Both eyes open?

[Mookie]

I have forced myself to shoot with both eyes open when using open sights, not peep. The reason. When having to do a fast shot, whether in self defense or getting that squirrel, the natural reaction is to point and shoot with both eyes open. If you train with only one eye open then your natural reaction and training conflict.

[dbllunger]

Start with both eyes then finalize the shot with one.  Short range combat/fast style shooting both eyes.  Same with sights, scopes, or red dots, bow, rifle, shotgun, pistol.

[BigGoonTuna]

i tried shouldering my rifle and looking through the scope with both eyes open.  my issue is that until i close my left eye, the image in the scope is fuzzy(the reticle is sharp, but the target is blurred).  guess i can't do it

[bowhunterforever]

Bow, Rifle, and shotgun one eye shut.

[bow4elk]

Recurve/longbow - both eyes wide open 

Compound (with peep) - squint left eye to center peep during draw, then both open for shot   

[bearhunter59]

biggoontuna...sounds like you need your eyes checked...no joke, serious.    What you described is exactly what happens with me when I try to use both eyes.   I know I need glasses.  What is happening is one eye is seeing a little nearsighted and the other one is either ok or seeing a little farsighted.  Try focusing on the rear-sights one eye at a time, and then try focusing on the target with each eye individually.  In my case, I can see the rear sights clear as day with my right eye, but can't see the target worth a darn with it.  I can see the target clear as a bell with my left, but it's just fuzz with my right eye.  My left eyes is @20/15, and my right eyes is @20/80, according to the eye doc.

I'll bet you either already use reading glasses, or need them...

[JoshT]

You shouldn't ever "see" the sights... you should "see" the target and look through the sights.

[BigGoonTuna]

biggoontuna...sounds like you need your eyes checked...no joke, serious.    What you described is exactly what happens with me when I try to use both eyes.   I know I need glasses.  What is happening is one eye is seeing a little nearsighted and the other one is either ok or seeing a little farsighted.  Try focusing on the rear-sights one eye at a time, and then try focusing on the target with each eye individually.  In my case, I can see the rear sights clear as day with my right eye, but can't see the target worth a darn with it.  I can see the target clear as a bell with my left, but it's just fuzz with my right eye.  My left eyes is @20/15, and my right eyes is @20/80, according to the eye doc.

I'll bet you either already use reading glasses, or need them...

i've wondered if i needed glasses, but it's mainly for reading things at distance(like road signs).  when i was working, i printed newspapers and could see a line of dots sticking out(which is about .010" wide) if the colors were out of register without a magnifying glass.  i kind of figured that screwed up my eyes.

[jackelope]

you could just have eye dominance issues. i do. i wear glasses...i'm a right handed shooter with a dominant left eye. it's backasswards from what it needs to be. i try really hard to shoot with both eyes open but have trouble doing it depending on the situation. it's a pretty common issue people have.

[Gearhead1940]

you could just have eye dominance issues. i do. i wear glasses...i'm a right handed shooter with a dominant left eye. it's backasswards from what it needs to be. i try really hard to shoot with both eyes open but have trouble doing it depending on the situation. it's a pretty common issue people have.

Yep, that's my issue too.  Left eye dominant, right handed.  When I used to shoot competitive .22 I had a perscription lense made for my shooting glasses for my right eye and had an opaque "patch" for my left.http://www.knobloch-shootingglasses.com/allframes.html  The opaque eye patch let you keep your eye open without seeing downrange screwing up your sight picture and by keeping the eye open with the same relative amount of light it wouldn't put an undue strain on your shooting eye.

[jackelope]

that patch is real common among clays shooters too.

[Pathfinder101]

This is how I had it described to me;  if you are right handed and right eye dominant (or left handed and left eye dominant) then you should shoot with both eyes open.  If you are right handed and left eye dominant (or vice-versa) you should close your dominant eye otherwise it tries to "take over" when your non-dominent eye is looking through/down the sight/scope. 
I am right handed and left eye dominant, and I have found this is true.  I would love to shoot with both eyes open for a better field of view, but I cant, the sight picture keeps shifting on me.