Re: How bad is this?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lindy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As you wish. If you read my first post in this thread, though, you'll notice that I used to shoot cross-dominance. Bye.
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Yes, but what your brain does is not necessarily what others' do. My brother was shooting to the side all the time. He's a physically blessed guy, I mean sickly so. He can do almost everything nearly or exactly as well with each side from bowling 200+ with either hand to having scouts watching him bat both ways (which requres eye-switching). He was looking out the wrong eye with both open. Once he knew this, he fixed it. For him, switching eyes is fast. Just like some of us can switch brain hemispheres while others can only use both or dominantly either without any choice in the matter, some people can switch eyes. You sound like like you also fall into the ambioptical camp.
You either fixed it automatically, or don't remember when you fixed it consciously. It is a very real issue though, for some people, with both eyes open.
I'm left eye dominant, and with reflex sights I shoot left-eyed, right handed. It takes way too much effort for me to target with my right eye correctly. Sometimes I'll use a scope with my left eye too, if the head geometry works. Obviously too twisted makes for bad vision, but on a high scope it works better than my right eye. Should I learn to shoot lefty with a rifle? If I were a competitor, hell yeah. Parts availabilty and pricing makes that unattractive to me as a hobbyist, and brass ejecting into my face with leaded gas just doesn't float my boat either.