I have been shooting and hunting with my wife for several years, she has always complained on not being able to see through the scope, me being dumb, your not holding it right then one day I said try shooting left handed she said I can see with both eyes open!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we rook out the 10/22 and she shot better than she ever has boy am I dumb, and now I have to buy her left anded rifles.

Is she left-handed? Blind in her right eye? Or merely left-eye dominant? If so, she should be able to shoot fine right handed by using the simple expedient of closing her left eye. Gasp! I know, all the "experts" say the "best" way is both eyes open, but I say the best way is any way that lets you see your sights and target.

When I was training sailors to shoot the M14, we had a gal that was right-handed and left eye dominant. Shot holding the gun righthanded and leaning over the stock to sight with her left eye. Looked as goofy as a football bat, but it worked for her and she could hit what she aimed at, so I let it go.

It is not the fact the she is left eye dominant is that is is a struggle for her to find the scope or the sights for her right eye even with the left eye closed. She just explained to me "when shooting right-handed the scope goes black, clear, black, clear, but wen shooting left-handed I can see clearly (through the scope) keep both eye open and hit what I'm shooting at" So that tells me she's a lefty, well dad will not have to wonder who be able to shoot his 06 after he's gone (hopefully it will be a long time).

My wife can't close her left eye and we had to teach her how to shoot left-handed. That girl couldn't hit the broad side of a barn until we switched her. Then, to my dismay, she actually out-shot me TWICE that day - something I will NEVER live down, never mind the fact that I was rusty and was not having a good day, not to mention the fact that she has never come close to out-shooting me since. :(

But, she doesn't seem to have much of an interest in shooting at this point - she figures that she's done it so she already knows how, and she's already reached the pinnacle of her abilities, so why mess with it further? I'm working on it though - I don't mind being showed up from time to time as long as she's putting rounds downrange with me. :)

She just explained to me "when shooting right-handed the scope goes black, clear, black, clear, but wen shooting left-handed I can see clearly (through the scope) keep both eye open and hit what I'm shooting at" .


This also describes the effect of a misaligned scope. A friend recently brought me a sporterized Mauser he had bought complaining about the same problem, Turned out the amateur who had drilled and tapped the receiver had put the front holes slightly off to the left.

This also describes the effect of a misaligned scope. A friend recently brought me a sporterized Mauser he had bought complaining about the same problem, Turned out the amateur who had drilled and tapped the receiver had put the front holes slightly off to the left.

But this happens on every rifle not just one, I can go right behind her and have no issues! You try shooting weak hand hand see how difficult it is. After all I'm VERY left-handed, but I shoot and throw right-handed, other than that my right hand is just in the way. She is comfy shooting as a lefty so I'm gonna leave her shooting as lefty.

It is often a good exercise for people with a flinch or other control problem to learn to shoot with their non-dominant hand for awhile, training themselves to avoid the problems they have habituated on their other side. There is no mechanical reason you can't do it, other than the dominant eye thing, which a fogged plastic cover over the non-sighting eye will take care of easily.

Odd knowlege: The best batters in baseball are often cross-dominant. Since you swing a bat with your dominant hand coming from behind, having the dominant eye on the other side lets you track the oncoming ball more easily.

It is often a good exercise for people with a flinch or other control problem to learn to shoot with their non-dominant hand for awhile, training themselves to avoid the problems they have habituated on their other side. There is no mechanical reason you can't do it, other than the dominant eye thing, which a fogged plastic cover over the non-sighting eye will take care of easily.

Odd knowlege: The best batters in baseball are often cross-dominant. Since you swing a bat with your dominant hand coming from behind, having the dominant eye on the other side lets you track the oncoming ball more easily.

The baseball fact is true. I know my coach back in high school used to always make us take some batting practice on the opposite side of the plate. This actually helped my shooting as well.

For a few years I wore two different contact lens. The left eye was for reading and the right for distance. I could see the cross hairs much clearer when shooting from the left side, and as someone wrote earlier, I found I didn't flinch at all from the left side.

I had shoulder surger in the late 90's and couldn't shoot for a year. I purchased and scopped a Contender hand gun and learned to shoot it left handed. Years later I still do if I have time to prepare for the shot.