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gigag04 wrote:Rifles don't have to be shot lefty.

I've run thousands of rounds through a rifle from various shooting positions. You can retrain the right eye to be up or it. I got there by half closing my left. Little loss of field of view, but significant increase in speed and comfort with the platform.

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One should also consider platforms where you can(should) really only shoot right-handed, like the M-1. There's also a lot [abbreviated profanity deleted] be said for the practicality of being able to operate one in case, um, zombies attack and your wingman just got devoured. You can pick his rifle and get back in the fight. [ok, even I will admit that scenario made NO sense at all ]

I'm a LERH too (Left Eyed, Right Handed). Here's a few things to keep in mind:

Pistol shooting:
- Isosceles stance only. Don't do "weaver" style stuff, which moves gun alignment on the right side.
- Positioning: An isosceles stance puts the human body in a well-supported triangle stance, and requires shifting the pistol alignment _slightly_ depending on the eye. This means he has to shift about <---------- This much -----------> at the most to align his pistol sights to his left eye. One _could_ claim that it strains the distance a little more for the trigger hand, but it's not really significant, and the return benefit is that the support hand (left) gains a little more strength, so it evens out.
- One cool advantage: You're now capable of handling both "strong" and "weak" side shooting scenarios

Rifle shooting:
- Both eyes open shooting is at a significant disadvantage, due to the left eye wanting to dominate
- Repeated training of "relaxing" the left eyelid (not shutting, not squinting) will naturally allow the right eye to take over dominance (the brain does this VERY quickly). This takes time and patience to learn though, but hey -- you practice shooting a lot, so how can that be bad?
- Eye patches are not recommended for safety reasons ( people don't really shoot with eye patches, except on International Talk Like A Pirate Day). There is also a very significant safety issue as well, as we lose our stereoscopic sight advantage. This is critical for good shooting at any distance (and if you have to shoot and move, like in a USPSA event, you might very well be told to remove the patch for safety reasons, so you're back to square one).