EYE DOMINANCE is integral to being a topshot but it is also often misunderstood and oversimplified. For those keen to shoot well, you need to know what your eye dominance is as precisely as possible. It can change suddenly or over time and have a huge impact on shooting. Men may experience changes of eye dominance in mid-life, while many women have visual issues that are never properly diagnosed.
Age and gender apart, fatigue, ill-health and certain activities (computer work, for example) may affect eye dominance. If you have strings of inexplicable misses, if some targets always escape you, or if you have days when you cannot hit a thing, it is worth considering whether eye dominance may be the explanation. Similarly, if you experience any sense of visual confusion when shooting.
Poor gunfit (too low a stock – perhaps only becoming evident at higher elevations) may also lead to apparently unaccountable shifts because vision to the eye that should be looking down the sighting rib is impeded by the mass of the action, causing the eye opposite the rib to take over.
To further complicate the issue, there may be a learned element to eye dominance that is not yet
