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pheasent89

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I have been hunting and shooting for 47 years now ,a good amount of trap shooting. My grandfather never taught me the correct way to shoot LOL just "shoot".. I know both eyes open is the way to go but at 60 it seems tough for me . Sooo I just tried Skeet a few weeks ago and I am addicted. I can see where this game would benefit 2 eyes open. If there are any 1 eyed shooters out there how do you go about it ?? like for example do you start out with 2 eyes and gradually close your weak eye..?.Trap is really no problem one eye

Thanks Kenny
 
I do exactly what you’re describing. I start with both eyes and then just “wink” but not completely close left eye to get on the bird. I am severely cross eye dominant and it’s the only thing that works for me.
 
I struggled with winking. Went to a Dot in the upper outer aspect of my off eye- left. Went from D to AA in a year. Went to Master in 11 months. Or you can fight it for 5 years in D class.

you decide
 
I use the Off Eye patch on my left lens. On Station 2 I have to wait for the bird to cross over the bridge of my nose. My movement is then "see the bird, be ahead of it, pull the trigger." Happens fairly fast and not much time for correction, but it works for me. No other stations seem to be an issue for this one-eyed shooter.
 
I had an eye injury that distorts my left eye vision...then I took a Bender class. First I tape my left lens leaving the extreme left side open and keep both eyes open. Secondly, move your feet at stations #2 & #3, pointing your stomach toward the center stake. It's trial and error...but you will pick up the left high house sooner.
 
I wear a dot on my right lens as I am right eye dominate and shoot left-handed. The placement of the dot is critical, too far left or right and it will not work.
You want the dot to block out the end of the barrel/sight so that you can't see it with that eye.

I was AAA-AA in all 4 guns in skeet when I stopped competing.
 
I struggled with winking. Went to a Dot in the upper outer aspect of my off eye- left. Went from D to AA in a year. Went to Master in 11 months. Or you can fight it for 5 years in D class.

you decide
I had a similar experience. But went from D to A in a year winking. Started having some issues with fast going away targets. Switched to a dot high and left on my lens(right handed shooter) that is not even noticeable. And everything has really started coming together. AA now and several punches toward Master. And a couple HOA’s this year. I’m a sporting shooter but shoot skeet for practice. The only time it comes into play is when I’m completely in the gun. And I never see the dot, or the barrel unless I want to.
 
A dear friend who passed away 3 years ago had only one good eye: his left one. But he shot right handed and only shot Remington 1100s. Back about 50 years ago he won the Missouri State Skeet championship-twice.
 
I had, what I considered at the time, to have success with one eye closed. I was upper A class to AA in everything. I had numerous 100s in everything except .410 and the doubles event. I was having difficulty winning anything because I had difficulty with doubles at 3, 4 and 5. I Shot one eyed until 1996 then decided to change to both eyes open. After shooting for IIRC: about a year, good things started happening. I started getting a few 100s in the doubles event. I started to win more shoot offs. Averages started to climb, drastically. The strange thing is, the number of 100s started to go down in the 28 and 20, not much, but they still went down. I still cannot explain the number of 100s going down.

I would have to say, the change from 1 eye to 2 eyes made the most difference when shooting doubles from 3,4 and 5 as I could pick up the second bird much faster, especially from station 4.

Some of you may remember, the 410 long run record of over 600 was held for several years, by a one eyed shooter.
 
I am a one eyed shooter (Skeet) and have just switched from swing through to sustained lead a couple months ago. I am starting to get the hang of the sustained lead and am so glad I made the switch. I can see where shooting with 2 eyes open would be a great advantage when shooting Skeet, especially when shooting high house targets on stations 2 thru 6, I am right handed. I am going to try and make the switch to 2 eyes open but don't know if I should wait till I really get the sustained lead down or just bite the bullet and change everything at once. Advice is appreciated.
 
I am left eye dominant and right handed. I started with tape and it made me claustrophobic. Then I just kept both open and shut one once I caught the bird. Now I just use only the right eye. I use the both open and shut method sometimes in sporting clays where the target is so fast you'll lose it coming over your shoulder or behind my left shoulder.
 
i like all this feedback on one-eyed skeet shooting--HOWEVER--no one has mentioned what to do about the eye hold and the gun hold points when shooting one -eyed??
They have to change--dont they?
please advise and THANKS IN ADVANCE
 
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