tape over glasses

[Scott Hearn]

So I have a question.

Is the tape on the glasses thing a temporary thing? I've been trying and having some luck aiming with both eyes open but I'm not there yet.
It seems that certain scenarios are still hard while others are pretty easy. In side (dry firing) in a lower light setting I'm actually having pretty good luck. But when outside with brighter light and farther aiming points, not so much. I'm getting better as time goes along but would the tape help me to get to a point of finality? Or is it something that has to be done from now on?

I remember that "Kelly" guy on Top Shot did this. He didn't seem like someone in training or with limited experience.

 

[foghorn918]

So I have a question.

Is the tape on the glasses thing a temporary thing? I've been trying and having some luck aiming with both eyes open but I'm not there yet.
It seems that certain scenarios are still hard while others are pretty easy. In side (dry firing) in a lower light setting I'm actually having pretty good luck. But when outside with brighter light and farther aiming points, not so much. I'm getting better as time goes along but would the tape help me to get to a point of finality? Or is it something that has to be done from now on?

I remember that "Kelly" guy on Top Shot did this. He didn't seem like someone in training or with limited experience.

It will be a temporary thing. A training aid. Eventually you are teaching your brain and dominant eye to do their thing to focus on the front sight. When I go to the range now I'm shooting with both eyes open and not using the saran wrap on the glasses and I'm doing fine picking up the sight. I still use the wrap at home practicing target acquisition. It's kind of like dry-firing to build muscle memory for your trigger pull, the more you practice the more it becomes automatic.

 

[dugby]

I have seen a lot of the sporting clays competitors using a piece of tape to keep them from cross firing. I have never felt a need to try it. I feel what some would call cross firing is a part of my shooting on close fast targets. I am concerned that pushing the situation with the piece of tape is letting the wrong part of your brain work and is counter productive.

If you are shooting from the hip which eye is dominate? One of my shooting buddies can break clays all day long from the hip.

IMO Shooting is largely a sub conciousness process where we rely on experience and/or recall from those processes to guide our muscles.

I like to keep the door open to all the information you can get. The amount of information you can handle instictively is easily underestimated. Think about giving it good information and all of the information. i.e. guns that shoot to the sights, vision correction that keeps the sights in focus