Newer member here. Looking for some simple help/practice tips with my left eye dominance. Mainly shoot upland and recreational skeet.
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And even if you shoot a hundred straight, so what? Who is going to remember in 20 years?Scores: 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 24. Scores improved when I stayed aggressive the whole time. 1 more to go!
Good questions. My scores are important to me for about 2 sessions so I can see how I'm doing from one visit to the next. During this last visit I was able to get them to improve by one target a round over the course of a single visit - 6 rounds altogether. That was important and fun because and it lends validity to what I'm doing. So does the smoke I was getting out of the targets. I feel I am going in the right direction. I don't mind sharing scores and technique here in case someone else might benefit. If not, ok.And even if you shoot a hundred straight, so what? Who is going to remember in 20 years?
The important question is not what your scores are, it is, "Are you having fun?"
"Do you feel like you are going in the right direction?"
"ARE YOU HAVING FUN?"
Except you don't track a clay target by moving your eyes. You do it by moving your whole upper body with your eyes fixed. Eye muscles have nothing to do with it. And the idea of one eye moving to keep up with a target when the other can't is just absurd.This completely ignores the most important aspect -- shooting a clay you are having to track a tiny object that is at times moving very fast. At times, and especially as your eyes get older, or if you are fatigued, the muscles that move your eyes to do that tracking quit working quite as well. Either eye may momentarily quit tracking all together every now and then. When that happens to the two-eyed shooter he does not even notice, because the other eye's muscles are working fine and he just tracks with that eye.
The one-eyed shooter is suddenly shooting blind when that happens.
So one-eyed shooting may work okay with young eyes, but it is highly likely to be disappointing once you start to age. Kim Rhode just shot the selection match in Tucson. She isn't that old but is now consistently running 10 - 14 birds behind the top two-eyed gals. Corey Cogdell didn't even show up.
Giovanetti did not shoot with glasses, much less with tape on them. Yes, Balogh won gold in 2004 and then shot a 15/25 in the finals in London in 2012. The 66 she shot in qualifying in 2004 would not even get her into the finals in today's competitions.…and yet we have seen Italian Luciano Giovanetti win back to back Olympic Trap Gold medals in 1980 and 1984…
Suzy Balogh winning Gold in Trap in 2004 in Athens…
Dave Carrie winning World FITASC Gold in Portugal 2014…
There are some pretty strong assertions in this post falsely citing visual phenomena (or the absence of which) the authors know nothing about.
It’s too late in the evening for me to fact check everything…Google is your friend
I think therre is almost never "total binocularity." That is why you want to have every eye you possess reading every target.in these cases I’m citing examples where there isn’t total binocularity.
There simply were not that many women shooting competitively then. The women almost never shot the percentages the men did, even with shorter courses of fire.If it’s a Gold, it’s a Gold, it’s not an “ah but” Gold just because it doesn’t fit your narrative.
If you or any other experienced shooter wants to block or shut an eye, I couldn't care less. I do not post here for you, I do it for the people just starting out, and for the few old-timers like superskeet, who posted this back on page 1;This is so stupid. “The one-eyed women are eating dust.” So do you shoot better than them? If not, and we know that is the case, then just give it a rest. Most of us are not trying to be the best in the world, just trying to have some fun. If we can do that more readily with one eye, what’s the harm? Why force a problematic and difficult technique on folks for whom it is never going to make any difference anyway just because that is how the best of the best do it. Anything that is good enough for the almost best of the best (one-eyed women) is sure as hell good enough for me. Especially when it is what I naturally want to do anyway. Sheesh, you just don’t get it. Being happy and comfortable with how you shoot is the most important thing of all. Not emulating the Olympic champions. Just doing what you like.
Making the conversion from one-eyed to two has also "improved my game immensely and made shooting so much easier." It has also made shooting a LOT more fun. However, it was much more difficlut for me (and others I know) than it was for superskeet, and for that reason I readily admit that most people who have been shooting one-eyed for years will NOT be able to successfully make the conversion, or will find it too much of a hassle. And that's okay.I'm a very left eye dominant RH shooter. Been shooting either one eyed closed or with tape on my left lens since 1967. 2 years ago I decided I wanted to up my game and the best way I could come up with was to learn to shoot with 2 eyes. Long story short I wound up teaching myself how to shoot 2 eyed without knowing anything about Ralph's ideas on the topic, and when I did learn of Ralph's blog just a few months ago it was 95% in line with what I had discovered myself in learning how to shoot 2 eyed. It has improved my game immensely and made shooting seem so much easier.
My wife was new to shotgun shooting. I'm not sure if I didn't check her correctly at first or if her eye dominance .changed. She shot a spring trap league a few years back. Part way through the league we determined that she was left-eye dominant, shooting right-handed. In between the Spring and Summer league, she switched to left-handed shooting. It was not all smooth sailing and sometimes her eyes fight each other. Based on watching her, and shooting with her, I would strongly suggest that if you are a relatively new shooter, shoot from the side of your dominant eye.This is the way to go and the sooner the better. Why fight it? Like I said, I started my right handed kids shooting on the left side when I saw they were both cross eye dominant. They feel the same way I do about shooting on the right side with my dominant right eye--natural. No tape while clay shooting, squint while hunting. You just shoot.
Obviously, the longer one has been shooting from the non-dominant side, the transition will take longer.