At the last match, we had to shoot around both sides of a barrel, switching between weak and strong side. Most shooters were changing shoulders and hand positions. I almost tried shooting by just changing shoulders, while keeping my right hand on the trigger and left hand on the forward handguard. What do the experts recommend. I'm going to try and master this but didn't know if others had opinions about this.

I once asked my shooting coach about "Weak Hand" shooting and he promptly replied back, "What's a weak hand?......I don't understand......." I have since adopted that mentality. His concept was that there will be times where you will have to shoot using your left hand as well as your right hand. HIs point was to be profficient with both hands as best as you can.

This being said, I have shot at matches where I was on the left side of a barracade and just leaned over to get the gun which was in my right hand to clear the obstacle but I have also been to matches where it was mandatory to switch hands which is when I was thankful that I practiced with my left hand both two hand and one hand grip.

I don't consider myself to be the all knowing expert...just lucky enough to have had some great advice and teachings from some great shooters. Good luck in future matches.

I practice offside/support side/even weaker side rifle shooting quite a bit and am pretty good at it. That being said, at a match I would do almost anything to not switch to my support as it is a time killer. I even shot a rifle rolled upside down over my primary shoulder a few years ago at FB3G on a couple of close range targets to avoid making the switch to support side. This saved a second or two and resulted in a stage win.

BUT it is a skill that you have to work on mastering. Larue 09 had us shooting MGMs support side prone at over 250 yards. I've shot other matches that mandate switching up. As soon as you can't do something well, a match will come along to test that skill.

I am extremely right eye dominant and could not shoot off my left shoulder until I learned to close my right eye. BUT we are all different with different degrees of eye dominance so you need to find out what works for you.