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Posted: 5/12/2015 9:13:15 AM EDT
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Hey everyone, I didn't know where else to post this topic. Over the past couple years I have been teaching my wife about firearms. She has picked up on things quiet well, and I am a proud husband. However, we have come across a snag. When it comes to pistols, my wife can hit anything put in front of her, with good grouping. Unfortunately, when it comes to rifles, she can't hit the broad side of a barn from the inside. I know that sounds funny, and yes, it is...  To the ladies reading this, I am naturally smartass-infected from birth, and I mean no disrespect to my wife (or any woman) and her rifle handling.
Now that that is out of the way, on to the issue at hand. The main problem my wife & I have discovered is that she is "Cross-eye Dominate" during our conceal carry class about a 1.5yr ago. In this case, my wife right-hand & left-eye dominate. Because of this, my wife has to shoot with her head tilted almost all the way over the stock. In doing so, I noticed that the weapon's barrel gets tilted way up. On my AR, I installed a red-dot sight, but that didn't help to much, and I don't have any scopes to try out. We tried having her shoot LH with rifles, but the weapons don't fit right for her when held that way. So we are back to RH weapon held with L-Eye sight. Has anyone else had this issue, and had it corrected? How was the issue corrected? What are some low-cost/no-cost remedies for this? |
| I have the same issue which I just discovered about a year ago. I was frustrated shooting long guns all the time. I have just embraced it and begun shooting my AR and shotgun lefty. It's really difficult to use the left eye when holding the gun on the right. It takes a little getting used to but since you're using large muscles to control the gun I have not found it to be difficult at all. I've read articles about re-training your eyes, like using scotch tape over your glasses to force the other eye to take over but I've never tried it. Try having her shoot the rifle on the left and she'll be GTG. |
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Is anything wrong with her right eye that prevents her from using it? I understand it may feel more natural using her left eye, unless she has some sort of vision problem with her right eye their is no reason she can't learn to use it..
I had a buddy some 30 years ago that had this same problem. With certain rifles that he could actually line the sights up on he shot okay... the vast majority of rifles however didn't allow him to line up the sights or sight(scope). What we did is train him to use his right eye. At first we used eyepro with the left eye lens blacked out with tape so he couldn't see out of it. After some range time he started to get use to using his right eye and started to naturally bring up the rifle to his right eye. Once here, we removed the tape and had him just close off his left eye when shooting. With the tape removed, every now and then he would forget and try to use his left eye, he'd correct this fairly quickly and for the most part he was using he right eye and shooting well. Bobby never did get to the point he could shoot rifles with both eyes open.. if he didn't close off his left eye he ended up trying to use it for sighting or was looking down the left side of the rifle. |
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Try placing a piece of cloudy scotch tape over her left eyepiece. It will allow her to shoot with both eyes open but she won't be able to focus on anything with her left eye.
Whether she uses shooting glasses or standard glasses this will help her focus only one eye on the sights at a time. |
| Another thing to try, when shooting right handed,; squint the left eye without closing it. See if the right eye will take over. I am right hand / right eye dominant, but I find that my left eye will take over sometimes. So, I squint my left eye without closing it, and my right eye takes back over. |
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