One eye open or two?
 

I've been making a lot of changes this off season including starting to shoot with both eyes open. At first it was awkward now I wonder why I ever kept one eye closed. After a small adjustment period it just seems more natural. So i want to know.....

RE: One eye open or two?
 

I keep one eye open but will have to try both open. Do you still look thru your peep? Did it take long to get adjusted?

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The good Lord gave each and everyone of us 2 eyes so I would have to say use both of them!

Do ya drive, golf, watch tv, mow the grass, work etc etc with one eye closed?:eek:

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Well, before I quit drinking I used to drive with one eye open! Duc I took my peep off a couple of weeks ago. It is NOT going back on. The adjustment period only took a couple of practice sessions.

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I've been having trouble seeing thru my peep clearly here lately. I might try it here in another week.

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Both but it dont really help seein I am blind in one eye and cant see out the other

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Both eyes open? Okay... Yes I do - when using my Remington 870 12GA and skeet shooting! ;)

Both eyes open for archery? Not on your life... Whenever I try to open my right eye (I'm a lefty and left eye dominant) everything goes to heck in a handbasket and I see two targets or two sets of sight pins. If I try to shoot, I have no idea which image to shoot at!!!

Let's face it... I'm a nutcase... :(;)

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The same thing happens to me when I open both eyes, but I still do it anyway. I just focus on the right image. I have noticed increased accuracy while shooting with both eyes open.

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They say it's good for shooting rifle, so I'd say it's good for bow too!

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I have shot archery decently at the state and national level. Taking second and third place respectively. I am a rifle eye shooter. I close my left eye since I'm right handed. If I could change anything about my shooting, I'd learn to shoot with both eyes open. Especially for hunting. I think that if you can do it, shoot with both eyes open.

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I shoot just as accurately both ways.

I shoot with one eye open though because I've yet to condition myself to remember to keep both open.

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Both open for me.

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2 4 me...

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one eye for me right handed left eye dominate i close my dominate eye. That's why i shoot a gun left handed but can shoot right as well

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I just started to shoot with both eys open. I only used 1 eye for 30 years and I wish I started to use 2 eyes a long time ago. Oh well. I still use my peep though to line up my site with 1 eye . I then open both eyes and shoot. What a difference with 2 eyes. I like it a lot

Hatchet Jack

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I squint or close my left for a split second as I start to sight to let my right eye grab the image and then I have both open.
I don't know why I have to do it with the bow, I don't need to when using a firearm, scoped or open sights.
Must just be because I'm newly back into shooting the bows.

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About 5 years ago, a guy I met at the range gave me some pointers to help my shooting. He had me do a few things.
1.) Come down on the target instead of under it. I was surprised how easy it was tolower my bow, compared with raising it, once I had drawn. I guess it is a subconscious thing.

2.) He had me relax my bow hand fingers and take a low grip.

3.) He told me to shoot with both eyes open.

I shot a Robin Hood in the next 5 arrows and busted the fletchings off of three. He was so mad he threw his hat down. He really helped me alot. I like the increased field of vision with both eyes open. Yet, I will say that when the light starts to fade, I will close my left eye. I have practiced in lower light conditions and found that my less dominant eye (left) will take over in such conditions because the peep blocks too much light. If I shoot both eyes open in low light I will always shoot right.

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I shoot RH but am left eye dominant. I've always shot with only one eye open. Actually, I've never tried shooting with two, I always figured that while shooting 'backwards', it wouldn't work.

...I shoot long guns left handed, and about half of the time both eyes are open.

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2 eyes for me allways have shot that way iam right handed and i cant close my left eye and keep my right eye open at the same time its eather both open or both shut.

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both eyes...it just seems to work better that way for me.

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with a peep i'm the same as arjuna. when dark is coming on i have to squint my left eye and sometimes close it, besides that its both open. with a no-peep, always both open.