Help. Wife is left eye dominant.....

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but stronger with her right hand. We confirmed it this morning using the "finger point test".
We shot a Model 36, 60 3" and a PPK/S. Actually all were not that bad. I wouldn't want to be coming down the hallway.
But still looking for any training ideas from those here that have worked thru this situation.
Thanks.
 
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I wouldn't worry about it. I shoot with both hands. I am right handed and right eyed. I have been having trouble with my right thumb where it connects to my hand. so I have been working with my left hand for about a year. I use my right eye with both. Its not a problem unless I make it a problem. It works good. I actually shoot better with my left hand but I am a little slower with it. Don't make it a problem and it won't be.
Phil
 
I'm left eye dominant and I still shoot with my right hand. I just shift the firearm slightly to the left in order to be able to obtain a quick sight picture with my left eye. The right eye then joins in and allows me to obtain depth of field.
 
teach her to shoot with both eyes open, I am left eye dominant and had to learn this.
 
What pberry said. I became left-eye dominant a couple of decades ago, and it made very little difference with handguns. Shooting one-handed, I stand a little squarer to the target. That's about it.

Rifles, of course, are another story.
 
Absolutely no problem with revolvers and pistols. Been doing it all my life.

I used to shoot revolvers both left and right handed, with right eye dominate. I kept both eyes open, as I did with rifles and shotguns. Now my right eye is so bad that I use my left eye for revolver shooting, either hand -- absolutely no problem after a bit of practice. I do close my bad right eye now. I shoot almost as small groups with left hand as right, just slower, especially DA.

Niklas
 
I had an instructer tell me one time that I was left eye dominate. I always used my right eye. I think a lot of it is BS. I always used my right eye and to tell you the truth I have lost my left eye and everything is still the same.
 
I had an officer that was right handed, but left eye dominate. What my senior instructor had me due was buy an eye patch for her left eye. It made her concentrate on the sights and help her to do a better job shooting. Didn't make her an expert by any means, but it did help.
 
I used to be. A head injury (a rare one not inflicted by my bride!) caused it. Each persons response will be different. Mine (as I quipped about above) was noting that my "groups" had moved from the center of the target, to a 2 o'clock position in the 9 ring. Even though using both eyes open. The group sizes were the same, just "shifted". I've found that R/eye dominance can be reclaimed (for me) while sighting, slowly close the left eye, then slowly open it. It will usually last about 10 seconds.

(EDIT) I could never quite figure out why the "high right" aspect of it? Till one time I looked in a mirror while sighting. My posture was such while sighting, that my L/eye was higher than my R/eye was. And because a L/eye dominant R/hand shooter is actually looking diagonally "across" the sights. Hope it helps?
 
Have you tried using laser grips? For J frame S&W revolvers, I prefer the LaserMax grips over the Crimson Trace grips. My wife is not interested in firearms...until the threat is at hand and I'm not around....then she gets really interested. The LaserMax grips seem to give her a feeling of confidence. I'm horribly near-sighted and legally blind without my glasses. 7-10 yards is about the extent of my unaided vision, and the laser helps in low-light situations.

Best of luck,

Dave
 
I'm left eyed dominate and usually shoot a handgun right handed. For rifle shooting I think you actually have an advantage being configured that way. Other than the afore mention POI shift I have never noticed any disadvantage to shooting this way.

If she is truly a new shooter you should consider teaching her to shoot left handed. I'm basically ambidextrous but carry and practice my CCW handgun left handed because I feel it gives a slight advantage.
 
I'm left handed and right eye dominant. It's no problem.
I can shoot about as well right handed as left handed with most handguns. The more recoil they have the more I need to shoot left handed due to a 'lil carpal tunnel on the right side.
 
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I'm left eye dominate and right handed. I used to shoot a pistol left handed for this reason. As my experience grew I learned it made no difference. I do shift the pistol a minuscule amount to the left instinctively. Shooting a Rifle is a different story. I can't even acquire a site picture with my right eye unless I close my left eye momentarily. Solution for me was to shoot rifle matches and rifles period left handed. And yes it is a pain in the butt with a bolt action but I learned to live with it.
 
Originally posted by Beachcomber:
I'm left eye dominant and I still shoot with my right hand. I just shift the firearm slightly to the left in order to be able to obtain a quick sight picture with my left eye. The right eye then joins in and allows me to obtain depth of field.
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Thats the way to do it! Both eyes open-obtaining the sight picture-and you're fine.
 
I am left handed and right eye dominate. I shoot all weapons right handed. I was in the US Air Force for 24 years and retired in Oct 07. I could not qualify with any weapons with my left hand. They made me switch to the right and I always qualified from there on. So I have just keep that up and it works great, left hand shooting feel wrong now.
 
I'm left eye dominant and right handed. Its has never been a problem for me. With handguns, I simply tilt my head a bit to align my left eye with the sights.

I do have to close one eye with long guns, but again, its not an issue, even shooting moving targets. I had a lot of experts tell me I'd never be a good skeet shooter until I started shooting with both eyes open. They all shut up when I started consistently out shooting them. Even taking snap shots at fast moving low targets like a grouse for example is not a problem. I simply close my left eye as the gun hits my shoulder take the shot and open it back up. It only take a fraction of a second.

It might not be text book, but it works for me and at this point its too late to change. 250+ rounds of 12ga per week has a way of ingraining stuff into your muscle memory.
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I'm strongly left-eye dominant and moderately strongly right-handed.

My best shooting happens with the sights at eye level and my right eye closed.

I shoot long-guns in the left-handed fashion. I simply can't get my head far enough over to put my left eye on the sights if I have the rifle/shotgun on my right shoulder.

It doesn't matter which hand I'm holding the pistol in.
 
Lots of good advice here. Best solution is to have her start shooting with both eyes open. If that doesn't work, and she can't shoot left hand dominant, placing a sticker on the left lense of her shooting glasses to obstruct her left eye will work. I am extremely right eyed and right hand dominant and shoot with both eyes open. When we qualify and are required to shift the pistol to the weak hand during the course of fire, I cant the pistol over to my right eye. When I went through instructor's school, we had to do precison firing from cover both strong and weak hand. There was no peeking out to cant the pistol so I had to aim with my left eye. I had to hold to the right edge of the target to hit center mass.
 
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