Saves your night vision?
Aiming with one or both eyes
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PIGGLOVER
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I relate it to driving in a drizzle without the wipers on. You have to look through the windshield not at the windshield.
Learned from military rifle team instructors - as I wear glasses - to use both eyes. Yes, the left eye keeps your peripherals undisturbed and also your senses. Blocking the left eye puts strain on your right. And the brain to constantly be correcting. At the time I used a product called Knob-Block. A frame with single lens for the "aiming eye". The other eye left open without lens to maintain sympathetic nervous system integrity. Now many years later I use both eyes whether using iron or optics. Seems natural for me. You need light coming into the non-aiming eye.
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My dad was a WWII veteran and he was a trick shooter so, he trained me on that kind of shooting. ( ie. Splitting playing cards, putting out candle flames etc etc) When I was 9 years old I used to shoot pennies at around 20 to 25 yrds, now days, I don't know, I don't usually pay a lot of attention to groupings, I just like to shoot and have fun, I don't do a lot of what would be considered "long range" shooting but, I know I average about a 2 to 4in grouping at 100/120 yrds give or take on a 21" target depending on what type rifle I'm using and wind velocity. I dont know if thats good or not, like i said, i just like to have fun. If it's not good, feel free to make fun of me, I can take it.
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I started out closing my left eye when I was about four, (cap guns n BB guns). Roy Rogers was my idol. Then at thirteen started shooting in matches. The shooting coach taught us to keep both eyes open, but I could not do it without a blinder over my left eye. So all these years I used a blinder of some sort or the other. Last fifteen years or so I just stuck a couple targ dots on the left lense of my shooting glasses. Last year I had to get new glasses but forgot to do the targ dot thing and didn't have any targ dots so just closed my left eye. It felt so natural and relaxing to not have to fight multiple images and I shot some barn burner targets to boot. So I think a shooter should try all manner of shooting and stick with what works best. I close my left eye and I don't care what the experts teach or say about it.
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I'm left eye dominant and right handed so not. Been doing it too long and use to the way i shoot so I leave it alone.
What? You're not what? And you leave what alone?
So your vision is getting worse, (like most of as we age) and ya don't wanna wear glasses,, get lasik surgery.
Or just get over yourself, grow up and get glasses.
Or just get over yourself, grow up and get glasses.
Thats cool by me. Nice to meet ya
hanshi
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I started off and for a long time instinctively kept both eyes open when shooting. Maybe thirty years ago my vision started going south. Being right eye dominant it stood to reason that's the eye that finally went bad. Surgery on the retina did help some but it's still lousy. I do best when I shoot by sense of smell anyhow.
I aim and shoot with the right eye/shoulder and squint the left eye just to keep a general awareness of depth, etc. In hunting situations I have on occasion had to shoot left handed but that's rare.
I aim and shoot with the right eye/shoulder and squint the left eye just to keep a general awareness of depth, etc. In hunting situations I have on occasion had to shoot left handed but that's rare.
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I shoot with lefy eye(dominant) open, right eye squinted to completely closed. Just works better for me that way.
I know several right handed shooters who shoot with the left eye using offset sights. I could do that beciuase I gave it a try and a I have a rifle made that way. But shooting left handed = tricky, lol.
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Both eyes open for everything. As has been mentioned, you need light, peripheral vision, depth perception, and less eye strain. If you close one eye, you immediately lose half of your field of vision.
You can slightly close or droop the non dominate eye lid. Just not all the way. That will allow light in and preserve depth perception as well as maintaining all the other benefits.
You can slightly close or droop the non dominate eye lid. Just not all the way. That will allow light in and preserve depth perception as well as maintaining all the other benefits.
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I shoot shotgun right handed and close my left eye while shooting. I am right eye dominent. Works pretty good for me.
Yep, just about the same wordage I heard when I was thirteen. Turned out to be BS for me, lol.Both eyes open for everything. As has been mentioned, you need light, peripheral vision, depth perception, and less eye strain. If you close one eye, you immediately lose half of your field of vision.
You can slightly close or droop the non dominate eye lid. Just not all the way. That will allow light in and preserve depth perception as well as maintaining all the other benefits.
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Well I just got back from an appointment with the eye doctor And was quite surprised to hear that my vision had degraded to a measly 20-20... I wonder what I used to have because it was much better about two years ago. Never been to an eye doctor before. However this ought to level the playing field a bit when I go out hunting with my buddies
Look at something in your house you can not see clear like a calendar and then lightly clinch your hand and look through the tunnel in your palm and finger like a tube scope.Works petty good. Wear a cap light turned on and pointing at your front sight while aiming.I never thought about closing one eye.
