Re: Shooting with both eyes open?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TacticalCity</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The military told me to keep them both open. years later I took a defense handgun course at front sight and they told me to close my support side eye. I thought they were crazy. But the proof was in the target. I was ten times as fast and ten times more accurate when I closed my support side eye.
When I tell people this they give me grief. A common, and very stupid response, is "but you loose your field of vision...what about other hostiles? You won't see them with one eye closed!"
The answer is obvious. You only close your support side eye when pointing in and firing. It takes a fraction of a second to do, and another to fire a controlled pair, by which time he is falling and you are doing your after action drills wih both eyes open again to snap out of your tunnel vision and to scan for more hostiles. So it is not like you're walking around all day with one eye closed. You do it only when you commit to fire, and only long enough to finsih firing your controlled pair, or at most a third shot...the head shot (in the real world it might be more like half a magazine but you get my point).
For rifles, with peep sights I find it helps as well. Once you add a red dot or a scope the dominant eye no longer needs help taking over...in my experience...so it is not as much of an issue. You eye might react differently though.
There is of course, a totally different school of thought on this. I am only telling you what works for me. </div></div>
Those folks at Front Sight are a total fucking idiots. I've been shooting USPSA / IPSC for over 20 years and believe me if you want to shoot a handgun worth anything you better keep both eyes open. I'm right handed and left eye dominant and don't do anything goofy like squinting, moving to the dominant side etc. Just practice and work on the visual aspects of shooting.
