Should I Shoot a Scoped Rifle With Both Eyes Open?

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January 4, 2008 at 6:28 pm

(1) Paul B. aka Cirduck says:

Your comments are right on Russ. If they’re comfortable closing one eye and it doesn’t “tense up the sight picture” (i.e. facial muscles) and shoot reasonably well – so be it for most casual ‘marksmen’ / hunters. I do keep
both eyes open but have long ago trained my brain to “ignore” or not really concentrate / look with the other.

For one of my sons this doesn’t work – so he does close one eye.

If one’s eyes are reasonably close keeping the other non-shooting eye is less a “problem”; if one is blessed with the combination of true left eye dominant and right handedness this is less likely to work – for example; it can be difficult to “tune-out” the signal of the very dominant left eye in this scenario – even though the scope itself itself will (for lack of a better term) overcompensate for this mis-match.

January 4, 2008 at 11:02 pm

(2) Russ says:

Thanks Paul. Always good to hear about real-world experience from fellow hunters! Especially one with your experience and common sense (as I know from our communicaitons in the forum).