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<blockquote data-quote="KYpatriot" data-source="post: 1025161" data-attributes="member: 48028"><p>Ok maybe I was underestimating the degree to which some people are eye dominant. I shoot everything right handed, but use my left eye for pistol aiming. Which doesn't matter of course for pistol. The only time I have noticed cross dominance bring a factor is shotgun shooting, where both eyes open is critical and the target is in focus and the sights are peripheral. In that kind of shooting it is very possible to get crossed up because either eye can be used to aim and you aren't assured of being " in plane" with the target because your focus is on the target instead of the front sight like it is ( or should be) in handgun shooting. But any shooting where the front sight is in sharp focus, like iron sight rifle or handgun, or with a scope where the retical is in focus, eye dominance should be irrelevant. I certainly would not advocate shooting weak side with anything where you use sights just because of eye dominance, only shotgun. Even then, the top shotgun shooters simply handcap the dominant eye if they are cross dominant with a piece of scotch tape or special shooting glasses with a dot on it, instead of shooting weak side. </p><p></p><p>Of course, weak side shooting is a good skill to practice anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KYpatriot, post: 1025161, member: 48028"] Ok maybe I was underestimating the degree to which some people are eye dominant. I shoot everything right handed, but use my left eye for pistol aiming. Which doesn't matter of course for pistol. The only time I have noticed cross dominance bring a factor is shotgun shooting, where both eyes open is critical and the target is in focus and the sights are peripheral. In that kind of shooting it is very possible to get crossed up because either eye can be used to aim and you aren't assured of being " in plane" with the target because your focus is on the target instead of the front sight like it is ( or should be) in handgun shooting. But any shooting where the front sight is in sharp focus, like iron sight rifle or handgun, or with a scope where the retical is in focus, eye dominance should be irrelevant. I certainly would not advocate shooting weak side with anything where you use sights just because of eye dominance, only shotgun. Even then, the top shotgun shooters simply handcap the dominant eye if they are cross dominant with a piece of scotch tape or special shooting glasses with a dot on it, instead of shooting weak side. Of course, weak side shooting is a good skill to practice anyway. [/QUOTE]
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