Shooting a pistol with both eyes open might not be the first thing to come to mind when you’re training with a pistol, but being able to shoot with both eyes open actually puts you at quite an advantage. It’s not going to turn you into a sharpshooter but it will allow you to maintain your.

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So while watching some of the hunting shows this spring, I noticed that a lot of the hunters were shooting with both of their eyes open. I never thought of doing this, so I figured what the heck why not give it a try, if nothing else I should have a larger field of view. I don’t know about you, but I was taught to shoot with both eyes open. Perhaps it’s different in the U.K., But it’s worth reinforcing that shooting a shotgun with both eyes open will lead to more success. Sources: Fieldsports Channel, David Smith.

When you’re pointing your duty weapon at a suspect and shout, “Police! Drop the weapon!” do you have:A.) One eye openB.) Both eyes openC.) Both eyes closedD.) Sometimes one eye open, sometimes both eyes openMost firearms instructors will tell you the correct answer should be, “B.

Shooting With Both Eyes Open Scope

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Guest Blog post by Robert A. Buonfiglio, O.D.

Of Eye on Performance Sports Vision TrainingI’ve been a practicing optometrist for thirty-four years, and for the last seven, I’ve also had a sports vision training practice, in which we train athletes to improve the visual skills they need in competition. Though I only began shooting about two and a half years ago, and the first thing I learned is that, even if you know quite a bit about how the visual system works, it’s still not an easy task to shoot with accuracy and consistency. I will share with you some of what I’ve learned, along with some of what I know about vision, with the goal of helping you understand how your eyes work, and even more, to help you shoot more accurately.Since I posted interest in writing this, the immediate questions involved the use of one or both eyes. Fortunately, I have a lot to say about that; and fortunately, I’m getting better at being succinct.We often talk of using our “dominant” eye when shooting, but just what does that mean? Well, we all seem to have one eye we prefer to use, and that’s probably the one that’s dominant. Most people who are right handed are also right eye dominant, but not always; and there can be some difficulty when the eye you want to use for sighting is not on the same side as the hand that has your trigger finger.With both eyes open, we see objects as single when we look directly at them (barring any binocular dysfunction), and things that are closer or farther away are seen as double.

I set up a scenario in my workshop/shooting range to illustrate. (Forgive the blurriness – it isn’t very brightly lit in my basement. It was better not to use flash): Left Eye SeesRight eye seesConcentrating on the pen, we see two targets. Concentrating on the penConcentrating on the targets, we see two pens. Concentrating on the targetsThe concept I’ve illustrated here is called physiological diplopia (double vision), and it occurs because our eyes are separated horizontally by a distance typically between 60 and 70 millimeters, so each eye has its own view of the world. The brain merges the images by a process called fusion.You can observe this by holding your left thumb out at arms’ length, and your right index finger about halfway between your face and your thumb. Look at the thumb, you see two fingers, and vice versa.Now, if we simply close one eye, then we eliminate the double vision.

But, in a tactical shooting situation, where a threat could be coming from the side of your non-dominant eye, this could be a fatal mistake. And if shooting a moving object (bird, skeet, etc.), you would be losing the peripheral vision of that side, which could make finding the object more difficult. For target shooting, an occluder is often used to block the central vision of the non-dominant eye, making it easier to concentrate on what your dominant (shooting) eye is seeing.If you are using a scope or a dot sight, you can keep both eyes open, and learn to “suppress” the non-dominant eye. I’ve noticed when using a dot sight that I can concentrate on the target, fuse it with both eyes, and superimpose the dot on the target.But what if you’re using open sights, and you need to keep both eyes open?

Here is the same concept applied to open sights:Open Sights – Dominant eye alignmentIn this picture, you can see that we’ve aligned the sight with the target with the dominant eye, but the non-dominant eye sees another set of sights. We have both eyes looking at the target (it’s not double), and the front sight is in focus (sorry for any slight imperfection in the alignment on the photo.)One problem that shows up on this photo is that the front sight is in focus, while the target is blurred. If you are of “bifocal age” as I am, then your distance prescription (or uncorrected vision, if you don’t need a prescription for seeing far away) doesn’t allow you to see the front sight and the target clearly.

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You might use your reading glasses to see the front sight, but then the target is too blurry. I do have an answer, though: Open Sights – How corrective shooting lenses can helpYou can have a pair of glasses made with your shooting eye corrected for the front sight, and your non-shooting eye corrected for distance.