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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: NW-GSP on October 31, 2014, 07:32:19 PM
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My wife is right handed but left eye dominate, she shoots her bow left handed but I'm trying to decide what to do for shotgun shooting for her?.
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My daughter is left handed and right eye dominate she shoots right handed
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I'm thinking that will need to get her a left handed shotgun and practice a bunch this summer.
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Right handed left eye dominant here. In boot camp they thought they could break it tried every trick but nothing shot lefty and they left me alone after that. I've have had nothing but rifles for righties and have learned to adjust to it have never tried a rifle for lefties wouldn't know what to do
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Right here. I'm not much help since I got so used to shooting righty and unloading/loading right it was very weird, awkward and challenging to retrain to lefty so I just switched the rifles back to righty. Just my experiences, even thru military all my weapons were for rightys.
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Another reason but not the main, the weapons whether rifle/bow are more expensive and difficult to find sometimes.
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Left eye dominate and shoot everything left handed only have a left hand bow everything else is right handed. Call me cheap but manufacturers want an additional $25.00 + for left hand equipment.....
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Left eye right handed here. Shoot bows and long guns lefty. But I have to shoot pistols right handed since it is my strong side. Kinda goofy but I make do.
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That is what I have as well, right handed and left eye dominent. For shot gunning try a small patch on her glasses over her left eye, it works. That is what Matt and Chuck Drike had me do, for trap and skeet and I do the same for duck/geese. Check out the majic dot system but most shooters just use tape. I still use it for sporting clays, 5000+ rounds this year.
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My son is right-handed, left eye dominant.
I have been teaching him to shoot both hands. Good time to learn now while he has no muscle memory.
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Yep I am I shoot a right handed rifle, a break action shotgun, a right ejecting ar because I am very right handed but I shoot everything left eye. I know of a few more people on here as well its far more common than you would think.
My son is lefty handed, left eye and for a shotgun he found browning with a bottom ejection to be the bomb diddly, otherwise he had very limited lefty selections.
I am not a big shotgun person so havent had the experience of dealing with stuff the size of shot shells ejecting across my visual plane. Everything semi auto has not bugged me, pistols, ar's etc.
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I was born with a dawg doo snow cone in my right eye. I can't see out the other eye. So I go through a lot of ammo. Works for me... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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I'm the opposite. Right eye dominate shoot left handed.
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Right handed left eye dominant here. In boot camp they thought they could break it tried every trick but nothing shot lefty and they left me alone after that. I've have had nothing but rifles for righties and have learned to adjust to it have never tried a rifle for lefties wouldn't know what to do
Yep me too.
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My son and I are both left eye dominant and right handed. I didn't even know until I had been shooting for years. Don't even think about it. My son must have a stronger case of left eye dominance. We played with shooting left handed with him for a while before he settled into total right handed right eye shooting.
It's an interesting issue.
Wsmnut
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For shooting rifles it's not that big a deal to be right handed and left eye dominant. You can just close your left eye. But with shotguns you really need to be shooting with both eyes open, so if I had that issue, I'd try to learn to shoot shotguns left handed.
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I know it's a drive Richard but......... you come on up here this summer and I'll help the Mrs with a few different tactics,the bad news is your on the hook for an over under for her to shoot.We got a real nice gun club up here in Lynden,I'm a shooting coach for the kids in SCTP program.You can shoot 5 stand for the morning and I'll take her to a field where its just me and her and try to get the left eye out of the picture,Scotch tape over the left lens is a real good start,blurs the vision enough for the right eye take over.I'm a righty righty,but with age the station 8 skeet lowhouse I've had to learn/train myself about left eye dominance.I'm good all the way till there.Shotgun shooting is all in the eye's Chuck Dryke taught me that.Actually I've got several guns she can try/use,we'll need to see what gets the right fit and go from there.
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Wildweeds I will take you up on the offer, I'm a lucky guy, she will go upland hunting and even sit in a duck blind when its pouring rain or snowing. She is also great with a bow. Now its just getting shot gun shooting down.
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It's all about practice,confidence.I helped my buddies wife earlier this year,She had a disappointing last pheasant season with a couple boxes of shells shot and only one bird taken.Two outings to the gun club with 4 boxes each session and she ended up breaking 20 of 25 targets on the last three boxes.I should have mentioned that the shooting hours at the club are 9 am to 1pm on saturdays,there are 6 skeet/trap fields and the 5 stand.One skeet field is set up for International skeet.I have 12/20/28 and 410 guages in a variety of manufacturers to choose from.You come up a few weekends and we can get her headed in the right direction and then you two can hit granite falls during the week.It's a win win for you,you've always wanted to reload shotgun shells right?After we get her in the right direction we can get together for a shoot at either Seattle trap/skeet for sporting clays or a trip to Sunnydell shooting grounds in Sequim.We can pick you guys up on the way by!
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Left eye dominate RH so is my wife and oldest daughter.
I have chosen guns that are relatively Ambi I shoot a mossburg shotgun the safety up top is great for left or right. I had a Rem 870 and never used the safety because i lost too many birds trying to get the safety off. I would really like a side by side shotgun but they are more spendy and the salt eats them up. For rifles, I like lever guns. I bought a LH bolt gun and love it. Pistols, i like revolvers and semi autos that are Ambi. I like the Semi rugers i have shot as well as glocks. some brands are more ambi than others.
I shoot a LH bow, my wife shoots a RH bow so does my daughter. I think their shooting would improve with LH gear. Hope that helps
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right handed blind in right eye shotgun i shoot right handed flat stock works good
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I am right handed left eye dominate. I also shoot 10's of thousands of rounds each year with both eyes open using my right eye. Everyone's dominance is different so you should keep that in mind.
There is a huge advantage to shooting using your dominate hand especially in any kind of dynamic shooting. I personally wouldn't go weak hand to match the eye, even with a child. I would train them to use their less dominate eye. In pistol's it is even more important to shoot strong hand, I would never teach weak hand shooting as a first choice.
First, when it comes to shooting you need to know what the eye is supposed to do......
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Well said Sir,alot of truth to that statement.
First, when it comes to shooting you need to know what the eye is supposed to do......
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Well said Sir,alot of truth to that statement.
First, when it comes to shooting you need to know what the eye is supposed to do......
Not to sound entirely ignorant but exactly what does this sort of cryptic statement mean? Can you explain for the people who are new to shooting in a way that is easy to understand.
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Your eyes have everything to do with shooting a shotgun,they look well past the bead on the end of the barrell,fact is you don't even see the end of the barrell if your doing it right.Gun mount is paramount,it needs to be consistant and the same everytime,so that the sight plane is the same as well as the point of impact,your eyes focus on the leading edge of the target,if it's flying left to right as an incoming target you match the speed of the bird with the swing,focus on the righthand side leading edge and with a smooth swing the lead will automatically be correct if you are lined up right on the stock,your head is down and your eyes are on the prize. Aim a rifle/pistol and POINT a shotgun.In 2 years of teaching the kids I've heard at least 1000 times,"oh I shot in front of that one" in two years All but two of those kids who have claimed to have shot in front of the target have shot behind.Go to a place that throws targets over water,Sunnydell is one,99.8 percent of misses are behind.Shooting a shotgun at passing targets and stopping the swing as you pull the trigger gets you a rifle shot,the pattern is round,maintaining the swing actually strings the shot almost as if painting with a brush.I've got very good 20/15 vision,when the light is right I can pick the shot cloud up if I'm standing back 5 feet and pushing the button on the thrower.Horsehoes are a great game to train eyes,as well as cornhole,or washerboard game.I'm a welder and get plenty of practice throwing rod stubs out of my stinger and into a bucket.Bullriders use eyes to focus on the spine of the bull in front of their hand,your balance goes wherever eye's go,eye's are attached to hands and work in unison,same goes for shotguns and swinging,the other part of shotguns is stance and where your big toe is pointing,it's a fact that target breaks will occur within 10 degrees of where the big toe is pointing,Set your stance wrong and get out of balance and your going to shoot behind,behind and behind.I've been shooting shotguns for 33 years,for the last 20 I've been shooting an average of 8 boxes per week at clay targets,In the last 10 years about 4 times per year I've been known to go for the gold and see how much lead can fly in a day at a sporting clays range,my best to date is 21 boxes.Clays games really boosts confidence in a real world birds in the air scenario.
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Just ask her. But most likely she would want a left handed shotgun if she uses that hand for bows. Do you have any other guns? You can have her shoot one of your other guns to see which hand she likes using.
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This is what I believe the eye does for shooting pistols/rifle/bow. I'm not a shotgun shooter (other then for a bird here or there) so I'm not going to say it applies to shooting the clay sports (it likely does) but it does apply in the field.
When shooting the eye confirms alignment of the sight. The eye should also (when shooting at a high level) confirm alignment of the sight at the moment of ignition, telling you where the projectile will impact before impacting the target. Every thing else is done by something other then the eye.
So, breaking an accurate shot has more to do with being able to break an accurate shot, on demand, without disturbing the sight. That's why I don't think using a weak hand (on purpose) or teaching someone, especially a child, is the right way to go when learning how to shoot. There certainly is a reason why we call it a "weak hand". To give yourself the best opportunity to break an accurate shot, you want to use whatever gives you the most dexterity, not the least.
Well said Sir,alot of truth to that statement.
First, when it comes to shooting you need to know what the eye is supposed to do......
Not to sound entirely ignorant but exactly what does this sort of cryptic statement mean? Can you explain for the people who are new to shooting in a way that is easy to understand.
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A good example is that you will hear from a lot of novice pistol shooters who shoot a Glock complain that they are shooting Low/Left. They will blame it on the grip angle at times. They will say "A Glock doesn't fit me". Sometimes you will find that they will shift their sights (abnormally) to one side of the pistol in order to try to "correct" the point of impact. You will even find them saying things like "I can't shoot a Glock".
It isn't a sighting problem or a Glock problem, it is a trigger control problem, an experience problem. You must be able to break a shot without disturbing your sight. In order to do that consistently you will need as much dexterity as you can get get.
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For shooting rifles it's not that big a deal to be right handed and left eye dominant. You can just close your left eye. But with shotguns you really need to be shooting with both eyes open, so if I had that issue, I'd try to learn to shoot shotguns left handed.
That's what Chuck Dryke told me. Didn't work after a day with him in Sequim. Scotch tape over left eye.
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Chuck told you to shoot lefty? And it didn't work? I see lots of guys with a precisely placed circle of scotch tape on their glasses.I've noticed the last year or so that my left eye tries to take over at station 8,that's the only spot where it tries to take over.
For shooting rifles it's not that big a deal to be right handed and left eye dominant. You can just close your left eye. But with shotguns you really need to be shooting with both eyes open, so if I had that issue, I'd try to learn to shoot shotguns left handed.
That's what Chuck Dryke told me. Didn't work after a day with him in Sequim. Scotch tape over left eye.
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Right handed, left eye dominant, and a better shot with my shotgun than my hunting buddy or my dad. I can't explain why, but I almost think it helps. Growing up, my dad would say "Look at the duck, but see the bead." I couldn't do it, so I just learned to look at the duck and just kind of "know" where the gun was pointing, almost like an extension of my body. My hunting buddy has done all kinds of stuff to improve his shooting - fiber optic beads, red dot sights, you name it. It frustrates him no end when I make a good shot and when he asks what I see in my sight picture, I say "A duck." But it's the truth - I don't even notice the bead.
I recommend taking her shooting and have her practice shooting stationary targets with both eyes open, so she can get a feel for where the gun hits. When she can consistently hit stationary targets, try simple trap shots. I think for us goofy shooters, it is a matter of practice more than anything else.
Hope this helps,
Chris
