto cover the object, don't remove the finger yet, now open the right eye,with finger in place and both eyes opened you will have normal vision, but the Left Pupil is blocked and forces the righteye to be dominate and still have peripheral vision in the left.
I use a small price sticker the size of my pupil on the center of the lense.
firstshot
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Make your first shot count!