Posted: 3/23/2004 9:04:01 PM EDT
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How do you figure out what your dominant eye is without access to a firearm? I'm on a college campus, so all my goodies are at home. Whats something that can be done to figure this out? I'm a "better than average" handgun shot, but I think some of it may have to do with using the left eye, and being right handed. Scott |
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Easiest way: Hold up a finger verticaly on the hand you hold your weapon with, use it to point at something as you would a front sight, with both eyes open focus on that finger. Close each eye without moving finger, the non dominant eye will shift point of aim while dominant will remain constant. |
Damn! I never knew THAT! That's a neat trick! |
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Not working for me... The point I pick on the wall determines which one appears to make the shift. Since you focus on the finger, the object you aim at with the finger...well, you see two of them. If I aim at the left one...it appears I am left eye dominant...aim at the right one, I am right eye dominant according to your trick. Unless I am overthinking this...but I can't see how it works |
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try this. put a small object like a coin or paper clip on a table. point your index and middle fingers up palm away from you and separate them one finger width apart so they form a narow "V". move the fingers about 12" away from the object and so the object is between the two fingers. open and close each eye. if the finger on the right side of the "V" suddenly jumps over the object you are left eye dominant. |
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the official way---according to the WY Game and Fish! Make a triangle with your thumbs and pointer fingers. Look through the triangle formed with your hands at a small object or dot. Slowly move the triangle towards your eyes. Which ever eye it ends up at is your dominant eye. It works. My son, 10, just found out that he is left eye dominant, and right handed. Tough to train him to shoot open sights with a rifle, but he does just fine with a pistol. I put a scope on his rifle, and he is now training his right eye to be dominant. It forces him to look with the correct eye. It works. |
| Another way is to make a circle with both hands/fingers looking at say a light switch with both eyes open. Close one eye then the other and which ever eye the switch stays in the circle is your dominate eye. I'm right handed and left eye dominate. I didn't know this till about 15 years ago and my accuracy shooting a pistol increased dramatically after switching eyes. I do still shoot a rifle right eyed. I guess practice and muscle memory makes this something I really don't think about while shooting. |
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That triangle method works well. I used to be left eye dominant and then in the course of shooting a lot I got lazy on closeing my left eye using the iron sights and fianlly I realized I was shooting with both eyes open and realized I had actually become right eye dominant. That happens, you can change eye dominancy. |