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This discussion is definitely an eye-opener (pun intended).
I have been shooting pistols now for about twenty months with an average of one range trip per month. Prior to that I hadn?t shot a rifle since I left Viet Nam in 1969. In other words, I?m very much in the learning phase.
What I did do during the intervening years was astronomical telescope viewing. Conventional wisdom is to use one?s dominant eye on the eyepiece with the other open. and glasses on. This works well if there is no other light nearby but is next to useless for city-bound observation. I was always most comfortable using my other (left) eye and closing my right eye while using the scope?s own focusing capability to sharpen the image instead of my glasses (astigmatism notwithstanding). With my small telescope I somehow managed to spot and identify all the major planets out to Neptune and in to Mercury, major moons of Jupiter and Saturn as well as details of Saturn?s rings, close binary stars including some with faint companions, and all 109 (110?) Messier Catalogue clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
The point is that now my tendency is to close my right eye and aim with my left while shooting right handed. Of course I need to modify this when shooting a stocked Artillery Luger or C96 using my right eye. I find that, with the benefit fine accurate mostly German guns, my target shooting is improving a lot. My concern is that in a truly defensive situation I would want to keep both eyes open and be sure of my aim. The obvious answer is to practice more with both eyes open and use my dominant eye to aim.
Practice, practice, practice.
Russell
I have been shooting pistols now for about twenty months with an average of one range trip per month. Prior to that I hadn?t shot a rifle since I left Viet Nam in 1969. In other words, I?m very much in the learning phase.
What I did do during the intervening years was astronomical telescope viewing. Conventional wisdom is to use one?s dominant eye on the eyepiece with the other open. and glasses on. This works well if there is no other light nearby but is next to useless for city-bound observation. I was always most comfortable using my other (left) eye and closing my right eye while using the scope?s own focusing capability to sharpen the image instead of my glasses (astigmatism notwithstanding). With my small telescope I somehow managed to spot and identify all the major planets out to Neptune and in to Mercury, major moons of Jupiter and Saturn as well as details of Saturn?s rings, close binary stars including some with faint companions, and all 109 (110?) Messier Catalogue clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
The point is that now my tendency is to close my right eye and aim with my left while shooting right handed. Of course I need to modify this when shooting a stocked Artillery Luger or C96 using my right eye. I find that, with the benefit fine accurate mostly German guns, my target shooting is improving a lot. My concern is that in a truly defensive situation I would want to keep both eyes open and be sure of my aim. The obvious answer is to practice more with both eyes open and use my dominant eye to aim.
Practice, practice, practice.
Russell