Aiming with left eyes ?

[100cop]

My Son is new to shooting and doing pretty well but i noticed that he aims with his left eye. should i be worry about this? if so how do i current this, even when he uses his right eye. he unconscious changes to his left.

[HighDesert]

Wear an eye patch on left eye while shooting or just tape left lens of his glasses - shoot enough like this and he'll correct. But he has to shoot A LOT like this.

I am cross eye dominant and just deal with it and the occasional brass to face.

[100cop]

the eye pact thing sound like a good idea, will give it a try, thanks

[100cop]

Wear an eye patch on left eye while shooting or just tape left lens of his glasses - shoot enough like this and he'll correct. But he has to shoot A LOT like this.

I am cross eye dominant and just deal with it and the occasional brass to face.

how long did it take you to adjust?

[HighDesert]

how long did it take you to adjust?

Still shoot handgun with cross eye (left). Stayed righty with rifle and bow and honestly still catch myself trying to use my left eye at times, with irons.

[Skipper1969]

I'm cross dominant and find it's an advantage. I've worked with my right eye long enough that I can use either eye. It also makes it easier to use either hand. Only issues I run into are skeet and wing shooting. As long as I don't get too rusty I overcome those issues pretty good.


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[Failure2Stop]

Pistol or rifle?

[100cop]

Pistol or rifle?

for both pistols and handguns

[Failure2Stop]

for both pistols and handguns

Tape advice as above is good.
Eye patch can work, but usually gets ignored.

[tb-av]

for both pistols and handguns

On the handgun if he's going to shot opposite eye. Tell him to stand like that picture of Jeff Cooper. Not perfectly square. AND to lift the gun so it's actually aligned with his left eye.

IOW, most people standing square, if you lift your right arm the sights will be in front of your right eye. Great if you use your right eye. Not so great for left eye shooters. What will happen is, he will lift the gun maybe centered if using two hands but that's still not far enough over to the left and you will have a tendency to tilt your head until the eye aligns with the sight. But again notice that photo and his head is straight up.

So that little bit of angled stance and training yourself to lift the gun sights in front of the dominant eye will get everything on target much faster. You can raise gun up with eyes closed then open and hopefully the sights will be aligned on target with the dominant eye and no arm, head, body adjustments needed.

I'm very much opposite eye dominant to the point I can't read what I'm typing now with just my right eye.

ETA: on the tape deal. I can't recall the science behind this but I seem to recall people would use frosted tape that lets light through as opposed to a blackout. I can not recall why. I think it had something to do with allowing light in causing less fatigue. Maybe someone here knows. It think I got that from Bullseye shooters years back. Like the frosted scotch tape as opposed to the transparent type.