Thread: Both eyes open..... ?????

Originally Posted by Tussock

If you are having trouble relaxing its most like the wrong eye,

You are not left or right handed for shooting really, you should shoot with your dominant eye and work the rest out from there.

Both eyes open is good, but need to use dominant eye through scope.

Hold a finger up and align it with an object. Let your vision go double, and then close one eye, then the other.

When one eye is open, and the finger stays stationary relative to the object you aligned it with, that is your dominant eye.

The other eye will move relative to the object (parallax error).

Shoot with whatever side has you dominant eye looking through the scope.

On low powers, up to 4X, the eye will not care that you are looking at two different depths with both open. Once you are at higher powers, the lenses in the eye are trying to adjust to two depths and the extreme difference can fatigue you, so closing or covering one eye is Ok.

Two eyes allow your brain to do its mathematically impossible calculations for range, rate of movement etc. Have HUGE faith in your brains capacity to make all those minute corrections faster than you can consciously think of them. We survived for 150,000 years by throwing things accurately. You have all the stuff in your head already, the hard part is not over thinking it, and training your brain to apply all those genetic tools (like little computer programs for the brain) to shooting, where the projectile goes a lot faster!

Thanks tussock... Great reply..

Im certainly left eye dominant, though I'd never done that test before that you mentioned. You had me a little nervous for a tick as I'd already invested in a lefty bolt action... I think it is just practice as I said it does feel more comfortable with both eyes open therfore more relaxing..
Interesting no one had had ever pointed it out to me before. I will keep an eye (pun intended) on my mates to see if they could benefit from some guidance in that department.. I only picked this up from watching @Norway 's THLR.no youtube channel.. If you haven't watched some of his tutorials I highly recommend you do..
cheers
Tim