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    As a right eye dominate/right handed shooter, I never fully understood why instructors would have left eye dominate/right handed shooters shoot left handed with rifles. Wouldn't it be more effective for them to simply close their left eye and continue shooting right handed?

    I realize shooting with both eyes open is ideal, but since most rifles are designed for right handed shooters, they are giving up a lot just to shoot with both eyes open.
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    Honestly, the AR platform is so easy to shoot left-handed that it really wouldn't take too long to convert over. I find manipulating and shooting an AR left handed far easier than a handgun.

    I coach archery from time to time. Every left eyed dominant, right handed shooter I have converted to shooting left handed has improved far beyond their scores vs. forcing their left eye closed and aiming with the right/shooting right handed.

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    [QUOTE=markm;1391870]I'd shy away from that KNS garbage.

    Mark, why do you think these posts are garbage? I'be used them for years, with great results. Is there somthing I should know?

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    [QUOTE=fixit69;1392024]
    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    I'd shy away from that KNS garbage.

    Mark, why do you think these posts are garbage? I'be used them for years, with great results. Is there somthing I should know?
    KNS frightens me in general...

    1. They make the KNS pins.. and

    2. They had that Cross hair front site post.

    It strikes me that they have NO CLUE when it comes to the AR platform. Now I guess some of those smaller tipped posts might work for a guy... but I don't know about those jokers.
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    Haha, yea. Wasn't tracking you clearly. The smaller posts are nice for my horrible eyes, the crosshair thing is a joke.

    I'll stop the thread derail now.

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    Thanks all I am enjoying this thread for the most part. I took my new DDV1 put to the range the other day for the first time, they were having an event at the range and also I wanted my wife to shoot her new LCP so I was on the only range with no one the 15 -20 yard range. When I shot my DD I at first aimed straight on front post on center of target and was shooting directly low about 5-8 inches, understanding at this close most rifles will shoot low I then used the halfway mark on my front irons and was spot on, putting round after round through an area the size of a drinking glass circle.. I really wish I had access to the 100 yard range I am eager to 0 my rifle in. I like the sights on the DD but my question is am I to align the front post and my POI is to be above it or under it or on it, I know everyone is different but what is rule of thumb for using the irons. I am going out to the range this Friday with a S load of ammo to sight it in. I read and I know every rifle is different but I believe that if shooting straight on at 25 yards and your anywhere from 3-6 inches low that you will most likly be on or very close at 100 yards..I know this is purely speculation and ill know for sure on Friday but I believe this to be true.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tb-av View Post
    Ah! OK... I could have swore I just read a thread where people were going out of their way to say focus on the target. I thought that sounded odd.

    Hope to try again today.

    This is standard BCM FSB.

    Will let you know what happens.
    They were probably taking about using a red dot.

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    For sure the thing with irons is that you do have to focus on the front sight, and then on the target depending on distance. We all have different ranges as well as different eye-sight. Practice practice practice. Once you know your rifle and yourself a little better you won't even think about it.

    I'm left eye dominant (not severe) but I shoot ambidextrous (I practiced). I don't think a rifle is too hard to learn both sides on, especially if you have to suit your dominant eye. In fact, there are slight advantages to shooting a primary left handed and then utilizing a secondary handgun right handed. That's another topic, and there's of course a lot in that.
    Last edited by Casull; 09-11-12 at 21:49.
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    Eye dominance is all in your head. Literally.

    The image from each eye is sent to the brain, where the brain combines information from the images, adds some stuff, takes some stuff away and does all sorts of weird things really - it gets way out in the weeds as both hemispheres of the brain control both eyes, but each half of the brain only deals with part of each image...

    Anywho, the image your brain forms is called the cyclopian or "minds eye" image... and your mind does favor the image of one eye: this is the dominant eye.

    Most people are right-eye dominant (and right handed) but about a third of the world is left-eye dominant... as about only 1 in 10 people are left handed, this leaves us with a good size chunk of people that are right-hand, left-eye "cross dominant."

    Eye dominance can switch... for various reasons, but it seems that the immediate switch in eye dominance is cued by the relative size of the viewed object, in which the viewed object appears larger in one eye than the other - research in sports medicine also sites the "angle of attack"... but this would put the eye on the attack side closer to the object and account for a larger relative image. Think about your shooting position here.

    One of the most common reasons your mind picks one eye over the other is simply one sees better than the other - there are people who favor one eye without their glasses, and the other eye when they have them on... the good news is, if you have good (or equal) vision in both eyes, you can most likely teach yourself to switch dominance. There are several exercise for this, most involve doing some sort of precision task with the normally dominant eye covered... some folks can simply close the dominant eye for a second and make the switch... and some people the spend a lot of time with a NOD or targeting eyepiece in front of one eye can just make the switch by thinking about it.

    If you try it, and simply can not make the change... see an eye doctor and make sure both ojos are working right... I am cross-eye dominant and shoot faster right handed, but more accurate left handed

    ETA: As for the original question... most instructors I know (the produce good results) say to (a) focus on the target and verify what you are shooting at (b) switch focus to the front sight and center that in the blurred image of the target.
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