Left Eye Dominant (Page 6): I am left eye dominant and I have no trouble with shooting, I do close my right eye in most cases. I am left handed, but I shoot a gun right handed. All the...

richz Loc: upstate New York

I am left eye dominant and I have no trouble with shooting, I do close my right eye in most cases. I am left handed, but I shoot a gun right handed. All the people I know that are left handed are also left eye dominant.

twitcher32 Loc: North Carolina/Costa Rica

Yes, this is an interesting thread and have already replied that I shoot from the left shoulder and aim with my left eye/right eye closed, but I find it most interesting because I never thought about all the things I do left or right handed - I just do them. This thread has caused me to examine whether they are done left or right handed. Oh yeah, have you ever seen a formal butter knife that was offset for a lefty: nope they are all right-handed.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

Like you I'm right handed, left eye dominant. Only caused a problem immediately after cataract surgery when vision in the left eye was blurred. What really caused a problem was trying to shoot left eyed, right handed - my father couldn't understand how I could not even hit the huge tree to which the target was pinned.

Falcon Loc: Abilene, Texas

twitcher32 wrote:

Yes, this is an interesting thread and have already replied that I shoot from the left shoulder and aim with my left eye/right eye closed, but I find it most interesting because I never thought about all the things I do left or right handed - I just do them. This thread has caused me to examine whether they are done left or right handed. Oh yeah, have you ever seen a formal butter knife that was offset for a lefty: nope they are all right-handed.

On the other hand, all tape measures are made for left-handers! If you are holding your pencil in your right hand and the tape in your left hand, the numbers are upside down.

OriginalCyn Loc: Connecticut

I went to the shooting range this weekend...I shot for the first time with both eyes open! hit my target more consistently, I think. I tried a new gun for me...a Sig Sauer 9 mm? Not sure if that was spelled correctly. Felt like a lot of gun:)

twitcher32 Loc: North Carolina/Costa Rica

for once the leftys got it right

professorwheeze Loc: Maine, USA

I am a righty but also learned early on to keep both eyes open. In college, a few decades ago, it became very important to look into a microscope for hours with both eyes opened to avoid eye strain. At that time it was already natural for me to have both opened. In shooting group pictures, I have found it important to have one eye through the camera and the other gathering some info about the group as the shutter is released. Again, if you use a tripod and a remote shutter release, it is possible to have both eyes on the subject, whether it be a group or even a landscape (in which a kid or a car or blown-trash suddenly appears--landscapes are really not static).

Now, I've been up since 0400, so I am shutting BOTH eyes!

LittleRedFish Loc: Naw'lens (New Orleans)

Old Timer wrote:

How many of you out there are left eye dominant, and do you find it a problem some time to see thru the view finder properly under certain conditions, especially in cold weather when your breath steams up the view finder. I do not care for live view most of the time. The only way I can use the right eye is to shut the left. Also your nose seems to be in the way.

I don't really have a dominant eye. Which is a problem in wearing contact lens when you need bi-focal. So I can't wear them. But, I'm almost as handy with my right hand as I am with my left hand, so maybe that's why I see out of both eyes almost equally.

professorwheeze Loc: Maine, USA

I too hear you! I've got a stack of bills (mostly black and white occasionally in red ink).

professorwheeze Loc: Maine, USA

OriginalCyn wrote:

I went to the shooting range this weekend...I shot for the first time with both eyes open! hit my target more consistently, I think. I tried a new gun for me...a Sig Sauer 9 mm? Not sure if that was spelled correctly. Felt like a lot of gun:)

Do you let your students know that you're a shooter? Guess it would help to motivate them! Sig Sauer is a great piece. If memory still serves me, 007's favorite was a Sig Sauer 9 mm hopefully beore he frank his martini --stirred not shaken.

OriginalCyn Loc: Connecticut

professorwheeze wrote:

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Ha...no, I use other methods of motivation. Frank or drank?

professorwheeze Loc: Maine, USA

drank!

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

I'm a lefty and left eye dominant.

Nikonian72, basically all camera grips are left handed, because the shutter release is on the right.

I have a complete set of left handed screw drivers too, makes life so much easier.

chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon

What handed you are has no relationship to what eye is dominate. It is good to know your dominate eye. When training people with firearms your dominate eye determines if you should shoot from the right or left. It is best to keep both eyes open when shooting firearms because you have depth perception. I think the same would apply to using a camera. I am opposite eye dominate and use live view because of some injuries.

Pilgrim Loc: Willow Grove, (SE) PA

As an addendum to this discussion I'll add a few things.
I write left handed, but not in the usual way leftied do - I do not "hook." I write in an exact mirror image of a rightie, so do my daughters.
All through elementary school the teacher would come by my desk, take the pencil out of my left hand and put it into my right hand, all the while telling me that the left hand was that of the devil! (Is the devil left handed?) Well, it may be, but my left hand makes and repairs furniture, makes stained glass windows and I am a LEFT HANDED drummer (I always got stuck at the end of the drum line so my drum didn't bang against the righties' drums.
I'm pretty ambidextrous, but in a 90% rightie world you have to be. I play golf righthanded but am a switch hitter in baseball.
I am also left foot dominant. Again, as a leftie you must learn to live in a righthanded world.
I am right eyed for photography, but left eyed with a rifle and pistol.
My hero is the leftie, Leonardo (but I can't paint like him, other than with a roller!)