Any other right hand shooters that's left eye dominant?

Yes I am right handed but left eye dominant. I have always shot left handed with right hand bolt action rifles. This has not a problem for me as I like having the ejection port on my side of the action to catch spent cases or to load when necessary. One reason I went with the purchase of my FX Wildcat bullpup was the forward location of the cocking lever. It is very easy for an left hander to work the cocking lever and load pellets. There are a lot of good bullpups out there but they are not left hand friendly with the cocking lever at your face and cheek area. I posted this before but here is a short video on how a made a small cheek rest for my Wildcat. Bill

Okay so you guys are saying you still shoot right handed but lean over the rifle to use your left dominant eye. That would be very difficult for me to do. I just shoot left handed using my left dominant eye. That is just the way I have done it from preteen age years when I determined I was left eye dominant. Bill

Pretty well lost vision in my right eye a few years ago, just switched to left hand shooting.
I do know a right hand left eyed FT shooter and She does simply shoot right handed using Her left eye, and NO I could not do that without injury but it works well for Her.
John

Always use your dominate eye. When you are young not such a problem, as you age it will become
a much bigger issue. If you shoot right handed and use your left eye you are contorting
your head neck and shoulders in a way that is not as repeatable as right hand right eye or left hand left eye.
All shooters, matters not what, pistol, rifle , shotgun or bow should strive to shoot with both eyes open.
Most close their off eye acquire their sight picture then will barely open the other eye. The reason why
has to do with our brain and how it is trained to perceive our monocular ( I think ) vision. Hope this helps!

I am left handed but shoot a rifle right handed. It seems natural to me. Over 40 years ago when I first started bowhunting, I used a left hand bow, when I sold that bow, the only one I could find was right handed, after a few weeks I could shoot way better with it. One of my son n laws is right handed but shoots a rifle left handed. While he shoots ok, he seems to struggle a little. But he shoots a bow right handed & very well. Two of my grand children are left handed, they are a lil young, to see which eye will determine their shooting preference. More ambidextrous guns are needed.

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It is important to identify eye dominance early in kids. I bought a BB gun for my son around the age of 9. I notice he was shooting it canted about 90 degrees due to shooting right handed and being left eye dominate. My duck hunting buddy has the the same condition and encouraged me to have him shoot left handed. It took a while for him to get comfortable but now he shoots better than I. My friend, even with a shotgun, shoots with "special" glasses (not sure what thet are) to minimize the effect. He regrets that he didn't switch when he was young when it would have been easier to do so.

LMAO Thanks JWR think I pooped myself a little on that one!!!! Funny poop.

Joe...you are hilarious

I also use a bubble lever for air rifle shooting to eliminate cant, I am right handed with left eye dominant. Never bothered me or noticed until I was very strongly advised by some Uncle Sam training experts with 500 years combined firearms experience to shoot the service pistol with my left hand instead. I throw balls with my left hand like a 9 year old girl. Needless to say, I could barely hit the target during the entire course even as I scored great prior to that. That was the last time I tried that. You should use your dominant eye, but your muscle memory and physical weapon-hold needs to be reconditioned along with it.

Interesting to hear of so many others with this - I am about 75% left eye dominant but right handed, and so have always shot right handed using right eye.

I do find that when I use the left it feels like the image is a bit larger and brighter and generally I feel more relaxed (which is the most important factor I would say), so keeping both eyes open is a definite help for me.

Good for you NMshooter - I wish someone had identified it with me when I was young I would love to be using my left eye to shoot. But like fe7565 said - physical co-ordination, muscle memory etc means it just feels too unnatural to shoot lefty.

For shotgun I have to use a bit of vaseline on the lens of the left side of the shooting glasses to blur it out but keep periperal vision.

Oh well... Left Hand stocks often cost more anyway - so there's a positive!!

I went blind in my right eye and stopped shooting altitude. Then my daughter wanted to learn how to shoot a gun. What's a father to do? Learn how to shoot left handed. It is so unnatural at first. Just remember how you first started to learn how to shoot. You must build muscle memory. This is very hard but it is worth it. I hope you figure out what works for you.

I'm left eye dominant, shoot right handed too. I don't have any trouble with a rifle but shot guns are really troublesome.

I am another right handed left eyed. I solved the problem in my youth, partly due to a scar that makes it difficult for me to close my left eye lid independently.

This encouraged me to experiment with both right and left handed shooting. In time and with practise I learned to shoot both right and left handed. I would say I am an ambidextrous shooter and will take the shots comfortably either right or left. When I shoot left handed I use my left eye with my right eye closed. When I shoot right handed I have both eyes open. I concentrate and look through the scope with my right eye, this temporarily moves the dominant eye to the right. The only way to do this is with practice practice practice !

With practice and time right hand shooting will become the norm, but when required a left hand shot seems natural. 

However, the dominant left eye is alway present in the peripheral vision.

I'm almost 70, left eye dominant right hand shooter forever. Close your left eye and concentrate on keeping the scope centered and reticle straight up and a lot of practice. I shoot as well or better than most. Pistols are a different story. I use both eyes open.

I have something similar going on, closer to ambidextrous though, I'm left handed right side dominant. My eye(for shooting) can go either way though I've always shot right handed, When I practice shooting left handed/eyed for a week or so it doesn't seem to matter. Those who were taught the triangle method of determining dominant eye have been done a disservice.

On a side note in my line of wok as a carpenter I can swing my hammer, use a nail gun, cut on either the left or right side of the board and so on with equal precision. The only thing my right side is better at is throwing/kicking. It looks like a five year old writing when i use my right hand. Also if throwing or kicking with my left side I look like a five year old with no athletic ability as well.

There is no need for cross orientation, in my experience as a pistol shooter. I used to shoot right handed, right eye dominant. This was fine until arthritis forced me to switch over to the left hand. After one month of daily practice, my scores were back to normal. However, I did not like the change in shooting stance needed to accommodate left hand shooting - right eye aim. For another month of practice with my right eye covered, I shot once more comfortably. Since then I shoot with both eyes open, left handed, left eye aligned with the sights. I should mention, I only shoot with open sights.

Eye dominance can be changed, with a bit of patience. A simple test confirms, I am now left eye dominant. This kind of change is not just possible for young people. I did it at age 68.

OzzieM