tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post8750288928241144907..comments2024-03-21T18:54:06.548-07:00Comments on Old Enough to Know Better: Bang ...Steve Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-38363559690132132962010-08-07T08:43:19.618-07:002010-08-07T08:43:19.618-07:00One other benefit of the .22... Ammo is relativel...One other benefit of the .22... Ammo is relatively cheap!<br /><br /><br />As to the cross-dominant eye... For handgun, it's not really an issue. If you close one eye while shooting, you'll almost naturally line up the pistol with that eye. You're reaching across your face by a couple of inches. If you keep your eyes open -- same thing, really.<br /><br />For rifle/shotgun, it can be more of an issue. Depending on how dominant the dominant eye is (I'm right handed, but VERY left eye dominant), you just shoot 'em lefty.jks9199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-59666297676546977142010-08-07T02:05:07.522-07:002010-08-07T02:05:07.522-07:00I lost central vision in one eye a long time ago. ...I lost central vision in one eye a long time ago. It didn't bother my pistol shooting much except when I catch an ejected shell with some pistols - ejected brass from a 44 Desert Eagle drew some blood on my forehead - noticed it after a day of shooting just after I lost the vision. Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that pistol - glad it wasn't my pistol, too much gun for me and too spendy to shoot often - for me. <br /><br />I do now have to shoot left handed with rifles - if I want to use the sights. <br /><br />Looks like the kids got a great first lesson and had some fun.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441344447548078615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-79368891188054876992010-08-06T11:18:48.346-07:002010-08-06T11:18:48.346-07:00Hasn't hurt me too much yet. I've found o...Hasn't hurt me too much yet. I've found over the years that I'm right hand dominant, but I sight through my left eye when I'm shooting handguns. I look through a scope on a rifle with my right eye, though. :-)<br /><br />AaronAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-33717777055946590322010-08-06T09:34:42.610-07:002010-08-06T09:34:42.610-07:00I can't see that it would be much of a problem...I can't see that it would be much of a problem. If you use the dominant eye and it is opposite, it needs only a small positional shift for a handgun. Looking at somebody doing it, you probably couldn't tell. <br /><br />For a scoped rifle, it'd be a bit tougher, but you can teach yourself how to use your non-dominant eye, and if you close one eye when you shoot to better focus on the sights, you use the other one anyhow.<br /><br />A lot of handgun shooters learn how to keep both eyes open. The dominant eye tends to take over and you adjust the weapon accordingly.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-78244959286354672392010-08-06T05:41:11.244-07:002010-08-06T05:41:11.244-07:00"The boys were all right-handed, save one, an..."The boys were all right-handed, save one, and I think everybody was right-eye dominant."<br /><br />Being a confused person myself (left handed for some things, right handed for others), I'm curious how being dominant in one eye but in the opposite hand affects shooting (never having discharged any sort of firearm, myself). Is it intrinsically harder? Or is it just learning things a bit differently than someone who is right-right or left-left? Or does it have no measurable effect?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com