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Determing Your Eye Dominance

For all of the shooters who want to know their true eye dominance. Here is a fool-proof way using a cell phone camera. You need a friend to take the picture for you. Stand about 10-feet back from the camera. We will assume you are right-handed. With your right hand, point directly at the camera lens with both eyes open and have your friend take the picture. If you are truly right eye dominant, when you look at the picture your right hand will be directly under your eye. Not everyone lines up as true right-hand right-eye. We give this system a rating. If you are right-handed and right-eye dominant and your finger is directly under your right eye that is R1.

• R2 would be between your eye and nose.
• R3 would be in front of your nose.
• R4 would be between your nose and left eye.
• R5 would be over your left eye. That would mean you are truly not right-eye dominant.

Then do the same with your left hand pointing at the camera lens. A true right-eye dominant shooter’s left hand would be under his right eye as well. The same test would be done for a left-handed shooter using L1 through L5. What you will find is that not all shooters have true eye dominance directly under the dominant eye. A right-handed right-eye dominant shooter can test and be a R2 and L3 that would show you where both eyes come together and focus simultaneously. This is the shooter’s true ocular center.

Also be aware of this. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. The ocular nerves cross in the center of the brain, so right is right and left is left. I have found that if you are a right handed shooter, you will have no issues if you are R1 through R3 with your right hand and vice versa for the left eye dominant shooter. Once you cross into R4 as a right handed shooter you will begin to see issues.

Also I am not a fan of testing eye dominance by placing your hands outstretched and making the triangle and looking through and closing an eye or by using the paper towel roll method. You can force an eye to be dominant by doing that.