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Originally Posted by frostfire
Iirc master gene econ wrote here once that eye dominance is conditioned and can be changed, but I don't think that approach works with these two.
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I personally don't think eye dominance is such a black & white issue. I have seen eye dominance change in people over time, with & without corrective lenses. Not sure what other occupational or biological factors drive that. Having also dealt with that myself, after decades of being RH-RED and now LED, it may come down to defining what's the quickest-to-execute and most trainable for retention workaround. Also depends on what level of accuracy you're striving for, but if it works for the shooter there are no limits on off-dominance capability.
For me, long-gun was the easier of the two as I've always slightly squinted the left eye anyway to some extent based on level of precision desired. Full extension on the pistol, for me, is a much more instinct-driven thing and I found that slightly squinting the right eye IF I wanted real precision helped - chose that way because that's how the pistol comes up, a classic eye-dominance test with gun in hand. A couple of rimfire shooters I worked with, not wearing a blinder on one eye, found that even the slightest amount of squint helped and became natural after a very short time. Not closing the "off" eye at all, just enough to cause some degradation that makes the non-dominant (on the dominant side) take over. Kinda like when someone gives you the proverbial hairy eyeball. It doesn't take much to make that 'second' front sight disappear; making it disappear is, imho, better than asking the brain to make a choice for you.
Whatever works to achieve the result that is easily repeated by the student is, I think, where you want to go. Old Dog New Trick said what to do when that's found:
practice. When it gets down to the details, even those two may have differences in how they learn. Thread tagged & I'd be interested in a link for the ref you made to "conditioning" of eye dominance.
Good topic, thanks.