Goliathan
NES Member
I'm right-handed, and learned to shoot right handed ages ago. When I bought a bow recently, the guy there did a test and said I was right eye dominant. Bought my bow and been shooting it right handed since. All good.
Except I'm not so sure. Whenever I do those tests that you read about in the shooting rags, about making a circle at arm's length, focusing on a distant object, etc., the tests I do seem to indicate that I'm left eye dominant... cross dominant.
I'm wondering what, if anything, I should do at this late stage of my life to improve my shooting. I typically shoot right handed with the left eye closed. Maybe this makes it so it doesn't really matter, but I read time and again that you get a better sight picture if you can train yourself to shoot both eyes open. If I do that I'm going to have to adjust things, especially when it comes to long guns. I've never fired a rifle left handed. The pistol may not be that big a deal... Hickok45 is cross dominant, I think, and just lines up his shots a bit differently.
They say it's easier to train the hand than the eye. Where should I go?
Except I'm not so sure. Whenever I do those tests that you read about in the shooting rags, about making a circle at arm's length, focusing on a distant object, etc., the tests I do seem to indicate that I'm left eye dominant... cross dominant.
I'm wondering what, if anything, I should do at this late stage of my life to improve my shooting. I typically shoot right handed with the left eye closed. Maybe this makes it so it doesn't really matter, but I read time and again that you get a better sight picture if you can train yourself to shoot both eyes open. If I do that I'm going to have to adjust things, especially when it comes to long guns. I've never fired a rifle left handed. The pistol may not be that big a deal... Hickok45 is cross dominant, I think, and just lines up his shots a bit differently.
They say it's easier to train the hand than the eye. Where should I go?