Dominant eye?

OK.....maybe I am trying too hard. Getting back into shooting after a 30+ year hiatus and, as is my nature, trying to read and watch anything that will help. So I am reading something the other day about shooting with your dominant eye. New to me, so I did some research and found a couple ways to test for which one that may be. Tried a couple and discovered that, apparently, my left eye is dominant. I put my finger on an object in the distance and alternate closing an eye - left eye on target. I form a triangle with my hands, center it on an object, and keep it in the triangle as I bring it my hands back to my face - left eye dominant. Problem is, I am extremely right handed. Looking back, I can remember that I always used my left eye to aim when qualifying with the .45 in the military.

But I tried today, and there is just no way to get my left eye into the scope shooting right handed. Anyone else have this problem? What do you do? I mean, I can see through the scope with my right eye, but just wondering how people handle that or if it really is not that big a deal.
 
It is possible to shoot like you are saying. But not very conducive to good shooting. I’m left eye dominant and right handed but now shoot right handed 80% of the time. But it is fun to be able to switch back and forth for hunting situations. I had a coach tell me to switch when I was younger, he said that after you build up the muscle memory you may get more accurate. Somthing about being able to focus better.
 
 also right handed ,left eye dominant,I shoot lefty,butt both my eyes are open.I shot a pistol right handed,butt it is centered more to the middle of my body.I do practiced with both hands,it just takes longer to aim and pull off a shoot with opposite hand,still accurate though.I wonder if that is one of the reason some people can't think straight?
 
I too am left eye dominant, but primarily right handed.

I have been trained in the past by some of the best marksmen on the planet, when I began my quest of rifle perfection competing in 3 position smallbore rifle.

My coaches at the time tried to get me to shoot left handed, which was not comfortable, nor natural to me.

My coaches solved this problem by putting a blinder on the gun sights, allowing me to do something very important as far as shooting is concerned......shoot with both eyes open. They did not want me to close the dominant eye, because the other eye would try to shut off some of the light getting to it, and rapidly changing back when the eye was reopened. This leads to eye fatigue, blurry sight pictures, and a lot of misses.

These many years later, competing in Field Target, we use scopes in liew of iron or peep sights. What I like to do is turn the rear scope cap when it is opened, to the left. This acts as a blinder for my left and dominant eye. Works very well, and also in reverse if someone is left handed and right eye dominant as well



Tom Holland 
 
What I like to do is turn the rear scope cap when it is opened, to the left. This acts as a blinder for my left and dominant eye. Works very well, and also in reverse if someone is left handed and right eye dominant as well



Tom Holland

Now that sounds like a good idea. I don't have a scope cap on it at the moment, but I can get one. I though about some kind of flip down for glasses, but hadn't found one.
 
I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I shoot pistols right handed and rifles left handed - don't know why but that's how I just started with bb guns back when I was 8-9 years old and it's stuck with me for the past 30+ years. If I try to shoot a pistol left handed I am horrible. If I try to shoot a rifle right handed I am just so-so.

YMMV but I'd say try shooting the rifle left handed consistently for like a month and it may just become natural for you.