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Posted: 6/29/2008 8:32:45 AM EDT
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I'm in kind of a wierd dilema... henI AM ASKING is thoughts on my dilema. thanks guys |
| Thats a good question, I am interested to hear what other, more experienced shooters think. I think that if you are still comfortable shooting left handed, as in you have not gone years with out shooting, then it would be fine to go with a lefty AR. Otherwise you might be surprised how quickly you could "learn" to shoot right handed. |
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A righty AR can still be fired lefty. I consider it useful to be able to fire from either shoulder. Unlike me, you can choose to shoot righty and get a decent sight picture with standard irons. I'm blind in my right eye, so that makes things interesting when I try to shoot righty. |
| It depends on which eye is your dominant eye. Hold your hands out in front of your face making a hole between your thumbs and forefingers. Focus on an object through the hole you have made with your hands. Once you have focused on the object, close one eye while looking at the object with the other eye open. Repeat this process for both eyes. When the object disappears that means you closed your dominant eye. I would recommend learning to shoot from the dominant eye side. this is my opinion. |
| I'm left-handed but right eye dominant, and have no problem shooting left- or right-handed. I generally shoot with both eyes open, and even though I'm right-eye dominant I can easily shift my vision to concentrate on my sight picture with my left eye. I say buy whatever you want with an A2/A3/A4 upper and stick to shooting lefty. |
+1 This is considered the "rule" among coaches that teach shooting. One can learn to shoot either way, but shooting via the dominant eye is the quickest and best way from most sources. |
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The fact that you shoot long arms left handed doesnt mean you need a left handed gun. And if you buy a standard AR, its not limited to your right side. Get a standard AR and fire it from whichever shoulder you choose. I've been firing mine from the wrong shoulder for years. |
| If you are more comfortable shooting left-handed I recommend you get a left-handed AR-15. Even though the newer style receivers have a brass deflector that prevents the brass from going down your shirt, the ejection port is still by your face and in the event of a catastrophic failure or kaboom thats NOT where you want your face to be. With a lefty upper the ejection port would be on the opposite side of the rifle... |
| Im mostly left handed and left eye dominant , I write left handed and shoot left handed, but I play baseball and all sports right handed. I have shot right handed guns all my life except for my deer rifle a LH Remington 700 and im probably the slowest at cycling the bolt in that one. If It were me I would stick to the RH models unless the shell ejection bothers you(I never ever see the shell when in shooting) |
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Check, check, and recheck eye dominance. There are numerous ways to do it alone or with somebody. You should shoot with the dominant eye. Try these various methods a few times. Some folks (very few) have nearly equal eyes, sometimes dominance changes. If you don't shoot with the dominant eye, you are "making do" and limiting your success. 1. Take both index fingers and put one near your face and one extended arms length. Focus down them like rifle sights on a point 5-20 ft away. Close one eye if there is no change in alinement the eye that is still open is the dominant one. If it changes it was the weaker one. Do this a few times. 2. Put your hands together one on top of the other, similar to if you were diving in the water. Leave a small triangular opening above your thumbs. Extend this position to arms length and focus on an object 10-20 ft away. Slowly move your hands rearward until they touch your face. The hole will come back to your dominant eye. Again repeat a few times. A slight variation of this is to have a person stand 10 to 20 ft away from you, facing you. Look through your hole at their nose. They can look through your hole and see which eye you are using. Then bring your hands back to your face. 3. This last method that I will discuss is simple and foolproof, but it requires the help of another person. The other person at some random time just extends either a riflescope, monocular, or a paper towel tube(even just a rolled up piece of paper) to you and asks you to take a look at a distant object. You will take it from them with one of your hands and instinctively bring it up to your dominant eye. This method was taught to me by Paul Johnson, LTC, retired, a former AMU member, and current NCDS instructor. This works best when you are not expecting it. Shoot with your dominant eye if at all possible. You are limiting yourself otherwise. Ofcourse you can patch your dominat eye and use your weaker eye side if necessary due to a physical impairment that denies the use of the dominant eye side of your body. |
| I'm left-handed and shot that way in the Army and when I buy an AR it is the "correct" model. The STAG lefty is a good idea but I still opted for a STAG 2H upper for my DD lower and never have issues. My RRA doesn't give me any problems or did the Colt in the military. |
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