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Starting out a young shooter, who's left eye dominant. Got questions..
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<blockquote data-quote="bradleyr001" data-source="post: 1909473" data-attributes="member: 80757"><p>Shoot to your dominate eye. As a kid (my story), I was taught to shoot at age 6, when my dad noticed me holding my head over the stock to look through my left eye when shooting right handed, he switched me to shooting left handed, I never looked back and was expert all but one year of a 24 year Marine Corps career. Shooting right handed guns never bothered me, you just adjust to what you have to do, working the action, etc. I never had a problem with AR's brass hitting me except from other people on the line when hot brass would occasionally make its way down my back, not fun. I also eat and write left handed, but do everything else right handed, all sports are right handed. Eye dominance was something I could not overcome and couldn't hit the broadside of a barn shooting right handed/right eyed, changing to my dominant left eye, I rarely missed anything, and out to 700-800 yards am pretty confident in my ability to hit what I am shooting at. I still have a mix of both right and left handed guns and some of my favorites are right handed, but you just learn to work the bolt and go on, it doesn't slow me down much at all if I am packing and shooting a right handed gun. </p><p></p><p>For the OP, I would definitely teach to shoot to the dominate eye side, it will make understanding the fundamentals that much easier and he will be more comfortable and relaxed when they feel more natural because of the eye dominance. Once he learns to shoot left handed, he can learn to shoot right handed if he wants, but for you and his sake, teach to the dominant eye when just starting out and learning the fundamentals of shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bradleyr001, post: 1909473, member: 80757"] Shoot to your dominate eye. As a kid (my story), I was taught to shoot at age 6, when my dad noticed me holding my head over the stock to look through my left eye when shooting right handed, he switched me to shooting left handed, I never looked back and was expert all but one year of a 24 year Marine Corps career. Shooting right handed guns never bothered me, you just adjust to what you have to do, working the action, etc. I never had a problem with AR's brass hitting me except from other people on the line when hot brass would occasionally make its way down my back, not fun. I also eat and write left handed, but do everything else right handed, all sports are right handed. Eye dominance was something I could not overcome and couldn't hit the broadside of a barn shooting right handed/right eyed, changing to my dominant left eye, I rarely missed anything, and out to 700-800 yards am pretty confident in my ability to hit what I am shooting at. I still have a mix of both right and left handed guns and some of my favorites are right handed, but you just learn to work the bolt and go on, it doesn't slow me down much at all if I am packing and shooting a right handed gun. For the OP, I would definitely teach to shoot to the dominate eye side, it will make understanding the fundamentals that much easier and he will be more comfortable and relaxed when they feel more natural because of the eye dominance. Once he learns to shoot left handed, he can learn to shoot right handed if he wants, but for you and his sake, teach to the dominant eye when just starting out and learning the fundamentals of shooting. [/QUOTE]
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