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#10MinuteTalk - Cross-Eye Dominance and Riflescopes

Vortex Nation Podcast

Vortex Nation Podcast

Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation, Shooting, Vortex Nation Podcast, Wilderness, Binoculars, Rifle, Scope, Hunting, Vortex, Vortex Optics, Riflescope, Gun, Long Range

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It happens more often than you’d think. Someone is right handed, for example, but not necessarily right-eyed. Everyone has an eye that their body naturally relies on as its dominant eye, and if it happens to be opposite of your dominant shooting hand, people are often left scratching their head as to how they should go about shooting. Switch to the other hand to take advantage of the better eye? Try to train the weak eye? There are different answers to this question depending on the reasoning behind your eye-dominance (Some people simply don’t have a properly functioning eye on their strong hand side) but Reuben joins Jimmy and Mark here to discuss his recommendations for the majority of people he sees with this issue.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here to discuss with our dear friend Rubin all about

0:06.3

folks who are shooting that may find themselves cross-eyed dominant not necessarily cross-eyed, but cross-eyed dominant.

0:15.0

This happens when, I know I actually saw this the first time happen when it was my

0:20.4

father-in-law shooting. And we sent him all up with his gun,

0:25.2

and he hadn't shot much before, and so he had an AR.

0:29.0

And as he was holding it, and he's a right-handed guy,

0:31.8

so he was holding it like a normal right-handed guy, so he was holding it

0:32.9

like a normal right-handed shooter would hold it.

0:35.4

But he kept having a hard time seeing through the scope.

0:37.4

And we set the scope up just right with the mount,

0:40.8

with the eye relief, everything.

0:42.3

And so I was standing back, kind of pondering,

0:46.5

why could he possibly be having a hard time with this?

0:48.8

It's just right.

0:49.8

Then I did the whole kind of, let me see it,

0:52.0

and I pulled it over, it looked just fine for me and I was like I can't think of why this is and then all of a sudden he kind of brought his face all the way over so his left eye was looking through the optic and it was like boom he could he could all

1:04.4

the sudden use it but then the problem became if you're right-handed but left-eye

1:09.0

dominant or vice versa are you supposed to shoot with your face way over cocked on the side of the stock

1:16.2

or are you supposed to then just, you know what, I guess I'm left-handed now or I guess I'm right-handed now or

1:21.6

whatever. Your non-dominant hand then has to be used more.

1:25.0

So Rubin, you do all kinds of training here with dealers and customers and stuff like that

1:30.0

at Vortex, and I'm sure you've seen it more than a time or two with how much you've been

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