13yr old son right handed, left eyed dominant, unable to close only left eye while shooting guns. how do I fix this?

13yr old son right handed, left eyed dominant, unable to close only left eye while shooting guns. How do I fix this? While shooting a rifle I have him wear an eye patch over his left eye so he can shoot right handed.

He is wanting a bow and I am not sure if he should continue wearing an eye patch or teach him to shoot left handed. Any suggestions? Asked by jjpta 10 days ago Similar questions: 13yr son handed left eyed dominant unable close eye shooting guns fix Sports & Recreation > Outdoors.

Similar questions: 13yr son handed left eyed dominant unable close eye shooting guns fix.

He may need to wear special shooting glasses or at least have a corrective contact made for his right eye.

He can learn to adapt and shoot very well that way, I sure can, I too shoot right handed but with my left eye, and I have no trouble hitting what I'm aiming at. I recommend let him do what feels natural.

He does shoot small caliber rifles (22cal) right handed with his left eye but am concerned that he will hurt his nose with bigger calibers (243, 12ga) due to the way he tilts the gun and rest his nose against the stock when shooting with his left eye. Jjpta 10 days ago .

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You're not able to look through a scope with both eyes open. Jjpta 10 days ago .

I still keep both eyes open when using a scope, in time your son will learn to use the right eye with the scope, without having to wear a patch, or close the left eye. What you might try, is giving him just the scope, no gun and practice looking through it with his right eye BUT with both eyes open. Set up pictures at different distances, have him identify the picture using the scope.

He CAN train his brain to ignore the input from his left eye, and focusing on only what his right eye sees. I think using a patch doesn't really help him train his brain, to separate left from right inputs/.

I am from the keep both eyes open school. I am the same (rt handed, left eye dominant). In using a rifle or shotgun with a scope or front and rear sights, eye dominance does not matter, and I find I have more situational awareness with both eyes open.

You get a true sight picture since your eye is directly behind the sight. With a bow, I use a left handed bow, it does not seem unusual to me, like shooting left handed does. I would suggest you go to a good dealer with a range and let him try both ways.

Either way, lose the patch, the lack of depth perception in the field could cause a serious accident.

Re: patch and depth perception. Most of our depth perception is based around on the proportional sizes, and angular changes in our field of view, not stereoscopic effects. Our eyes as too close together for that to do us much good once outside arm's reach.

Depending on degree of dominance, losing one's dominant eye (as when wearing a patch) can certainly be eventually be fatiguing, and momentarily distracting. But a minute of acclimatization, and it should be a non-issue from there on.

I'm the same way; when shooting a handgun, I tip my head slightly to the right ... and rotate the gun slightly to the left (like from 12:00 to 11:30 position) to line up left eye with the sights. I haven't had a problem shooting a rifle or a bow with my right eye, though. It might be the longer site picture makes it a bit easier.