tape over glasses

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benjamin-benjamin

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anyone tried this (tape of non dominate eye).... i cannot shoot with both eyes open.... trust me i have tried.. just curious if anyone has tried this and had any luck...
 
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I see it a lot but I never had to use it. I practiced two eyes open dry fire heavily for about two weeks and now I'm GTG. I can even shoot my long guns both eyes open on the long range stuff. There are times I have to squint my weak eye to get the dominate eye to donits thing.

Give the tape a try. The idea makes complete sense and you still get to use your weak eye for target transitions.
 
I have tape on the glasses I shoot bullseye with. Closing my weak eye causes my strong eye to squint a little and makes my sight picture blury. With the tape over my weak side lens I can shoot with both eyes open and my sight picture stays clear
 
That brings up a good point. Those bullseye guys always have funky stuff on their glasses. Those blinders, sun shades, tape and a bunch if other stuff I don't understand. You might stop by and check out that heartland match on Tuesday nights. I bet those guys can teach you a thing or two. I can stand and shoot. What time is the heartland match again?
 
Dieseltech09 said:
I have tape on the glasses I shoot bullseye with. Closing my weak eye causes my strong eye to squint a little and makes my sight picture blury. With the tape over my weak side lens I can shoot with both eyes open and my sight picture stays clear
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any tape in particular you use??
 
Wouldn't just a vert. strip of scotch tape work?
Just enough to obscure your vision in that eye & force your brain to compensate by concentrating on the shooting eye. And then you'd still have the peripheral vision from that eye.
 
Wall said:
Wouldn't just a vert. strip of scotch tape work?
Just enough to obscure your vision in that eye & force your brain to compensate by concentrating on the shooting eye. And then you'd still have the peripheral vision from that eye.
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it would... i was just curious to what diesel used hopefully it is the same tape jesse is selling me for only 49.99
 
Wall said:
Wouldn't just a vert. strip of scotch tape work?
Just enough to obscure your vision in that eye & force your brain to compensate by concentrating on the shooting eye. And then you'd still have the peripheral vision from that eye.
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Yeah scotch tape will work. I just white masking tape cause Im cheap and all my extra money for the past year has been going to Mike. Alot of guys use the flip down eye piece but I just keep 2 pair of glasses in my range bag. 1 with tape and 1 with out.

Jesse the match is at 6pm.
 
I have a little different situation with my eyes. I am left eye dominate and shot long guns left handed like many others do. My Dr. has me on what he calls "mono" vision. My left eye has a contact for distance vision and my right eye has a contact for close-up (reading etc). If I use my dominate (left) eye when shooting handguns the target is in focus and the front sight is out of focus. If I use my right eye, then the sight is in focus but the target is out of focus.

Could I still benefit from shooting with both eyes open or am I a freak?

B
 
BurkLee said:
I have a little different situation with my eyes. I am left eye dominate and shot long guns left handed like many others do. My Dr. has me on what he calls "mono" vision. My left eye has a contact for distance vision and my right eye has a contact for close-up (reading etc). If I use my dominate (left) eye when shooting handguns the target is in focus and the front sight is out of focus. If I use my right eye, then the sight is in focus but the target is out of focus.

Could I still benefit from shooting with both eyes open or am I a freak?

B
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This gives me a headache. :blink:

Sounds like you could benefit, maybe, but I doubt it. The proper iron sight picture is a blurred target and crystal clear sights.
I really miss the days when I had good eyes, once upon a time I could focus on both my sights and the target and do it effortlessly. >:(
 
Scott Hearn said:
This gives me a headache. :blink:

Sounds like you could benefit, maybe, but I doubt it. The proper iron sight picture is a blurred target and crystal clear sights.
I really miss the days when I had good eyes, once upon a time I could focus on both my sights and the target and do it effortlessly. >:(
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getting old sucks, huh?
 
Benjamin Benjamin A friend of mine tried the tape method. Translucent tape, tape that will aallow light to pass but interferes with you seeing clearly works. It also is imprtant to put it the correct spot. When looking through the sight it sould obstruct the visoin of your nondominant eye. As yoyr head comes up for movement and doing other stuff it should be out of the way and you should be able to see clearly with nondominant eye. Just a little over halfway up your shooting glasses. Or at least that was what worked for him. I do not use the tape method as I am able to focus out of my dominant eye. Which is my left eye. I shoot riflles and shotguns left handed and the pistol is in my right hand. But it makes it handy for my wekhand shooting, good luck on your endevours. I may have mispelled some words as I can't find my seeing glasses at this point. Later rdd :cheers:
 
benjamin-benjamin said:
any tape in particular you use??
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I never learned to shoot with both eyes open, always had the left closed. I've been teaching myself to shoot with both eyes open as well.
I wear prescription glasses, so I don't use scotch tape or anything sticky adhesive. What I found works for me is to use Saran (plastic) wrap like you cover food dishes with. I tear off a strip and wrap it around my non-dominant eye glass lens. Blurrs vision enough for my dominate eye to work seeing the front sight, but still lets me have some sense of vision with my left eye. Also no sticky stuff to clean off of my glasses.

Lots of dry fire practice and I'm getting there.
 
I also have an eye dominance issue. I tried a blinder a few weeks back and it made things worse. My dom eye got blurry, after a few shots, for whatever reason and I got a bad headache. I've squinted for so long, about 27 years, that is the sight picture I'm used too. I'm going to try just tape today and see what happens.
 
foghorn918 said:
I never learned to shoot with both eyes open, always had the left closed. I've been teaching myself to shoot with both eyes open as well.
I wear prescription glasses, so I don't use scotch tape or anything sticky adhesive. What I found works for me is to use Saran (plastic) wrap like you cover food dishes with. I tear off a strip and wrap it around my non-dominant eye glass lens. Blurrs vision enough for my dominate eye to work seeing the front sight, but still lets me have some sense of vision with my left eye. Also no sticky stuff to clean off of my glasses.

Lots of dry fire practice and I'm getting there.
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ahhh saran wrap.... great idea...
 
I've used a cardboard blackout on shooting glasses over my non-dom eye before but I always have to make sure it's close enough to my eye to keep me from inadvertantly trying to focus on anything perhiperal. I'm left eye dom (and left handed) so that's part of the problem since I shoot rifle and shotgun right handed and pistol either. Check Creedmore or some of the other shooting supply places online for specialized patches and even shooting hats with extended flaps to wear depending on your preferred type of shooting sport.
 
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