Changing Dominant Eye

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twistedpairs

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Is it possible to change your dominant eye for shooting purposes? I have a condition where I rupture a membrane in my eye and get small temporary blind spots and color blindness. I have only had this happen in my dominant eye, and wonder if there is a possibility of "changing" your dominant eye, or just retrain the body to shoot left handed for both rifle and handgun.
 
I had a problem with my dominant eye for a while. Without the dominant eye trying to fight for control I did fine. It did feel a little weird but not the problem that I expected.
 
A few years ago I had my contacts set up for mono vision. Right eye is set for close and my left eye was set for distance. My left eye was dominate and about a year ago I noticed that my right eye has become dominate. I don't know if anyone else had this happen but I am enjoying it.
 
Absolutely possible...... even if you Don't want to change dominant eyes.
I'm right-eye dominant but I've developed a problem where the eyelashes of that eye are drooping down and contacting the pupil (it was bothersome at first, but now not so much) and I'm slowly developing left-eye dominance.

Helps with pistol shooting as I'm a lefty with pistols. Not so much with rifles as I shoot long arms right handed.
 
I'm 77 yo and right eye dominant and shoot right-handed. I see well with both eyes, but after firing a handgun my right eye slightly films up making the front sight less sharp. Blinking gets rid of the film.

Because this filming is happening more often, I learned to switch eyes. Don't know if my left eye has become more dominant. I now shot using my left eye and had hardly any problem switching. It took some practice to get used to switching eyes.

Sometimes I go back to using my right eye, when it films up - even when blinking clears right eye up - I switch to left eye. As far as bullet grouping goes, I am starting to see tighter groups with left eye.

But to answer ur question, you can switch (dominant) eyes.
 
Good question . . .

I'm left dominant and in competition, I had to put a blinder on the left eye, when shooting right handed. It figured, as it depends on what I'm doing, as to whether I go right or left. Outside of competition, I go with whichever I feel comfortable with on that day, at that time.
 
It is possible to change eye dominance by actively suppressing the visual field of the dominant eye as stated above.
But, if you have a sinus problem like a head cold, or airborne allergy your dominant eye may change depending on which side your sinus are blocked the most.
 
My dominant eye changed from right to left before this last deer season and I was t a loss as to why I felt like I couldn't shoot any longer. Once I figured out what happened and switched to the left, I was sighted in after three shots.

But I wasn't used to it and I wasn't comfortable using my left eye. A friend recommended that I use some scotch tape over the right lens on my shooting glasses. After a few days it was second-nature and my eyes adjusted easily.
 
i'm right eye dominant most of the time but when i'm tired it goes lazy on me and the left i would assume becomes dominant .
i shoot right handed so i will just use the point technique point my trigger finger toward the target gun in hand then move finger on trigger.....if my eyes won't give me a good line up
 
The simple answer is just mover your head over 2 inches.
Or
Squinting or close the cross-dominant eye before the shot is taken. By doing this, the shooter has retained his full binocular, peripheral and stereoscopic vision by keeping both his eyes open as he evaluates the shot, until the last split-second. He now has a crystal-clear picture of his target/barrel relationship with no chance of cross-dominance kicking in.
 
I am a right handed shooter and lost the vison in my right eye about 8 years ago. As a former LEO and firearms instructor for both my department and the county's Police Academy I always advocated shooting with both eyes open. Some find it hard to shoot this way at first but with practice it becomes second nature. If asked to point at a person or an object across the room we would do so by just extending our arm and not have to close one eye to be on target. The same holds true for shooting a handgun.
 
i move my head to where my dominant eye aligns with the gun sights and line up the sights keeping both eyes open dominant eye lined up back front to target....
but in a situation where you not have time to take an aim shot like that the best bet is keeping focus on the target and pointing your gun at the target where you focus and you should hit it or come really close
i was at the range the other day practicing that .....drawing and aiming without using the guns sights but just a quick draw aim and shoot and done very well without using the sights just pointing the gun whilst focusing on the target area
 
It is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to close an eye during the flight/fight response reaction you will have if your ever in desperate need to protect yourself from a threat.

Train with BOTH OPEN is a must.

Fortunately for me I am an Instructor for Center Axis Relock System and it is a Cross Dominate shooting system that is designed for self defense/CQB inside of 30ft primarily.

The positioning of the firearm is very unique and works with the f/f response in many ways that traditional shooting fails...training for self defense is not the same as for typical range/competition shooting.

One of the biggest benefits of the shooting positions is that with both eyes open and using the cross dominate eye/hand position you completely eliminate the Double/Blurred vision as experienced during traditional shooting stances/techniques taught by 99% of Instructors.

Under F/F response your heart rate is jacked up to over 220bpm, your corneas will flatten out causing depth perception issues, you will have Double/Blurred vision when BOTH eyes are forced to stay open and holding a firearm for some reason at 2-2.5X the distance of the NATURAL focal point of the human eye.

Anyway back to the topic...if your going to maintain training with isos/weaver shooting platforms you better start keeping both eyes open with NO VISUAL AIDS as those "eye patches" etc. are not likely to be around when your in desperate need to defend yourself.

You also cause MAJOR strain on the eye and it not only slowly damages the eye being OVER strained but the one being blocked can be weakened significantly over time as well.

Train to fight...so you Fight how you trained!
 
twistedpairs said:
Is it possible to change your dominant eye for shooting purposes? I have a condition where I rupture a membrane in my eye and get small temporary blind spots and color blindness. I have only had this happen in my dominant eye, and wonder if there is a possibility of "changing" your dominant eye, or just retrain the body to shoot left handed for both rifle and handgun.
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I have significantly better vision in my non-dominant eye. Instead of switching hands, I just trained with my non-dom eye. It's definitely possible.

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