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Any of you guys left-eye dominant, how do you shoot a rifle and a shotgun?

Do you hold the rifle or shotty against your right arm and close your left eye to aim?

Does transitioning from shooting with a handgun left-handed hamper your shooting right-handed with a rifle or shotty?
 
masameet said:
Any of you guys left-eye dominant, how do you shoot a rifle and a shotgun?

Do you hold the rifle or shotty against your right arm and close your left eye to aim?

Does transitioning from shooting with a handgun left-handed hamper your shooting right-handed with a rifle or shotty?
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I'm a total lefty...left-eye dominant, but I learned to shoot both ways after I became annoyed with brass hitting me in the shoulder/face :laughing So yes, I close my left and shoot from the right shoulder. With the handgun, it's weird...I CAN shoot right-handed, but I prefer left. So I draw out of my right-handed holster and switch hands :rofl
 
It's easy to adapt to handguns (I can fire a handgun either way), and they issued me a deflector that attached to the ejection port of my M16 when I was in the military, so brass in the face wasn't a big issue. :)

The hardest are bolt-actions. I fire, rotate the rifle 90 degrees with my right hand (holding the fore end), work the bolt with the left hand and roll it back upright.

Fire, roll, repeat. :sniper

I don't own any semi-auto rifles or shotties.

One day when I'm rich and famous, I'll buy a left handed bolt action rifle. :laughing
 
Got today my Bersa Thunder 380ACP from High Bridge Arms.
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Went home, cleaned and oiled it, and to the Jackson Arms we go.

Ten yards. Lower group is a first clip, upper is a second one.
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Twenty yards.:teeth BG dead.
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All in all great day. Put about 150 rounds, like a charm.:)
My brother put 70 rounds through his TT.
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Shooting is fun!
 
Jesus, I thought I sucked, after 20 years without touching a gun I was shooting 2" groups all day at 25 yards with a 10/22, either your guns are fucking difficult to shoot or you need to play more video games............;)
 
RRR70 said:
Twenty yards.:teeth BG dead.
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Interesting, looks like some of those were keyholing on the silhouette. Was that all the 90gr (the box says FMJ, but the ones on the foaam are JHP)? Looks like it might want a different weight bullet for that rifling.
 
brichter said:
Interesting, looks like some of those were keyholing on the silhouette. Was that all the 90gr (the box says FMJ, but the ones on the foaam are JHP)? Looks like it might want a different weight bullet for that rifling.
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It does look like a keyholing, so I went and take a second look at the target.
All holes are round. It just a way paper torn.
This target was shot with 95gr FMJ.
The ones on the foam are 90gr FMJHP.

Fucking TT kicks like a mule.:) Me likes.
 
masameet said:
Any of you guys left-eye dominant, how do you shoot a rifle and a shotgun?

Do you hold the rifle or shotty against your right arm and close your left eye to aim?

Does transitioning from shooting with a handgun left-handed hamper your shooting right-handed with a rifle or shotty?
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I'm left-handed, and was right-eye dominant...so I trained my left eye to become dominant. I closed my right eye with every draw in dry practice for a month or so, and changed my eye dominance when shooting. Now I have to close my left eye when shooting right-handed. ;)
 
masameet said:
Any of you guys left-eye dominant, how do you shoot a rifle and a shotgun?

Do you hold the rifle or shotty against your right arm and close your left eye to aim?
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If you are using a shotgun for target shooting/home defense and you want to shoot right handed, you can treat it like a rifle- close your dominant left eye and sight with your right eye to aim.

On the other hand, if you're doing wingshooting or shooting clay pigeons (be it skeet, trap or sporting clays), you don't actually *aim* the gun *at* the target-- it's about moving the muzzle in an arc through the path of the bird/clay pigeon so that the shot intersects where the object will be when it gets there... You don't hold the gun still at all. It's considered quite a bad habit to close an eye-- if you're shooting right handed, you need the peripheral vision in your left eye to acquire the clays /birds coming in from your left.

One trick some cross-dominant shotgunners use is to put a strip of scotch tape or a smear of chapstick across the middle of the lens of the shooting glasses over the dominant eye. It allows you sight and peripheral vision through that eye, but forces you to remember to focus with the eye you want to be focusing with.
 
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The one closest to the camera is a bit of an attention whore, smiling for the camera. The one in the middle is at least pretending to be interested in beer, meanwhile, wifey material at the end is chugging away at her litre :laughing
 
:laughing ahah you can have her, i got dibbs on the #1 :teeth
 
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