Hoss50 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I am basically sure my 6 year old is right handed and left eye dominant. He also can really keep 1 eye open except for his left about half way. He can't wink. Should I be teaching him to shoot rifles lefty? I am going to work on the inability to keep 1 eye open, but my wife has the same issue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildwoody Report post Posted October 2, 2018 Lots of people shoot with both eyes open. I've had some optic nerve problems that caused me to go from right eye to left eye dominant, I had an Olympic archery coach teach me how to shoot with my left eye.. Now rifles I just got better scopes to compensate for the vision.. I would try him left handed , he's young Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmoto Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I am right handed and left eye dominant. I shoot rifles, shotguns and bows left handed. Play golf, tennis and shoot a pistol right handed. Never seemed to have an issue. I use right handed rifles/shotguns that either have the safety on top or one that I can swap to the other side. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
10Turkeys Report post Posted October 2, 2018 Have him make a circle with his finger and thumb and put in front of him, have both eyes open and get the circle in the middle. Have him close one eye at a time, which ever stays in the circle is his dominant eye. If he his right handed and left eye dominant, a piece of tape will work on the left side of his glasses if you want him to shoot right handed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lucafu1 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I am RH and left eye dominate. I shoot right but I also can shoot left. Shoot pistol right hand and with both eyes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hoss50 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I did the eye hand test with him earlier tonight and both times he answered showing left eye dominant. I shoot pistol with both eyes open, and plan to teach him to shoot pistol that way. Rifles is different though. I am thinking I should teach him to shoot left, but all my hardware is setup for right handers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I found out in the lst couple yrs that I was left eye dominant. I shoot everything right handed. When i was playing ball I would bat left handed and golf left handed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cjl2010 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 Sounds like some lefty builds will be happening soon! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattys281 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 54 minutes ago, Hoss50 said: I did the eye hand test with him earlier tonight and both times he answered showing left eye dominant. I shoot pistol with both eyes open, and plan to teach him to shoot pistol that way. Rifles is different though. I am thinking I should teach him to shoot left, but all my hardware is setup for right handers. Get him an eye patch to cover his left eye while shooting until he's old enough to just close it. I bought one for myself years ago to use while glassing with a spotting scope. About $3 at wal-mart, easy peasy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cjl2010 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 If he is left eye dominant why not just have him shoot left handed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idgaf Report post Posted October 2, 2018 I'm left eye dominant and right handed. After much trial and error. I now just close my left eye. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
STOMP442 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 He's young. You can have him trained to shoot right handed pretty easy. Cover his eye and go shoot a lot. Soon it will just be muscle memory to shoulder and shoot right handed. Practice makes perfect and there will be no need to buy special rifles or equipment. Go get him an air soft rifle that you can mount a cheap throw away scope on and have him practice in the house. I'm sure a six year old would have a blast running around the house pretending to be some sort of Pirate sniper or something with a patch on his eye. Make it fun for him and it will work out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cjl2010 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 Pretty much everyone in my family is correct handed, but my kids are too young to know. Out of curiousity, why would you try to train a natural instinct out of someone? is there an advantage to making them shoot right handed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
STOMP442 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 8 minutes ago, cjl2010 said: Pretty much everyone in my family is correct handed, but my kids are too young to know. Out of curiousity, why would you try to train a natural instinct out of someone? is there an advantage to making them shoot right handed? Really the only advantage is that it makes life easier being able to use the same equipment everyone else does and not have to be stuck buying left handed rifles that are harder to come by and generally cost more as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cjl2010 Report post Posted October 2, 2018 1 minute ago, STOMP442 said: Really the only advantage is that it makes life easier being able to use the same equipment everyone else does and not have to be stuck buying left handed rifles that are harder to come by and generally cost more as well. That makes sense. Seems like the few guys I know that are left handed in a family of rights buy stocks that are ambidextrous. Lucky for those left handed guys almost all scopes are right side windage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
