Shooting weak-handed to reduce issues with eye dominance or injury to the strong side

[gearchecker]

Shooting opposite from your eye dominance was just brought up in another thread and I'd like to bring it up as it's own situation.
There are shooters concerned about shooting right handed, but they're left eye dominant.

As long as a person can shoot where they're aiming, eye dominance should be the least of their concerns.
If you're Shooting across your eye dominance, try shooting off handed. I've tought myself (Very painfully I might add) to shoot equally as well with either hand. Eye dominance works both ways. I started switching hands because of a thread that discussed what would you do if your strong hand was injured and you still had to protect yourself.
I got to thinking I had never tried to shoot weak handed. So, with a fair amount of practice, and a whole bunch of ammo going down range I've been able to improve my shooting to the point I know I can shoot from my weak side with very good accuracy. My wife & I now train shooting from either hand. We shoot 2 handed and one handed unsupported, to be sure we can do it under most circumstances.
It nearly doubles our ammo consumption, but we're secure knowing we can, if we need to.

Those of us that are left handed have needed to adjust to a right handed world, so it seems we've learned to adjust somewhat to those little issues in life. It's been proven that if a teacher tries to force a left handed person to write and use their right hand instead of their dominant left hand, that student will have learning disabilities for the rest of their life. It can be done, but with great stress to the system. People that have had strokes can learn to use the opposite side of the brain. But it's painstakingly difficult, and can never replicate the coordination of using the natural strong side.

We've had to learn to shoot bolt action rifles with the bolt on the wrong side. Or fire a semi-auto handgun or rifle with the casings being spit out across our line of sight. Some left handed shooters never can adjust to these types of shooting issues. So, they either give up or pay a premium for a "Left handed" gun. Ruger makes the Model 77 in a left handed bolt design. Many companies that produce upper receivers for AR rifles now make left handed receivers that eject the casings from the left side. But that's a major design change, and often proves to be problematic in the way the rifle functions. There are even left handed revolvers.

As for me, I've learned to ignore these issues for the most part, and keep shooting left handed with a right handed guns.
I've learned to operate the bolt with my right hand after a shot. I put ambi-safeties and ambi mag releases on my pistols where I can.
The point is this. We all can learn to adjust to the hand we've been dealt and should be concerned much more about accuracy and repeatability over anything else when it comes to shooting.
Eye dominace should be the least of your concern out on the gun range.

Regards,
Gregory

[19and41]

That is a good plan. I always try to train with my off hand regularly since wrecking my right trigger finger for a couple of months.

[USMC Snakedriver]

I'm right handed, right eye dominant. I will shoot left hand, left eye for about 30 rounds when I go shooting. My group on target is as good with left hand/left eye. Could it be because of concentration, or no expectation of having to produce a tight group? Anyway, it's no big deal shooting from weak hand, weak eye. Just a few more rounds down range. I hit what I'm shooting at. Try it, you might be surprised what you can do.