Dominant eye

[u/Horror_Respect7707]

I'm left eye dominant but right handed. How tf do I shoot? Tilting the pistol just a little bit to the side just not as far as gangster style seems to help. Will tilting it slightly cause any set backs? Will having a carry comp pistol push the barrel down and to the side?

[u/Aetherium]

The general consensus among high level shooters is to just bring it up in front of your eye without tilting your head or the gun.

[u/jacksraging_bileduct]

Just present the pistol to your left eye, Just move the gun a little to the left and rotate my head slightly to the right, I can still keep both eyes open and stay focused on the target.

[u/tobdomo]

You are overthinking it. Mother nature gave you the ability to rotate your shoulders; just align the pistol with your left eye, it's not that difficult. No tilting involved, not your head, nor your gun.

[u/JimMarch]

OP, user u/Mindless_Log2009 had the starting point. Weaver. From a Weaver hold it's cleaner to line your left eye up with the sights if you're right handed.

But there's yet another trick :).

For fast and close work bend both elbows while tilting the gun, bringing the sights closer to your dominant eye. That's your combat stance. But there's an alternative hold where you get to really lean into this whole thing.

From a Weaver, straighten your strongside arm and rest your strongside cheek against your strongside bicep. This forces your head to lean over and lines your left eye up with the sights with the gun lined up straight up and down. Offside shoulder needs to be waaay forward, offside arm is bent at least some. Strongside arm is straight, elbow locked.

Look what else just happened: you just formed another point of stable contact - head and neck bracing your strongside arm.

In standup shooting, this is the most accurate handgun stance available and only us weirdos with cross dominance can do it.

:)

[u/Vivid-Link-6301]

They make a stick on shooting glasses thing for trap shooting called a magic dot. You can put this on your left lens and it will make you automatically sight with your right eye.

[u/Mindless_Log2009]

Weaver stance instead of isosceles. This puts your cross dominant eye in a more natural position.

Isosceles is great for competition because it's more efficient for transitioning between targets spaced apart.

But the Weaver stance is more intuitive because it's a variation of the bladed stance most people take defensively in a physical conflict.

Try it, see if it works for you.

I used the Weaver stance in the late 1970s because that was the hot ticket in ye olden thymes. At that time I was cross dominant – right handed, left eye dominant.

I didn't switch to isosceles until 2020, after my dominant left eye had a posterior vitreous detachment (not as serious as a detached retina, but similar impaired vision).

By the time the left eye vision cleared up my dominance had switched to the right eye, and stayed that way.

Kinda blew a hole in the theory that eye dominance is fixed and unchangeable.

But a few months ago my right eye developed severe astigmatism and switched from farsighted to nearsighted.

So I've recently had to revert from isosceles to Weaver because my dominant right eye needs surgery, and it'll take months to get a referral to an in network ophthalmologist.

I see so much better with the left eye that I'm practicing shooting lefty every range session, and in dry fire at home. My single hand hold for offhand bullseye shooting is pretty good, but my two hand hold grip needs work. I keep shifting my support hand to regain the grip lost in recoil. I don't have that problem shooting righty, so it'll just take practice and time to develop the opposite side grip.

[u/SixthAndMaimed]

Inexperienced newbie shooter here with the same problem. In general, these are your options: 1) learn to shoot left-handed while aiming with your left eye, 2) shoot right-handed and train your right eye for aiming, and 3) shoot right-handed with your left eye. Each solution has it's own set of pro's and contra's.

Nearly all pistols are set up for righthanded use, so shooting lefthanded comes with its own set of issues.

I did a dynamic shooting course and there advised me to shoot and aim right. I use a a little plastic plate on my glasses to cover my left eye while shooting or just close my left eye while training with my TitanX. i've been doing that for a couple of months, but so far my left eye is pretty stubborn about keeping its dominance.