Left Barrel syndrome

[Landy67]

I don’t know if there is such a thing, but I hit more often and harder with the left barrel than I do the right barrel. I can hit most of the targets at skeet with the let barrel even without the spreaders.

I noticed the other day that if I took 2 shots at a target, I always hit it with the second shot. I started focusing on keeping my eye in the center of the receiver, but I’ve noticed that I tend to tilt the gun slightly to the right, so the left barrel is higher than the right. This happens on my Parker and with my CZ Upland .410 (dual trigger, English stock IC/Mod)

I’ve noticed that if I do low gun, I seem to hit about 50/50.

Am I over thinking this, or am I shooting a SXS wrong?

[OH Osthaus]

you are probably over thinking the right barrel

and letting instinct take over on the left

[Landy67]

I'm a bit concerned that my left eye is asking over. I got new glasses this winter, and my eye doctor pointed out that my right eye is so week that he didn't think I could shoot right handed without a scope.

My new glasses are so distracting. For the first time I can see the front bead and the target. It's really odd.

I took a skeet shooting clinic with John Shima, and he told me that my left eye was "helping" my right and that was throwing me off. Now that I can see out of my right eye, it seems odd, but I shoot pretty good with my 1100. I can shoot as good as I can with my 1100, using the left barrel.

[Autumn Daze]

Dan, Put a piece of scotch tape over the left lens of your glasses when shooting. That is of course if you are shooting right handed.

[OH Osthaus]

http://www.wikihow.com/Determine-Your-Dominant-Eye

if you left eye is taking over - you can try frosted tape over it to let your right eye take charge

[Dean Romig]

Tell us about your new glasses.... Are the lenses "progressive"?

I don't know anybody who can shoot well at all with progressive lenses.





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[Landy67]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Tell us about your new glasses.... Are the lenses "progressive"?

I don't know anybody who can shoot well at all with progressive lenses.
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Yup. Progressive. I only look through the tops.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dan Hatton

Yup. Progressive. I only look through the tops.

So, you look through the top inner edge of the lens.... the area where distortion is the greatest - and after you miss with the right barrel your left eye takes over instinctively where it is looking out through a more centralized area of the lens and POW... you smash the bird.

I returned my progressive lenses years ago and got bifocals with the horizontal line through the lower third of the lens. I didn't care much about looking like an old man with bifocal spectacles.... heck I am one!
Not that I shoot much better with bifocals these days, but at least I can see the target clearly now.






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[Landy67]

Humm... I've been wanting to get dedicated shooting glasses. I bought some of the Browning shooting glasses with all the replaceable lenses, but they had a heavy solid frame above the lenses that got in the way, and now I know that without my prescription my left eye takes over

I'm not used to having colored lenses, but my optometrist recommends I wear sun glasses in the bright sun. Can anyone recommend prescription shooting glasses that I can shoot clear, and I can try colored lenses that don't cost a fortune?

[Dean Romig]

PGCA Member and frequent contributor to this forum, Harold Lee Pickens is an optomotrist and may be able to suggest something.





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