Too many misses

[Stour-boy]

Just thought I would share my experience today with you guys.Firstly I went pigeon shooting Monday morning had 46 shots got 4 birds not good, I have never shot well but this was abismal ,feeling very peed off I drew stumps early and packed up. Today I went to the local gunsmith/shooting ground to see why I couldnt shoot, Within 5 minutes I was diagnosed with central vision where neither eye is master and if you point with the right hand the right eye takes over and if you point with the left hand the left eye takes over,The try gun was set up and I shot at the plate a little adjustment and I shot a straight ten on the clays magic why hadnt I done this before ? Well one listens to what other people say and suggest but nobody has come up with this before,but I bit the bullet (no pun intended) and paid out for profesional advice and is well worth every pound spent on this fitting. I now have as far as I can see one option to sell my guns and pay out for a new stock, The stock shape is a shallower cross eyed stock so any gun with a bolt down through the stock is out, my pair of Birmingham guns have lovely stocks, and it would be sacrilege to change those I have a yeoman o/u that has a bolt through the stock so thats out.

Any ideas anyone ?

[Brisa]

I am assuming that this would only be problem if you were shooting with both eyes open? Might be worth trying to get used to closing one eye?

[Traztaz]

I shoot as the above poster has suggested, and shoot actually quite well. Try it.

[Stour-boy]

Have tried but didnt get on very well.

[peter-peter]

a little tip.

try blinking your left eye while tracking the bird insted of closing it.

thats if you are right handed of course

however,

i feel even though you are centre sighted when you say you cannot hit with one eye closed I would think you are not leading the bird correctly and stopping your swing on pulling the trigger.

if you point at a crosser at 40 yards pull the trigger on the bird with a stationary gun by the time the shot reaches you will be 6 ft behind it.

have an hour with a good coach before doing drastic stock changes.

[LongRangeSniper]

Have you thought about one of these ? http://www.easyhit.co.uk/ , I have one on my sbs and it has improved my shooting. I tried it at this years CLA before I bought it. I have a few friends trhat also use them. Better to spend £35ish than change all your guns

[babka3487]

I too would suggest that you try easyhit or something similar before you go changing your guns. Another option would be to wear shooting glasses and place a carefully position clear sticker in the centre of the left lens, this should sufficiently reduce the quality of vision in the left eye for your brain to switch to the right eye, but the fact that you still have both eyes open means you get a 3D picture of the target which will allow you to tackle it better. Good luck any way!

[ferretman]

Have you thought about one of these ? http://www.easyhit.co.uk/ , I have one on my sbs and it has improved my shooting. I tried it at this years CLA before I bought it. I have a few friends trhat also use them. Better to spend £35ish than change all your guns

you can buy them off e-bay brand new alot cheaper,or in gun shops cheaaper.

[MC]

Having a gun that fits you is THE most important thing in shooting.

 

For you to be able to hit birds whether clay or living your gun has to come up into the shoulder in exactly the same place time and time again. All these fancy add on sights etc will not help one bit if the gun is wrong.

 

My advice is use the try gun dimensions and have your gun altered to suit.

 

I have central vision and shoot with both eyes open and I hit a lot more than I miss. My gun fits me like a glove and points exactly where I am looking over and over again. My problem is when I miss I am not looking in the right place.

[Brisa]

Having just bought a shotgun, a bakail the stock was very short for me. I has shouldering it differently every time as it wasn't just 'right'. I stood in front of the mirror, closed my eyes and shouldered the gun (same way I would checking my scope relief on rifles) and when I opened my eyes I look akward and also the gun was pointed off a lot to the right as it was not a natural movment for me.

 

I had a slightly larger butt pad off the air rifle that was laying in the spares box, put it on in place of the baikal standard one which made the length of pull just right going by what I was told in the gun shop. Tried the mirror thing again and the gun was same place every time and always pointing where I was looking in relation on the mirror when I opened my eyes. The gun is so much easier to shoot and getting on target quicker as the gun is where I'm looking now rather than having to adjust myself to make the gun point in the right direction.

 

Worth trying EVERYTHING before changing the gun.

[Breastman]

I too would suggest that you try easyhit or something similar before you go changing your guns. Another option would be to wear shooting glasses and place a carefully position clear sticker in the centre of the left lens, this should sufficiently reduce the quality of vision in the left eye for your brain to switch to the right eye, but the fact that you still have both eyes open means you get a 3D picture of the target which will allow you to tackle it better. Good luck any way!

When i first started i got some professional lessons and was diagnosed with the dreaded central vision but I did this tape on the shooting glasses trick and my scores when from 30-50% to 65-85% instantly . I'm also going to get one of those easyhit beads to see if that helps aswell.

 

Mark