John made a similar comment in the CQC class this month.OldCannon wrote:Greg Hamilton, John Holschen, (from Insights training) and I had an interesting conversation about this in one of their classes. I'm left-eye dominant and right-handed as a shooter (but left-handed with writing - I'm a weird one). When the discussion went to the whole cross-dominance/both-eyes-open thing, Greg made an interesting statement. He said this distance:
Left Eye <-------------------------------------------> Right eye
is all you have to worry about. Whether you're shooting left or right handed (and you should train "weak-hand" shooting as well this way), is to shift the position of the pistol just a couple inches either way in an "isosceles" position, which is VERY easy to do.
He also said you don't lose much (if anything) by closing one eye while shooting. Not saying to walk around like a cyclops, but while the sights are on target and finger is on the trigger, he says it's perfectly fine to close one eye if that gives you a better sight picture and you shoot better. Something to think about for those struggling to keep both eyes open.