[rquote=1443225&tid=100960&author=Parker][rquote=1443211&tid=100960&author=citybowhunter][rquote=1443204&tid=100960&author=Parker][rquote=1443174&tid=100960&author=citybowhunter]maybe i'm confused but the dominant eye takes over when both eyes are open. if you close the off eye when bow or scope hunting i don't think it's a problem at all. the open eye is dominant and the closed eye isn't. [/rquote]
Well, two places you shoot with one eye closed. Bow with a peep and a rifle.
Three places where you're better off shooting with both eyes open a majority of the time. Shotgunning, pistol shooting and instinct archery shooting.
Another thing to note.......your dominant eye is biologically BETTER than your other eye. Why use something that's inferior to something else sitting an inch away? :rof2:
Parker[/rquote]
i thought the normal eyes are 20/20. what makes the dominant eye better. it seems it's just the choice the brain makes to use that eye over the other one. i don't see through a peep site or scope any better with one eye over the other.
i'm just speculating. i'll leave it up to you guys. i'm just looking at it from common sense so i could be wrong. carry on. [/rquote]
I'm looking at it from a biological stand point. You can compare two things all you want to try to make them exactly the same, and when you get deeper and deeper into your comparison, one of those two things will end up showing as being superior. Even if both of your eyes show as 20/20, one eye over another is going to have a quicker route to your brain to receive and react to information faster, and in an overpowering (dominant) manner. Its just a fact of life.
You can muscle memory your body in to doing it against the way your body naturally wants to do it by closing your dominant eye, but your just fighting yourself, and the original reason for this thread it to help get new shooters interested in shooting, not frustrated about not being able to close an eye because that dominant eye wants to take over.
And you said common sense......wouldn't common sense say go with the method your body says is natural? :shrug:
Parker[/rquote]
you still haven't said anything that proves that looking through a peep site or scope is different between the two eyes. and if my body tells me i need to pee when i'm in my stand i chose to hold it against the years of it telling me otherwise so the body isn't always correct in pointing me to the wisest thing to do. i'm better off at this point shooting right handed with the weak eye open and the strong eye closed. i'm just throwing out a different opinion that says it's not a problem with peep sites or scopes. if i'm shooting a peep site on my bow than i'm not instinct shooting so the only problem left is with a shotgun (when not turkey hunting) and yes it would be better if i learned to shoot a shotgun left handed for wing shooting. as of now i just let the brain with years of learning how to shoot with the wrong eye on the barrel take over and it usually works.
sorry about this turning argumental. not my intention :cheers:
