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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: DC on August 12, 2015, 04:39:32 pm

Title: Dominant eye
Post by: DC on August 12, 2015, 04:39:32 pm

I can't seem to get any of the methods of determining dominant eye to work. There's one where you make a circle with your hands and then look through it at something far away, then pull your hands toward you. The eye you end up on is your dominant eye. You all know this. Anyway with me when I hold up my hands to make a hole I get two equal holes and I don't know which one to find the distant object in. For me it seems to be a conscious choice. Is it possible that I don't have a dominant eye?

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: Pappy on August 12, 2015, 05:07:08 pm

Cut a hole in a piece of cardboard , look through it at something small with both eyes open then close one eye if you can still see it that is your dominant eye when you shut the other you won't be able to see what you were looking at . Pappy

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: DC on August 12, 2015, 05:44:53 pm

OK I tried that. When I hold the cardboard up I see a sheet of cardboard with two holes in it. The object I was looking at is hidden behind the space between the two holes. I have to pick a hole to look through. If I pick one hole I appear to be right eye dominant. If I pick the other hole I appear to be left eye dominant.

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: DC on August 12, 2015, 05:57:31 pm

I just phoned the optometrist to see if it was in my records. It wasn't so they tried to talk me through a test(the receptionist is an archer) and when I said I could see two holes she made me an appointment to see the Dr.

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: Pat B on August 12, 2015, 06:07:57 pm

If you shoot instinctively it really doesn't matter which eye is dominant.

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: Adam on August 12, 2015, 09:41:15 pm

Most people have a dominant eye, but to different degrees, similar to being right or left handed.  Some people rely on one eye 75% of the time and 25% on the other.  Those people can do the tests you mentioned and figure it out easily.  Some other people may have one eye (that's dominant) that they use 51% of the time.  Those people are like ambidextrous individuals.  I'd say if you're having trouble telling which eye is dominant, it's probably close enough that it won't make an appreciable difference.

What eye do you use when looking through a camera viewfinder or in a telescope?

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: DC on August 12, 2015, 09:55:50 pm

My left but I'm sort of left handed and I can hold them steadier on that side.

Title: Re: Dominant eye
Post by: crooketarrow on August 13, 2015, 08:01:54 pm

  Pats right you only need to use your dominant eye when useing sights or or you gap shooting useing your point as a sight.