Dominant Eye Issue..

[26 Inf]

It's strange because I didn't even notice I was using left eye with pistol till it was pointed out! Picking up rifle while tricky there's no urge to use left eye....

If you didn't notice until someone pointed it out, is it really that big a deal?

Maybe time for an optometrist visit.......

Do ya think?

Before you go get someone to measure from your eye to the front sight as you normally shoot. They should be able to figure out a correction for you in shooting glasses - if it;s that important.

Another tactic migh be to get a roll of frosted scotch tape and put a piece on your shooting glasses over your left eye. This can aide you in learning to shoot with both eyes open. Don't cover the whole lens, just a strip over the pupil area.

Cross-dominance in pistol shooting is not a real big deal IMVHO unless you are shooting in a one handed discipline such as bullseye or international pistol where your stance would cause you to tilt your head if you were cross dominant.

If you stand in front of a mirror with both eyes open and press out to a firing position the pistol should be aligned under the dominant eye - or the eye which gives you the best vision. Now close either eye and sight in, the pistol should move to under that eye, open that eye and close the other, same deal pistol should be under that eye in the mirror.

In a safe dry-fire area practice looking at the target and bringing the pistol between the target and your eyes, maintaining target focus with both eyes. Your brain knows what you need to see and you should sort out the sight picture you need for close to intermediate ranges.

ETA: I'd like to see a definitive link where the McMillan Tilt was explained as a cross dominant technique, rather than a technique to lock the shoulder, elbow and arm to aid in rapid fire.

[P2Vaircrewman]

I am right eye dominant but my left eye sees the sights slightly clearer than the right. Making the change to the left eye is not worth the effort, it would take an eye patch over my right eye and many hundred's of drawing to sight alignment repletion's to retrain the brain and muscle memory to equal the right side.

[everready73]

I'm cross dominant. Right hand left eye. I just turn my head slightly right to align the left eye. Works well.

I shoot rifles right eye though.

Exactly the same for me. I didn't even realize I was doing it when first started shooting. Works fine with rds on pistol as well

[Det-Sog]

I'm cross dominant. Right hand left eye. I just turn my head slightly right to align the left eye. Works well.

I shoot rifles right eye though.

Same here. It's worked for many years here. I never even payed attention to it until Pat Rogers noticed how I was shooting one day in a SWAT school. I was killing the target so his comment was "carry on".

[SeriousStudent]

Same here. It's worked for many years here. I never even payed attention to it until Pat Rogers noticed how I was shooting one day in a SWAT school. I was killing the target so his comment was "carry on".

Yup, I have been doing the same thing. My dominant eye shifted from right to left after a head injury 30 years ago.

"If it works, it works" is what I was told as well.

[Diamondback]

Yup, I have been doing the same thing. My dominant eye shifted from right to left after a head injury 30 years ago.

"If it works, it works" is what I was told as well.

When I was coaching back in college, I always said "Results talk, BS walks--if a technique isn't getting results for you, try something else and see if that does."