Posted: 3/2/2009 8:23:32 AM EDT
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Is there a forum for it?
What is the best way to aim with the EOTECH with both eyes open or with one. To me it seems I have to adjust the way I look through the sight just get close a 25 yard target. I thought it was point and shoot with those sights. |
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Why don't you tell us which is your dominant eye, whether you are shooting strong side right or strong side left, and how the optic is mounted and what firearm it is mounted on, and we can be more helpful.
Using one eye only negates alot of the advantages of a red dot. Something is wrong. |
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Right eye dominate. Mounted on a Flat top AR. It just seems I adjust my head a bit and the sight is off. as long as you can see the reticle in the window, it should be on target. It doesn't matter if the reticle is way up in the corner of the window; if you can see it, then it is on target. |
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Right eye dominate. Mounted on a Flat top AR. It just seems I adjust my head a bit and the sight is off. as long as you can see the reticle in the window, it should be on target. It doesn't matter if the reticle is way up in the corner of the window; if you can see it, then it is on target. Assuming the sight has been zeroed. 
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Right eye dominate. Mounted on a Flat top AR. It just seems I adjust my head a bit and the sight is off. as long as you can see the reticle in the window, it should be on target. It doesn't matter if the reticle is way up in the corner of the window; if you can see it, then it is on target. +1 That's the beauty of a parallax free optic. |
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I've found that when you mount an Eotech directly to the rail, you have to have too tight of a check weld to really get a good look down the Eotech, it's just too low to use a reflex sight how it was intended.
I've also found that when I have to tilt my head and get a nice cheek weld, I naturally tend to close my left eye slightly as if I was going to use the iron. I learned that with a mount to raise the EOtech up off the rail a bit, it's more natural to keep both eyes open and just bring the EOtech into your field of view. I was dead set on an absolute co-witness but when I actually mounted it directly to the rail, I found all this out. So I spend $35 and got a YHM eotech mount and everything is perfect now. I can still see my irons through the very bottom of the Eotech glass also so I didn't loose any functionality with the Irons but now I can actually use my reflex sight as intended. |
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Not the OP, but I gotta ask, since I'm cross dominant (right handed, left eye dominant) should I start to practice shooting left handed?  Yes. It will be the BEST thing for your shooting that you have ever done. I see no need to shoot pistols lefty, but when I switched long guns to left, it was freaking night and day. The improvement in speed and precision was immediate. It only took me about 50 shots before it no longer felt awkward at all. It felt completely natural after a few hundred. Do it. |
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Not the OP, but I gotta ask, since I'm cross dominant (right handed, left eye dominant) should I start to practice shooting left handed? Yes. It will be the BEST thing for your shooting that you have ever done. I see no need to shoot pistols lefty, but when I switched long guns to left, it was freaking night and day. The improvement in speed and precision was immediate. It only took me about 50 shots before it no longer felt awkward at all. It felt completely natural after a few hundred. Do it. +1 I had a friend that was in the same boat, he shot with his non-dominant eye for a long time. He was righthanded and left eye dominant. At first, it felt uncomfortable shooting with his dominant eye, but now he is much more accurate. |
| The Eotech is a CQB sight. Directly on a flat top M4, collapsed stock with stock up against your clavicle, just to the right of your chin, in a modified weaver combat stance, you don't need a cheek weld. It is shot more like a pistol than a rifle and both eyes open. If you are shooting it from a rifle stance you are not taking advantage of the sight. JMO |
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I've found that when you mount an Eotech directly to the rail, you have to have too tight of a check weld to really get a good look down the Eotech, it's just too low to use a reflex sight how it was intended. I've also found that when I have to tilt my head and get a nice cheek weld, I naturally tend to close my left eye slightly as if I was going to use the iron. I learned that with a mount to raise the EOtech up off the rail a bit, it's more natural to keep both eyes open and just bring the EOtech into your field of view. I was dead set on an absolute co-witness but when I actually mounted it directly to the rail, I found all this out. So I spend $35 and got a YHM eotech mount and everything is perfect now. I can still see my irons through the very bottom of the Eotech glass also so I didn't loose any functionality with the Irons but now I can actually use my reflex sight as intended. All true for me as well, except I use a LaRue mount. |
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I've found that when you mount an Eotech directly to the rail, you have to have too tight of a check weld to really get a good look down the Eotech, it's just too low to use a reflex sight how it was intended. I've also found that when I have to tilt my head and get a nice cheek weld, I naturally tend to close my left eye slightly as if I was going to use the iron. I learned that with a mount to raise the EOtech up off the rail a bit, it's more natural to keep both eyes open and just bring the EOtech into your field of view. I was dead set on an absolute co-witness but when I actually mounted it directly to the rail, I found all this out. So I spend $35 and got a YHM eotech mount and everything is perfect now. I can still see my irons through the very bottom of the Eotech glass also so I didn't loose any functionality with the Irons but now I can actually use my reflex sight as intended. All true for me as well, except I use a LaRue mount. I wanted the Larue mount to match my rear BUIS but I just couldn't spend 3 times as much on something as simple as a rail. I felt like I wasn't really getting anymore more for 3 times the amount. |
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I've found that when you mount an Eotech directly to the rail, you have to have too tight of a check weld to really get a good look down the Eotech, it's just too low to use a reflex sight how it was intended. I've also found that when I have to tilt my head and get a nice cheek weld, I naturally tend to close my left eye slightly as if I was going to use the iron. I learned that with a mount to raise the EOtech up off the rail a bit, it's more natural to keep both eyes open and just bring the EOtech into your field of view. I was dead set on an absolute co-witness but when I actually mounted it directly to the rail, I found all this out. So I spend $35 and got a YHM eotech mount and everything is perfect now. I can still see my irons through the very bottom of the Eotech glass also so I didn't loose any functionality with the Irons but now I can actually use my reflex sight as intended. All true for me as well, except I use a LaRue mount. I wanted the Larue mount to match my rear BUIS but I just couldn't spend 3 times as much on something as simple as a rail. I felt like I wasn't really getting anymore more for 3 times the amount. I'm sure you're right. Though I do have a YHM folding front sight/gas block and the overall build is not quite up to LaRue standards. |
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Cross dominant person here who runs an EOTech.
I use both eyes open with the dominant eye looking down the sights (my left eye) and I shoot the rifle left handed. I have had very little problems doing this. When I shoot weak side I want to shut my left eye out of habit but have taught myself not to do that so I always have both eyes open. I run it right on the upper receiver rail without issue. Rear folding BUIS helps. |