anyone have to learn to shoot left eyed?

[mikeshaw2]

So 2 Tuesdays ago, I woke up looking thru a lace curtain out of my right eye. Gotten worse over the last week-ish

Not a big deal shooting pistols cause I was already left eye dominant.

My rifles may be a different issue. Looks like I need to learn to shoot left eyed. Can't say I was an expert shooter right handed/eyed, so this may be an exercise in frustration.

Good thing .22lr is cheap!

M

 

[Near miss]

Trained from left eye to right eye dominance in my twenties. Did not take very long. But trained a lot, mostly dry-fire / observing through scope.

 

[Ranchhand]

Will your right eye get better?
That's terrible. Any idea what brought it on?

 

[cas6969]

Get your blood glucose levels /A1c checked.
See an eye doctor.

I ignored a morning cloudy right eye for too long. I'll never see / shoot as well as I did ever again.

 

[xocyrusx]

So 2 Tuesdays ago, I woke up looking thru a lace curtain out of my right eye. Gotten worse over the last week-ish

Not a big deal shooting pistols cause I was already left eye dominant.

My rifles may be a different issue. Looks like I need to learn to shoot left eyed. Can't say I was an expert shooter right handed/eyed, so this may be an exercise in frustration.

Good thing .22lr is cheap!

M

I have an eye disease called keratoconus that was diagnosed too late so the deterioration got the best of me in my right eye. Left eye is manageable and far better than the right. All that said I made the switch and it was rough but it is what it is. A lot of DryFire and I feel real comfortable. Just need to close my right eye when I shoot. Hope you get better. You got the optimism so that’s 90% of the battle.

 

[Modoc]

I was a little different. When shooting pistols/ shotgun left (weak hand) I would trade eye dominance. Still don’t understand what was happening. Then I developed a trauma induced cataract in the left eye by 35 years old. A lot of dry fire practice to overcome muscle memory and I’m almost as good as I once was.

This was difficult but correctable, at the time I was competing in Single Action Shooting as a gunfighter using both pistols in both hands at the same time. I ca still do it, but have to shift pistols instead of eyes.

Get it checked out by a Doctor, if caught early things may be correctable. Insurance wouldn’t Cover my surgery until I was leagally blind in my left eye (400/20).

 

[acudaowner]

does both eyes count ? then yes

 

[mikeshaw2]

Get your blood glucose levels /A1c checked.
See an eye doctor.

I ignored a morning cloudy right eye for too long. I'll never see / shoot as well as I did ever again.

spent 8 hrs in the ER the other Mon. They seem to be going down the 'you had a stroke' route. ...despite CT scans showing nothing down that route except for a few TIAs 'sometime in the past.' That trip, they took blood. Everything's normal in that aspect.

They never did actually look in my eye

M

 

[smoothy8500]

They never did actually look in my eye

Well, ER made sure you weren't going to die. Now go to the eye doctor and figure out what it could be: Cataract, detached retina, macular degeneration, etc.

 

[mikeshaw2]

Well, ER made sure you weren't going to die. Now go to the eye doctor and figure out what it could be: Cataract, detached retina, macular degeneration, etc.

Told them the eye thing had been going on for 2 weeks when I drove myself to the ER. Not like I was going to drop dead right there and then

Went to Elite today. While I'm not nearly as accurate as I am right handed, I'm not a compete hack left handed. Gives me hope for MARS matches.

...and yes, I do need to get to the eye doctor

M

 

[RPN]

I did in my early 20's.
An accurate air rifle and several thousand pellets did the job.

 

[Mbaysinger89]

My right eye went to shit too. I blame it on welding and torch cutting with too light of a shade. Lucky for me i always closed my left eye when doing those things for some reason, and it is still 20-20.

I had to switch to left hand 3 years ago. It has been quite the change, but I'm back to shooting as good as I did right handed. What sucks is all my rifles are right handed.

The hardest part for me was relearning to point the rifle. On highish magnification I could throw the rifle up and it would be within a few mils of where I wanted it to be. That is back mostly, but in some difficult positions it still takes some searching.

Shoot with both eyes open, make yourself learn how if you dont already and that will make the transition easier.

Practice practice practice.

 

[DocRDS]

Get your blood glucose levels /A1c checked.
See an eye doctor.

I ignored a morning cloudy right eye for too long. I'll never see / shoot as well as I did ever again.

THIS X 10000

Even if you went to the ER, get to an eye specialist ASAP.

Otherwise, you can retrain--but keep your health intact!!

 

[pineoak]

THIS X 10000

Even if you went to the ER, get to an eye specialist ASAP.

Otherwise, you can retrain--but keep your health intact!!

+1

You f*cked up one eye already Dan Crenshaw... you can't afford to lose the other. We sound like d*cks... but we say it out of genuine concern for a fellow shooter.

And consider moving to a Lefty gun. AI makes lefty if you ever wanted one, now is the time.

I'm righty but shoot better with a lefty gun when shooting off left eye. Need the bag hand to stay on the bag when manipulating the bolt through strings. Just a thought if your condition is permanent.

 

[Dough300]

anyone have to learn to shoot left eyed?

So 2 Tuesdays ago, I woke up looking thru a lace curtain out of my right eye. Gotten worse over the last week-ish Not a big deal shooting pistols cause I was already left eye dominant. My rifles may be a different issue. Looks like I need to learn to shoot left eyed. Can't say I was an expert...

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[Alan Warner]

off set sights the distance of your eyes. Center to center. Made many for both scope and irons to keep folks in the game.

 

[Marine52]

Hope your situation improves. If there is a will, there is a way. Jeff Cochran, former US National F-Class champ and top shooter, has Keratoconus in his right eye, shoots with his left

Jeff Cochran, 2005 F-Class Champ

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