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When will I ever learn
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<blockquote data-quote="wapiti13" data-source="post: 93046" data-attributes="member: 2212"><p>If you are using a scope, there is no disadvantage in terms of sight picture clarity to keeing your dominant eye closed if you are wrong side dominant. Unfortunately, most scope users close their off eye anyway! When shooting with a pistol and/or rifle with open sights, it helps your vision to keep both eyes open. Shutting one eye can cause a distortion on the retina since light is better balanced with two eyes open (even if one eye is blanked off). That is why pistol shooters especially use a blanking device on their off eye. The advantage of shooting with two eyes open with a scope is that you can find &amp; follow running targets better (more like a scout set-up). This two eye open approach is critical if you shoot a scoped handgun. Without the rifle stock which gives you some direction in pointing, a handgun when raised even in a two handed hold lacks the line to the target and if one eye is closed, ultimate tunnel vision of the scope is seen. With practice, anyone except a wrong master eye shooter can learn to shoot a scope with both eyes open. It does take work to retrain the brain. I had to relearn this technique, and if my old brain can relearn, most folks can too!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wapiti13, post: 93046, member: 2212"] If you are using a scope, there is no disadvantage in terms of sight picture clarity to keeing your dominant eye closed if you are wrong side dominant. Unfortunately, most scope users close their off eye anyway! When shooting with a pistol and/or rifle with open sights, it helps your vision to keep both eyes open. Shutting one eye can cause a distortion on the retina since light is better balanced with two eyes open (even if one eye is blanked off). That is why pistol shooters especially use a blanking device on their off eye. The advantage of shooting with two eyes open with a scope is that you can find & follow running targets better (more like a scout set-up). This two eye open approach is critical if you shoot a scoped handgun. Without the rifle stock which gives you some direction in pointing, a handgun when raised even in a two handed hold lacks the line to the target and if one eye is closed, ultimate tunnel vision of the scope is seen. With practice, anyone except a wrong master eye shooter can learn to shoot a scope with both eyes open. It does take work to retrain the brain. I had to relearn this technique, and if my old brain can relearn, most folks can too!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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