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my dilemma left eye dominate and right handed....
adkmountainken:
i am left eye dominate but right handed. taught myself to shoot flintlocks years ago right handed and never had a problem. fast forward 25 years thought i would treat myself to a couple left handed guns and bought a couple beauty's! dam if i cant get comfortable with them, they fit me better for sure but to prime and fidget with lock left handed is beyond challenging! cap lock is not bad but i love my flinters. anyone else in the same boat? i finally gave up and i;m going back to just right handed flinters and selling a couple of my leftys. should have "left" well enough alone i guess have filled plenty a deer and turkey tag with my righty flinters.
Seth Isaacson:
I'm in the same boat in terms of dominance. I shoot right handed rifles and just deal with it and use my right eye. If I'm shooting pistols, I shoot right handed but use my left eye.
GrizG:
I'm in the same boat. I adopted shooting long guns left handed while in my mid-teens. I'm rather ambidextrous with long guns and long handled tools that require aiming (e.g., axes, sledge hammers)... handguns and darts are shot right handed/left eyed with adapted stances. That said, I mostly have single shot rifles and two shot shotguns. My flintlock rifle is left handed (Siler) but my cap lock guns are right handed. I guess 50+ years of practice makes it a non-issue for me...
flembo:
I too am cross dominant, i just deal with it, I shoot with my right and close my left. When I was 8 or 9 yrs. old I couldn't close my left eye while keeping my right open. I would lie in bed for hours at night practicing, I was determined to shoot with my right eye. BTW before that I played cowboys and Indians with my pop gun shooting many an Indian and bad guys, shooting right handed using my left eye. My father saw me doing that and tried to correct me, that is when we learned about cross dominance.
D. Taylor Sapergia:
I am left handed and right eye dominant. So I shoot right handed longrifles and have the advantage of superior strength in my left arm. So I can hold a heavy right handed rifle in my left hand more steadily than some other shooters. I shoot handguns with my strong hand - left, and use my right eye, so it looks awkward but it works well.
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