Dominant Eye

[M.T. Pockets]

I'm a volunteer Firearms Safety Instructor and we just wrapped up our spring class. One of the first things we have the students check is their dominant eye. It's not uncommon for some one to have a dominant eye that is different from their dominant hand, I'd guess about 10% of the kids. The head instructor is also a State Patrol Officer, he recommends the students learn (at their young age) to learn to shoot with their dominant eye. From his police training he's learned that when your heart rate or blood pressure reaches a certain level your dominant eye takes over no matter how hard you try to use the other eye. In the Police Academy he said it is required that officers learn to shoot their hand guns with their dominant eye.

I'm feel fortunate that I'm right eye dominant and right handed. I can't even eat left handed let alone learn to shoot left handed.