Comments on: Feeling a little sinister http://gunnuts.net/2009/03/26/feeling-a-little-sinister/ Gun info by shooters, for shooters Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oneiron http://gunnuts.net/2009/03/26/feeling-a-little-sinister/#comment-7804 Oneiron Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:46:03 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=2638#comment-7804 Handedness in shooting is not as important as finding one's dominant eye. If you grip left-handed and your dominant eye is right, you'll have more trouble than if it was left-left side, and vice versa. Mnay shooters who discovered the correct dominant eye adjusted their shooting grips and improved their overall ability. How to find dominant eye: Hold your arms at length in front of you with your hands forming a circle of about two inches in diameter. With both eyes open, focus on a small spot or item in the distance. Then close one eye at a time. With the open eye if you can see the spot, that is your dominant eye. Handedness in shooting is not as important as finding one’s dominant eye. If you grip left-handed and your dominant eye is right, you’ll have more trouble than if it was left-left side, and vice versa. Mnay shooters who discovered the correct dominant eye adjusted their shooting grips and improved their overall ability.

How to find dominant eye: Hold your arms at length in front of you with your hands forming a circle of about two inches in diameter. With both eyes open, focus on a small spot or item in the distance. Then close one eye at a time. With the open eye if you can see the spot, that is your dominant eye.

]]> By: Sailorcurt http://gunnuts.net/2009/03/26/feeling-a-little-sinister/#comment-7769 Sailorcurt Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:14:27 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=2638#comment-7769 My problem is that I'm legally blind in my right eye. I'm left handed so that normally doesn't bother me but it pretty much precludes just shooting right handed. Even when I have to shoot "weak side", I have to use my left eye...no choice, I can't see anything other than vague shapes and splotches of color out of the other one. And it gets VERY frustrating trying to find left handed gear that will work for me. My problem is that I’m legally blind in my right eye. I’m left handed so that normally doesn’t bother me but it pretty much precludes just shooting right handed. Even when I have to shoot “weak side”, I have to use my left eye…no choice, I can’t see anything other than vague shapes and splotches of color out of the other one.

And it gets VERY frustrating trying to find left handed gear that will work for me.

]]> By: ExurbanKevin http://gunnuts.net/2009/03/26/feeling-a-little-sinister/#comment-7764 ExurbanKevin Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:19:26 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=2638#comment-7764 And then there's we freaks who are cross-eye dominant. Makes our transitions from pistol to rifle a little goofy-looking... And then there’s we freaks who are cross-eye dominant. Makes our transitions from pistol to rifle a little goofy-looking…

]]> By: Texas Jack http://gunnuts.net/2009/03/26/feeling-a-little-sinister/#comment-7763 Texas Jack Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:35:25 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=2638#comment-7763 Read an article by a professional shooting instructor (combat style) that STRONGLY recommended developing skills with both hands. I'm right handed, but left eyed (can't line up the sights on a rifle with my right eye), so I shoot a handgun both - make that all four ways: left hand only, right hand only, left firing right supporting, and right firing left supporting. His reasoning was, "What if you take a hit in your right arm and can only shoot with your left?" I prefer "What if proper cover is available only if you can fire left (right) handed." The only real left-handed weapon I own is a 20 Ga. semi-auto, so I have learned to ignore the ejected casings from my semi-auto rifles. The bolt actions are a bitch though. Aim, fire, change hands, work the bolt, change hands, aim, fire, change hands, etc. Slow. And clumsy. One good thing about it, though, you do learn to make that first shot count. Here's an interesting "game" for you to try. Set up three targets. Have someone stand behind you and call position, order, and hand for a set of shots. Examples: "Standing, left, center, left, right, right, left hand only" or "Kneeling, right, left twice, change hands, center twice." Shooter follows the instructions. To make it a competition, swap with your shot caller. You can also insert reloads into the series if you wish. (From that same article.) Read an article by a professional shooting instructor (combat style) that STRONGLY recommended developing skills with both hands. I’m right handed, but left eyed (can’t line up the sights on a rifle with my right eye), so I shoot a handgun both – make that all four ways: left hand only, right hand only, left firing right supporting, and right firing left supporting. His reasoning was, “What if you take a hit in your right arm and can only shoot with your left?” I prefer “What if proper cover is available only if you can fire left (right) handed.”
The only real left-handed weapon I own is a 20 Ga. semi-auto, so I have learned to ignore the ejected casings from my semi-auto rifles. The bolt actions are a bitch though. Aim, fire, change hands, work the bolt, change hands, aim, fire, change hands, etc. Slow. And clumsy. One good thing about it, though, you do learn to make that first shot count.
Here’s an interesting “game” for you to try. Set up three targets. Have someone stand behind you and call position, order, and hand for a set of shots. Examples: “Standing, left, center, left, right, right, left hand only” or “Kneeling, right, left twice, change hands, center twice.” Shooter follows the instructions. To make it a competition, swap with your shot caller. You can also insert reloads into the series if you wish. (From that same article.)

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