Right Handed, Left Eye Dominant Child

[Macintosh]

If he ever picks up a shotgun he will MAJORLY thank you for teaching him to shoot on the side of his dominant eye.

 

[Nine Banger]

If he ever picks up a shotgun he will MAJORLY thank you for teaching him to shoot on the side of his dominant eye.

Yeah,

It seems like some of this advice in this thread assumes shotgun shooting and pistol shooting are not both eyes open activities.

Almost all great shooters I know shoot pistol, shotgun and rifle with both eyes open and on the dominant side.

The only exceptions I've seen to that are shooters where the parent/mentor pushed them to learn on the wrong side....and then I met @SloppyJ.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

My daughter is the same. Bite the bullet and buy the equipment that best fits your child naturally. It will make it more enjoyable for them, therefore they will want to do it more.

 

[MTRaine]

Start him with his dominant eye and never look back. He'll appreciate it in the long run.
Im left eyed dominant and very very right hand dominant. I have cerebral palsy and am hemiplegic to my left side. (meaning my left side is my weak side) I learned to shoot rifles and shotgun left handed right off the bat.
I struggled trying to shoot archery left handed when I was younger and instead shot right handed because my left arm was so weak. A couple years in and my shooting game for archery was a complete train wreck. Started back at square one shooting a left hand 30lb bow in 8th grade. Within a few months my success shooting lefthand archery far surpassed where I was shooting right handed.
Now at 35 shooting lefty is so instinctual it's crazy, but if I try to pick up a rifle or shotgun and shoot right handed you'd swear I've never shot a firearm in my life.

 

[Deeker]

I am right hand dominant and left eye dominant. Didn’t know it until I was in my mid twenties when I was having a real bad issue with missing when bird hunting. Also the same season I switched to a different gun. I grew up working at a trap and skeet club. From 12-18. So I have shot many many thousands of rounds out of a shotgun.

What I have found is that there is a bit of a learning curve between different weapons. Slight adjustments make a big difference.

Shotguns- fit of the gun makes such a big difference. I will go from a very above average shotgun shooter to the laughing stock of a bird hunt, if I switch up guns. I can not try my buddies guns, because I cannot rely on the bead to be where the gun is actually aiming. I shoot benellis, they have shim adjustments in the box when you buy a new one. I take gun out and set up 3 pieces of paper at 30ish yards across a sheet of plywood. Pull bead off gun and then shoot shots at the paper as fast as I can. Then I switch up shims until I find a combination I like. I use the ammo and choke I hunt with.

Bow hunting- I switched up to a single pin, which was a huge help. But my main fix here is I blink my left eye and watch to see what set of pins disappears. It’s the right side all the time. But by blinking my brain can remember that it is the correct set of pins to shoot with. Super simple fix there, and it does nothing to shot sequence.

Pistols- By far the hardest, and my least practiced firearm. On this I know what I do is wrong But I hardly shoot pistols. This one I just close an eye. Not the same one everytime. Still trying to figure out what works best for me. And then I manipulate the gun to match which eye I want open on a given day.


Rifles- By far the easiest. Aquire the target with both eyes open. Once safety comes off I close my left eye.

Hope any of this helps. Keep working at it with ur boy. He will get it Worst they will happen is you have to spend more time shooting guns and hanging out.

 

[RedSmoke]

I grew up being told by a lot of people that eye dominance was important but as I've gotten more experienced I've found that it doesn't matter at all. It's much easier to teach yourself to use another eye than it is to teach yourself how to shoot with your offhand.

 

[TripleJ]

I am left-handed and right-eye dominant. Since I was a kid, I have always shot bows and rifles right-handed. It's second nature to me.

My oldest son is right-handed and left-eye dominant. It was pretty obvious when he was young, so I had him learn to shoot left-handed.