Two eyes now but I catch myself slipping sometimes. I also squint one every once in a while but I think that is more because of my crappy eyesight than anything
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Two eyes now but I catch myself slipping sometimes. I also squint one every once in a while but I think that is more because of my crappy eyesight than anything
Like many, I try to shoot with two eyes open (for pistol), but will sometimes close my left eye to help acquire sight picture. I couldn't imagine shooting a rifle with both eyes open unless it a Red Dot, or maybe just iron sights. The only rifle I have is a peep hole, so I close one eye.
Two eyes for Pistol and one eye for Rifle. When I had my Eotech for the AR, it was two eyes, but since i've gone back to irons, its one.
One eye, both eyes... Doesn't matter. The question is flawed to begin with. What gun at what range with what type of sights? A iron sight pistol at 10 feet is both eyes open and a general sight picture. A 22x scope at 600 yards is left eye firmly shut. An iron sight pistol at 12 yds is left eye open but squinted, but a pistol with a red dot C-more is both eyes open on the same shot. M-4 with a 1x red dot or iron sights at 50 yards, then both eyes open. Same set up but a 300 yd shot left eye is shut. An iron sight pistol at 50 yds is left eye firmly shut. Getting shot at is both eyes bulging, pistol aimed in the general area of the shooting and me running the other way.
What you see and how fast you can react to it is what determines a D class shooter from a Grand Master. This subject is deep enough to write books about it.
I'm screwed then being left eye dominant !! [ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by SA Friday
Shotgun with both eyes open. Rifles and pistols, left eye shut.
Two eyes. Tunnel vision is very dangerous for a myriad of reasons. Periphal vision let's you keep track of other targets while engaging the primary.
For pistol work, try some close quarter point shooting with both eyes open. After a few rounds, go ahead and aim as usual. Then more point shooting, etc. For a while try switching hands and eyes... I guess what I'm saying is that I doubt there will ever be a situation where you'll get to sit there for 5 minutes and aim a pistol shot. So go ahead and get some time in using both hands and both eyes in alternating progressives so that you literally can just "point and click" with some degree of accuracy.....
Even on shotty and long guns I use both eyes open. People who spend a lot of time on rifle scopes need to be cognizant to not develop tunnel vision. That baing said, if your job is to take the 1K shot... the I would expect it to be one eyed for the utmost concentration, less distraction, etc..
eh, but what do I know? I'm just a keyboard comando or whatever the terminology is.
Two eyes, long guns and hand guns.
I'll close one eye if I'm doing long range precision shooting, but that's the only time.
I didn't realize how much I was one eyeshooting til I took a class. It took a bunch of dry firing, but now I shoot two eyes open 99% of the time. from about 7-10 yards in I have a target focus and 'see' the sights, past 10 I switch to a front sight focus and then past 25-30 I switch to a single eye. I don't shoot past 25 that often at all. This allows me to hit plate sized areas as fast as I can shoot under 10 yards, as fast as I can see the sights between 10-25, and as fast as I want to waste ammo past 25 ;) . It all happens seemlessly as the shots get harder.
I did switch to a fiber optic front sight, and I think that helps alot in re-aquiring the sights during rapid shooting. I highly suggest it.
The key was dry firing bad actors on the TV at home- it seems you train your brain to disregard the 'second set' of sights. You actually see with you brain, not your eyes- so eventually your brain will filter out the wrong set of sights- be it the whole gun when you have a target focus, or the rear sight when you have a front sight focus. Then I went to the range with a 22 and shot 900 rounds one day, a few hundred on some other days. Just trigger pull and sight acquisition.
I can and do shoot scoped rifles, Iron sight rifles, and handguns with both eyes open, but I can't make myself do it with a shotgun.