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Paladin wrote:for sighed shooting, I'd suggest training to close one eye. That way you will always be consistent. Consistency is vital to developing accuracy.

For target focused shooting, just keep 'em both open Kill or get Killed. You simply index your body and the gun to the target.

LOL. That reminds me of the first (and only) time I tried to "aim by pointing my index finger at the target" (during a class related to defensive shooting). I missed so badly it wasn't even funny. It's years ago now, so my memory is getting foggy, but I don't think I even hit the target - a paper plate at something like 3 or 5 yards. That was the same class where I was told "shoot with both eyes open" and discovered that I have this problem of what I not-so-fondly call "conditional dominance" with my eyes.

LittleGun wrote:I shoot with both eyes open. It feels natural to me. I am right-eye dominant, but did not know it until someone pointed it out to me. It never mattered to me which I was dominant.

I even shoot rifle with both eyes open. Again it is natural for me. It seems to me that if you shoot with both eyes open, it doesn't matter which eye is dominant for any particlar situation; that the brain should integrate the scene.

I'm not a vision specialist. I'm just musing.

Wow. I can't even imagine this. I would say you are lucky, except that maybe yours is the norm. I dunno. I'm sure happy for you. That has to be nice.

If I have both eyes open, as often as not I couldn't tell you where the gun was pointed - my right eye rear sight could very easily line up with my left eye front sight, putting the gun aimed seriously cross-range. I really honestly (often) can not tell which image goes with which eye, and it is definitively not an automatic thing for me to have it line up correctly.

I guess that may be part of the challenge for me - my brain doesn't seem to automatically integrate the scene. Hmmm... wonder if there is a way I can train it. How do I make it recognize that rear sight 1 goes with front sight 1? How do I make it recognize the continuity of image and not let the other eye's input confuse the issue? (musing out loud, myself)

MoJoeWrkn's post about Shooting with both eyes open got me thinking about my trying to aim with both eyes open.

My dominant eye seems to be dependent on the contrast downrange. While I am mostly right eye dominant, there are plenty enough times where my left eye has more contrast and grabs dominance. At least that's how it feels to me - the only way I know for sure I am looking at the correct rear sight lining up with the correct front sight lining up with the correct target is to close my left eye. Lots of times I do this and I find out I'm fine and good to go. But almost as often I find out yup, left eye was screwing me up.

Is this common, or am I really as strange as my husband says I am?

More importantly, though, does anyone have suggestions on what I might do to better be able to know I'm lined up correctly without closing that pesky left eye?