everyone has a dominant eye

 

I'm left eye dominant I'm right handed. I shoot my gun left handed and shoot bow right handed. I learned to shoot my bow with both eyes open. I use to use a patch on my left eye when i shot my bow but that became to much of a hustle so I learn to shoot with both eyes open:thumbs_up

 

It is possible, but not common, just as being ambidexterous is not common. Is your sight pin blurred or doubled when looking at it? If so, you need to force one eye to become dominant by either closing the left (if you shoot right handed) or you can use a small piece if opaque tape 1/4" x 1/4" and position on glasses so it only blocks your line of sight of the left eye from seeing the sight pin. You should therefore be able to sight in with your right eye (if right handed shooter) and your right eye will be able to focus on the pin while your left eye views the target.

 

My wife and myself use a double vison blocker (topbowarchery.com) It works very well. I shoot a bow with my back not my eyes, so it should really matter which side you choose. I would choose your strong side.

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I have not truly seen anybody with no dominant eye..,. I have seen people try to do the check for dominant and then move the hole to be right eyen dominant when they were left eye dominant.
Right now i AM IN BED AND HAVE THOUGHT OF A NEW TEST BUT I'LL TRY FIRST IN THE MORNING BEFORE i POST.

 

when you take a picture with a camera which eye do you use??

 

No problem girl ....

Your rt handed! Shoot rt. All you need to do is aim and close left eye . And shoot them bulls shoot easton since 1966

 

No Dominant Eye

With no dominant eye I would shoot with my handedness if you are not ambidextrous. I wonder what a peep sight on your string is going to do. I wonder if you are going to be able to shoot with both eyes open with no ill effects. If you can, no problem. If aiming problems you may have to shoot without a peep, shoot with the nonpeep eye closed, or wear a patch. I do not think you will know until you shoot a bow for awhile. Maybe you were born to be an instinctive shooter (without a sight). There are some good ones out there, and I believe instinctive shooting provides many benefits including shooting moving targets, not needing a rangefinder, shooting in low light, and not having to worry if your sights got knocked out of alignment. When you find your answer please post it here on AT.

 

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With no dominant eye I would shoot with my handedness if you are not ambidextrous. I wonder what a peep sight on your string is going to do. I wonder if you are going to be able to shoot with both eyes open with no ill effects. If you can, no problem. If aiming problems you may have to shoot without a peep, shoot with the nonpeep eye closed, or wear a patch. I do not think you will know until you shoot a bow for awhile. Maybe you were born to be an instinctive shooter (without a sight). There are some good ones out there, and I believe instinctive shooting provides many benefits including shooting moving targets, not needing a rangefinder, shooting in low light, and not having to worry if your sights got knocked out of alignment. When you find your answer please post it here on AT.

everyone has a doninate eye she is confusing ambidextrous.there are a variety of test to take to determine your dom eye. just stand parallel with an object pointyour finger at it with both your eyes open and close one eye at a time.the one your finger stays on the object is your dominate eye.....your none dom eye will be way off...

 

most people with this problem are women,Have encountered this problem with skeet and trap shooters,we'd put tape over the left eye so I would suggest an eye patch....that simple,lol.

 

If I were you I would go to a bow shop and shoot each left and right handed and go with that which feels best, I think you would be able to shoot with both eyes open if you used a anchor sight it just may take a little practice. or there one other option if I can remember or find it I post it up its basically a plastic shield next to coming off you sight housing that blocks the non aming eyes vision...anyone?

 

best thing to do is take both hands hold them out take you left hand and hold it up then take your rite and lay it ontop so it they cross opposite /\ like that but on top of each other then do the same with your thumbs facing down it should make a small circle or diamond shape while doing this find an object on the wall and with both eyes open center it in the hole close each eye when you close one it should stay in the hole when you close the other it shouldn't the one where it stays in the hole is your dominant eye and thats the hand you need to shoot with. at least thats how i set my 4-h shooters up and i haven't had any complaints yet

 

I'm mostly left-handed but shoot my bows right-handed due to being "mostly" right eye dominate. I say mostly right eye dominate because if I leave both eyes open and concentrate on the target, my sight (Sword scope w/pin and 4X lens) completely disappears (btw I wear glasses). It's almost as if I have no sight on my bow. I must partially close my left eye to get the pin to reappear. I'm thinking about using an old archer's trick of putting a piece of scotch tape over my left glasses lens to obscure the target. It doesn't happen all the time but it is anoying to have to refocus on the target.

 

If you say you have no dominate eye, I believe you. Perhasp your eyes are so close in functioning abilities that you can't perceive the difference....no matter.
I think that you should shoot which ever hand feels best to you.
Besides, most likely you'll be using a peep anyway and probably will try to close the other eye when sighting.
It really would be best to keep both eyes open when sighting...helps with depth perception, but if that's not possible, then a black card or piece of tape on glasses covering the non aiming eye will help to relieve eye strain from trying to close it.

I have been left eye dominate and right handed all my life, but now at 57, believe it or not, my right eye is starting to "swtich" over and is becoming more dominate.

 

I too have no dominant eye

I don't know what is more depressing, the lack of knowledge about what to do, or the lack of belief in this condition.

EVERY SINGLE TEST PROVES THAT I HAVE NO DOMINANT EYE. PERIOD.

All of the good shooters I know shoot with both eyes open. I cannot do this with sights because if I try I see either two sights, or two targets. Up to this point ( I'm just starting out ) I've shot instictive, but I wonder what, if any effect this has on my shooting. I've also wondered for years if this is why I have fairly poor depth perception.
I do know that I shoot just as poorly right or left hand.
I can generally do any task equally with either hand, though my left tends to be more inclined for tedious intricate task, and my rights is stronger. ( we do live in a world setup for right handed people)

 

I had the same problem when I was young. The test came back left a couple
of times and right a couple of times....I had to really concentrate sometimes
I'd get double vision blink, blink,.tap head.....close that eye enough and it
will train the other eye to pick it up.......I still can't find the dominate eye
with a test but have no trouble shooting with either eye.......I guess the
more you do it, the better it will come to you....

 

I don't have a dominant eye either. It's sometimes left, sometimes right. I close my left eye when I shot, if I don't I get double vision. I may never be a olympic shooter, but I do put a lot of critters on the ground.

 

Since posting have you had more experience shooting either hand which feels better?

 

right feels more "normal" as I have a little more practice that way. Left hand fells a bit strange as far as loading an arrow, but the practice of actually shooting is about the same.
I shot some today, now that the weather permits. I closed my left eye, to sight in with my right, then once eye opened m left eye, I tried to focus on the image I had just seen. ( I see double with both eyes )
still experimenting............

 

I also have no dominant eye. You will be able to shoot either way as far as your eyes go. It may help to start out shooting with one eye close and work your way to shooting with both eyes open. I can shoot with both eyes open but I must squint the off eye in order to get my shooting eye to focus. Don't worry about those that don't believe you and just pick a bow that feels right to you. I often wonder if I could shoot better left handed. I ended up shooting right handed solely due to the fact that right handed bows are easier to come by. Good luck.

 

eye dominance test

I've seen the simple test before but just too lazy to try to describe it or give directions. So you can check out this video that I just googled. (I'm sure you can find other videos/websites that describe the same test.) http://www.ehow.com/video_5113300_buy-bow.html The guy in the video demonstrates the simple test. Probably the best thing is to have another person across from you to see which eye you are actually looking through your hands (as shown in the video by the camera).

 

Put me on the list of one without a dominant eye. I am basically left handed, but shoot bow right handed. I write left handed, shoot left handed, some other things left and right handed. Call me messed up if you want, I've always just done what felt most comfortable. My first bow was left handed, and I shot my brother's righty and it felt much more comfortable. Been doing it that way for 25 years now. My theory is do what feels best.

I have done tests all my life, from when I was 12 shooting bb gun competition till now, and everyone always tries to come up with a new test to prove I am full of crap. I use both eyes equally, sorry. If I do any of the tests focusing on a distant object while holding up fingers, hands, etc. It moves equally for both eyes. I can also shoot with both eyes open if I choose, I am just able to focus the eye that's doing the aiming, or I can close one eye, and it is a moot point from there.

Long story short, do what feels best. :wink:

 

My current method is to initially close one eye. ( left eye closed to shoot right hand/ right eye close for left) Once I sight the target in I can then open the closed eye, while remaining fixed on my sight position. Now opening the closed eye gives me two targets to choose from, but only one has my sight pin already on it. This works for me so far.

 

I'm the same. I always have been. I'm also ambidextrous. I close my left eye because it's easier to find right handed guns and bows. If I really want to focus I can leave both eyes open but it doesn't help anything.

 

I'm throwing a question out so please do not take it as an insult. I've seen many different peolpe in this world and know that psycologists <ok, i'm not big on spelling > Group them into different type by their levels of how they relate to things. I've been accuse of being a classic A personality. So I'm wondering if people whom have been unable to determine their eye dominance are of a particular type. "if they know?"

 

Even though this thread is six months old, it's rather interesting.

If you truly have no dominant eye, then you will have no eye dominance problems.

The shooting issues are created by having a dominant eye, not a lack of one.

I just hope that you shot the way that felt best to you.