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I've been asked by just the cutest 33 yr.old blonde to teach her to shoot skeet. She has never shot any type of firearm before, but is really keen to learn.
Gun selection and training techniques are not an issue. What is a problem is that we discovered last night that she is right handed and left eye dominant.
What are some thoughts about this? Since she has never shot before, start her out learning to shoot left-handed? Make her shoot with the left eye closed? Cover the left lens of her shooting glasses? Take her out for dinner, or eat in?
Help!!

Left-handed.

jack

Try teaching her to shoot left handed. All the other options are still left to her and if she learns how to shoot left handed she gets to use both eyes. A real advantadge as it give her depth perception and two good eyes to she how to shoot behind all of her missed targets liek the rest of us do. .

I have the same dominence issue right handed and left eye. I was taught at a young age to shoot all types of weapons with my left eye closed. This was long before I even knew about eye dominence. I've never had a problem shooting like this, but when I tried to correct it by other meathods my shooting went in the can.

I would try getting her to shoot left handed but if she is a right handed person this may seem ackward,if so have her close her left eye.

Take her to dinner there's ample time to eat in!

Left-handed. It may take a while to warm her up to it but if she is that cute what's the hurry.

If you are a good cook , eat in. But if PB&J is your specialty make a reservation.

Bill G.

I suffer from cross-over when shooting targets from left to right, but not right to left.

Like dogon, I learned to shoot everything with one eye closed. I found that I can compensate for the loss of depth perception by starting off with low gun, both eyes open to see the target and gauge the depth. On mounting the gun, I close my right eye.

The best techinque is the one that works best for you, whatever that may be. You just have to be willing to put up with a lot of misses to find it.

Oh, yeah, take her to dinner too!

Definitely go left-handed. I'm left-handed but I shoot right-handed because of eye dominance. I learned it when I was a kid, and kids can adapt easier than 33-year olds can, but I really don't think shooting lefty will be much harder for her to learn than shooting righty - and in the long run she will shoot much better that way.

Take her out for dinner until ya'll get "close", then eat in (oh, the temptation......).

Left would be best but if that fails use a dot on her left lense.
bill

My granddaughter , who never shot before learned lefthanded because of the eye dominance problem . Paul

I heard somewhere that as many as 85% of right handed women are left eye dominant.