« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2009, 03:23:44 AM »
Guns,
In my experience this is a NON-ISSUE for close quarters defensive shooting. She needs to "extend-touch-press" with both eyes open. If someone has her closing one eye to focus on the front sight to hit a man sized target in the chest at 10', that is where the problem lies, not in her eyes. I have had several students show up to classes shooting way below their ability because they had it in their head that they had to do something special because of eye dominance.
As noted by M25 and DesertMarine, shooters with this issue (myself included) will find that their brain compensates automatically (by turning/canting the head) to get the stronger eye behind the front sight when the gun is at extension.
Long guns can be a problem for someone with an extremely dominant off-side eye, but it is not an issue with handguns.
In regard to fundamental shooting skill development, See the article here from last weeks Best Defense: http://www.downrange.tv/bestdefense/article1-ep1.htm
-RJP
The OP didn't say the target was
that big or
that close. A quick point and shoot method that works at 10 feet on a man-szed target won't work on a 25 yard bullseye target.
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