Eye Dominance Symposium in Shooting Sports USA
The digital archives of Shooting Sports USA contain many interesting articles. A couple seasons back, Shooting Sports USA featured a “must-read” expert Symposium on Eye Dominance, as it affects both rifle and pistol shooting. No matter whether you have normal dominance (i.e. your dominant eye is on the same side as your dominant hand), or if you have cross-dominance, you’ll benefit by reading this excellent article. The physiology and science of eye dominance is explained by Dr. Norman Wong, a noted optometrist. In addition, expert advice is provided by champion shooters such as David Tubb, Lones Wigger, Dennis DeMille, Julie Golob, Jessie Harrison, and Phil Hemphill.
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Tags: Dominant Eye, Eye Dominance, Eyes, Optical, Shooting Sports USA, Sight
Did not like the format of the article. Clicking in and out to read it sucks.
Terry,
If you allow the “ezine” to load full-screen on a normal monitor, you should be able to flip pages at normal size like a “print magazine”. On a smart phone, you may have to use the magnifying glass tool to zoom in and out. But the article is very readable on my 19″ monitor.
I hate reading magazines in all the ezine formats. I just download the PDFs and read them on my iPad.
I installed the app. and read the entire article, which was mostly pertaining to iron sights. The entire discussion about depth of field does not seem to apply to scope shooting since a properly adjusted scope puts the target and reticule in the same plane. The one bit that those who are training new shooters, or starting out themselves came from David Tubb, who observed that he did not know of a single national champion that shot with his non dominant eye. This comes into play with people who are cross dominant, right handed and left eyed, or the opposite. Further complicating this situation is the fact that there are significant differences in how coordinated people may be with their off hands. Luckily, I am able to do quite a lot with mine, so it was not difficult to learn how to shoot a long gun left handed so that I could use my dominant eye.