{"id":475,"date":"2007-12-07T21:54:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/2007\/12\/07\/cross-dominant-shooting\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T21:57:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T04:57:31","slug":"cross-dominant-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2007\/12\/07\/cross-dominant-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Dominant Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Subject: Cross dominance<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>After reading your report, I wanted to comment and get your opinion.\u00a0 I am one of the remarkable 10% and am right handed with left eye dominance, but not by much.\u00a0 When shooting a rifle I can close my left<br \/>\neye just enough to blur the vision and get a good sight picture with my right eye.\u00a0 However, when shooting a pistol, I will bring my gun up, focus on the sights and will usually be on target with my left eye, but<br \/>\noccasionally, I will notice that my right eye picks up the sights.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter as far as shooting since I shoot where I aim, but would you recommend that I stick to one eye or the other, or continue to shoot with the eye that picks up the sights?<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate what you are doing for the second amendment and for gun enthusiasts everywhere.\u00a0 I hope to get down to your training center in 2008 as I have a certificate for a free course, by linking to your<br \/>\nsite.\u00a0 What a fantastic offer that I wouldn&#8217;t think of passing up!\u00a0 My pleasure to put your links on my site also.<\/p>\n<p>Again, thanks for all you do, and thanks for the gun training reports! Great information and I go back and re-read them frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Mel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Mel.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep doing what you are doing.\u00a0 You may want to squint your non-dominant eye when shooting the pistol to avoid any confusion in the brain as to which eye should be picking up the sights.<\/p>\n<p>Ignatius Piazza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: Cross dominance Dr. Piazza, After reading your report, I wanted to comment and get your opinion.\u00a0 I am one of the remarkable 10% and am right handed with left eye dominance, but not by much.\u00a0 When shooting a rifle I can close my left eye just enough to blur the vision and get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[3341,2877,1369,3034,204,1656,4673,2054,776,581,2631,187,1477,3790,4791,77,10,44,232,2524,783,3350,2148,42,3803,4790,2652,31,1441,2473,765,4165,2869,339,69,1460,833],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}