Right hand shooter, left eye dominant

I'm right handed shooter, left eye dominant came someone help me with some pointer's how to over come this problem. All I see is the left side of the rib. The only way I shot is with my left eye squint.

 

Have you tried a blinder, or a sight from Meadow Industries that keeps you from seeing the sight with your left eye ..? I am a lefty but luckily am right eye dominant so I shoot right handed ... I have seen people tape the lense over the left eye to block it out also ... Good Luck, WPT ... (YAC) ...

Meadow Industries calls it a cross fire eliminater , they work but take a little getting used to ...

 

I'll look up the sight thanks

 

I'm right eye dom and shoot left handed.

I've tried all the gimmick's and the only thing that work's for me is closing my right eye

opposite for you.

 

Learn to shoot lefty. That’s the only real way to correct your issues. Everything else is a bandaid. You’ll waste an incredible amount of your life trying to correct what ultimately needs to be done. Learn to shoot lefty. Good luck and good shooting, Rey

 

Consider how old-timer shooters handled the problem.

In 1916 Horace W. Cadwallader, a Peters Cartridge Co. representative lost sight of his right eye. Here's the story.

Horace W. Cadwallader’s Accident

It was on April 16, 1916, that the accident happened, on the grounds of the Decatur Gun club. Mr. Cadwallader was inspecting the traps, and was standing about six feet in front of one when the lever was pulled and the target struck him in the eye, taking the orb out of the socket. For 90 days Cadwallader was kept in a dark room, and a greater portion of that time it was feared that the sight of the left eye would be impaired. It was not.

Most of us would have become disheartened after such an accident, but not Cadwallader. To him trapshooting was a pleasure as well as a business, and just as soon as he was able to get to the gun club again he tried his skill on the flying clays. He shot from the left shoulder, and at once realized that it would require several years of hard work before he could expect to make creditable scores shooting left-handed.

This caused Cadwallader to study ways and means of getting back into the greatest of all sports. The result was an extra rib attached to the trap-gin. This enables him to shoot from the right shoulder and sight with the left eye. The contrivance aids him in shooting them as when sighting with the right eye over the gun-rib, as the auxiliary rib is focused to shoot point blank at 40 yards; and by sighting over this extra rib with the left eye the gun will hit any object aimed at.

If one was a left-handed shooter and should lose his left eye, this appliance could be placed on the right side of the gun and allow him to sight with the right eye – and not have to learn a new position.

It required a lot of experimenting before Cadwallader was satisfied that he had the attachment to suit him. He broke 40 per cent of the first 100 targets shot at, and finished the year with an average of 96 for the last 700 targets thrown. For the 4285 targets trapped in registered tournaments he averaged 82 per cent.

The device may be attached to any gun and made to suit the requirements of any one, be he large or small. So thoroughly satisfied is Cadwallader over his success that he will gladly give his aid gratis to assist others. He is a sportsman of the highest type.

[ SPORTSMEN’S REVIEW, March 17, 1917, page 273 ]

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Horace G. Aldritt, of Excelsior, MN shot an offset stock. He won the Sioux Indian Championship in 1942 and was the Veteran Clay Target Champion at the 1966 Grand American tournament. His gun can be seen in the Trapshooting Hall of Fame museum.

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COMPLETED CAREERS
Horace Aldritt​

Horace G. Aldritt of Excelsior, Minn., passed away at age 90. He was a past president of the Minnesota State Trapshooters Association. He annexed Class A awards in the Grand American in the 1940 Introductory Singles and 1941 Clay Target Championship and was a member of the Minnesota squad which won the State Team championship in 1951. He earned the veteran trophy in the Clay Target Championship in 1966 and the same age-group prize in Saturday’s preliminary singles race in 1967.

Mr. Aldritt began shooting in 1930 and registered his first targets in 1932. His first year he averaged .9573 in singles and 94% in handicap. The second year he recorded the second-high average in the State. He was named to the All America second team in 1945. He secured the Minnesota State Singles title in 1935 and the all-around crowns in 1946 and 1957. He was the ATA Central Zone handicap titlist with 100 straight in 1955.

Mr. Aldritt captured several prizes in various events, including the Interstate Handicap in Cuba in 1941 and the Sioux Indian singles. Mr. Aldritt won the Minnesota Diamond Badge twice and was captain of the Minnesota all-state team in 1935. He teamed with three others to garner the Buck’s County, Pa. flyer challenge cup in 1939, 1940 and 1941.

According to the 1984 Average Book, Mr. Aldritt had registered 153,350 ATA singles targets with his 100,000t h being recorded during the 1965 Grand American. He had fired at approximately 200,000 other competition and practice targets, with the last being in 1973.

Mr. Aldritt, a former general contractor, belonged to the Twin City Gun Club, and was on the National Rifle and Pistol Team in 1919. He is survived by his widow Olga; two brothers, including former trapshooter Al, and two sisters.

[ TRAP & FIELD, June 1985, page 89 ]

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Enjoy Our History !

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Close one eye.

 

I am a right handed shooter that lost my site in my right eye started shooting left-handed did OK but never felt just right and now I’m starting to shoot again right handed found that if I use a very low drop stock like a sporting clays stock And if I don’t take my eyes off of what I’m shooting I never see the gun appearance of it but never really down the side if I’m looking at the target I am now breaking 23s and 25s in skeet haven’t tried it yet with trap I’m still working on it the brain is a magnificent piece of equipment it will learn to compensate

 

Kim Rhode is left eye dominant, she uses tape on her glasses--nuff said

 

History Buff ~~~

Is this Horace Aldritt's gun that was in the THOF museum ?

 

I believe it is.

 

Pretty cool stuff. I just learned to shoot left handed as a boy and never looked back.

 

Shot everything right handed till the mid 1980s when my left eye became dominant. So I learned to shoot left handed took about a year.

 

That is what I am. I tried all kinds of tape dots. Finally I made my own. They are not round they are egg shaped. I do close my left eye, but if you relax swinging to the target you peek.....LOSS. I have been on the 27 for the last 15 or so years. Don't let anyone try to change you. No two people shoot the same.

 

I have Used a Spot and or Tape for this Same Issue with Great Success.. Recently Tried a Cross Site Rib...Works Great Also,,,A Added Rib that Tapers Down in Center to Expose Hivis Bead. Not Something I would add to All The Guns..But a Nice Option for One Gun.