rigwallet Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 im right handed sshooter with left eye dominance tried truglo bead but dint seem to work and came off and lost it any ideas before i waste any more money thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC45 Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 im right handed sshooter with left eye dominance tried truglo bead but dint seem to work and came off and lost it any ideas before i waste any more money thanks Me too, I close my left eye as I am not too sure about these gimmicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryantidgwell Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 practice shooting left handed you can pick shooting up with ether hand fairly fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyxologos Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Me too, I close my left eye as I am not too sure about these gimmicks. that is what I do. It takes some getting used to, but I am hopefull that I will eventually overcome this annoying hinderance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foggy11 Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Some people also find that wearing shooting glasses with some opaque (frosted) but see through stick on plastic over the other lens, this trick the brain into making the other eye the dominant one.... Hope this helps.... Nik... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Bully Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Closing one eye does not help when it comes to judging distance, try catching a cricket ball thrown to you with one eye closed.. Shooting off the left shoulder is the best solution imo, and it's not that tricky to get used to. EB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claybreaker Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 i am the same. all i do is have both eyes open then shut my left eye at the kill point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Hi, If you don't already wear prescription glasses, get a pair of shooting glasses. Get a bit of sticky tape about 10mm in diameter, if it's really sticky, try to make it less so so that it'll peel off easily and place it in the top left hand corner of the left lens as you look through the glasses. Mount your gun at a "target" and move the tape as necessary to blot out the sight of end of the barrels with your left eye when the gun comes into your shoulder - shut your right eye to check this. It may be necessary to adjust the tape size one way or the other. Once you've got it right for the usual targets, especially high birds, my personal choice is to put the tape on the outside of the lens and Tippex (snowpake) for a pemanent (but removable) patch on the inside of the lens then removing the tape. This method gives you normal vision right up to the time you are just about to pull the trigger. The problem just simply goes away. It goes without saying, don't drive with them on particularly if like me you look over your left shoulder to reverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyxologos Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Wow! What can I say? I am relieved and amazed! Today was a revelation. I am cross eye dominant. I shoot on my right shoulder, my left eye is dominant. After shooting for a year with my left eye shut and achieving 40% hits at best, today I decided I 'waste' my day by keeping both eyes open no matter what, despite trying this in the past (albeit for a short period of time) without any success. I just could not get passed the fact that I saw two barrels and, despite knowing that i should ignore the right barrel, my mind did not seem to agree with this. Well... after missing the first six or seven clays (in the row) I started hitting them like there was no tomorrow. I mean, it felt natural, just like that. After the initial failed shots, I all of a sudden could not see the end of my gun at all, as if it became invincible. I was consistent, it all felt so natural, I cannot describe it any other way. I ended up shooting 85 out of my 100 clays. Amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayman Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 (edited) Seeing a "second" barrel, or a ghost image is often as a result of having the comb set too low. Many shooters have their combs low, or bury their faces in the stock so they look over the back of the action and through the bead - in effect "aiming" the shotgun. At least 50% of all shooters who come to me for dynamic gun fit lessons are putting the gun too low on the shoulder, not raising the elbow to pull the gun over to the face and dropping and/or canting their head ( ie fitting themselves to the gun, not the gun to them). If they are low on the comb or shooting "flat" to the rib the lower half of the periphery vision of the shooting eye is now blocked by the action, and our super brain fills this in with a "ghost" image taken from the other eye. The result is a confused sight picture, depending on where the focus is you see two barrels, two beads or two clays/quarry. This usually occurs when the eye balance is fairly even, ie there is no eye that is particularly dominant. The static tests will still suggest one or the other is, but your brain is switching them, or using 1/2 the vision of the other eye, because one is partly blocked ( by the big black lump called a gun) Amazing cures can be found simply by raising the comb 1/4 inch or so and looking past and over the bead, seeing the rib below your vision as the pointing device ( and not sighting through the bead). A properly fitting gun correctly mounted will have the whole eye iris above the rib, so that the pupil is high and looking down onto the rib, and over the bead not through it. For all those presently squinting, dotting. closing an eye, just try raising the comb and keeping BOTH eyes firmly on the target - as commented by a shooter in this thread already, this technique can make significant differences to your scores. Edited May 20, 2009 by clayman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 im right handed sshooter with left eye dominance tried truglo bead but dint seem to work and came off and lost it any ideas before i waste any more money thanks Some of those beads do not shine a tight enough beam of light, so are seen by both eyes. Move it down the barrel until only your sighting eye can see it. Then shoot with both eyes open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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