Post by Rook on Apr 14, 2012 6:32:40 GMT -5
Just like handedness, people have a dominant eye. It is harder to tell if you are right or left eye dominant than it is to know which hand is dominant. The best way to test this is to hold your hands out in front of you, overlapping your thumbs parallel to the ground and making a triangle with your index fingers. Hold your hands at full extension and focus on a spot on the wall or ceiling inside the triangle. Slowly pull your hands back to your face. When you hands meet your face the triangle will encircle your dominant eye. The majority of people’s dominant eye is the same as their dominant hand.
If your dominant hand and your dominant eye are different, that will cause difficulty with your marksmanship. You have two choices; either train your hands to match your eyes or train your eyes to match your hands. To train your hands you simply shoulder your rifle to the same shoulder as your dominant eye. Training your eye to your handedness requires blinders that forces your non-dominant eye to do the majority of the aiming. It is important that cross-dominant shooters identify their situation and take steps to line up the side of the body the firearm is being used on with the dominant (or forced dominant) eye. Trying to shoot from the right shoulder by moving the head far enough to aim with the left eye creates a very unstable foundation for marksmanship and will inhibit the shooter from ever achieving high levels of proficiency and accuracy.
If your dominant hand and your dominant eye are different, that will cause difficulty with your marksmanship. You have two choices; either train your hands to match your eyes or train your eyes to match your hands. To train your hands you simply shoulder your rifle to the same shoulder as your dominant eye. Training your eye to your handedness requires blinders that forces your non-dominant eye to do the majority of the aiming. It is important that cross-dominant shooters identify their situation and take steps to line up the side of the body the firearm is being used on with the dominant (or forced dominant) eye. Trying to shoot from the right shoulder by moving the head far enough to aim with the left eye creates a very unstable foundation for marksmanship and will inhibit the shooter from ever achieving high levels of proficiency and accuracy.