Do you shoot with one eye open?
 

Someone wrote that you should try to shoot the bow with both eyes open yesterday.....something I do not do so I tried it. It was hard to get used to, but I think I like it. I will continue to work on getting comfortable with it...although I am running out of time as early bow season is only 1 month away.

Both eyes open here. I thing you've really got plenty of time to get used to it. You'll be amazed at how quickly it becomes second nature to you and once it does you won't believe the difference.
Everyone can't do it though. It's difficult if not impossible for a right handed shooter who is left eye dominant or vice versa.

I have tried to shoot with both eyes open, but have not got it down yet. So for now, it is one open, and one shut.

I'm about 50/50 usually both open hunting, and one eye in competition.

I went out tonight and practiced some more with both eyes open. The coolest thing is watching the arrow fly to the target. I lnow you can see it when you shoot with one eye closed, but it is like the difference between normal TV and HD TV.

I am able to group pretty well at 25 yards. Right now it is a bit harder to move onto target and shot quickly, grouing well, but that should come with practice.

I like it.

Bow, shotgun, rifle, pistol, bb gun...

All should be shot with both eyes open...

i am a two eye shooter i found i fallow threw better when i watch my arrow fly after

I used to shoot both eyes closed, but that didnt work out so good. Seriously, I'm left eye dominant and shoot right handed. I'd like to shoot both eyes open but I just cant do it. I showed the guys at the range what happens when I use two eyes, not only did I miss the target but I sent an arrow sailing into the woods. I can train my eye to shoot both open, but if I'm not concentrating, its a big miss. I'd hate to have that happen when hunting.

closing an eye you lose field of view and all depth perception

do you close one eye drinking coffee? typing on a computer? opening a door? driving a car?

if you close an eye shooting your bow, there is a problem with eye dominance that you're ignoring or maybe a habit you've formed, and you can shoot all your life that way if you want to, but know what you're losing by doing it. finding what the cause of it is and fixing it opens a lot of doors (field of vision and depth perception being two very impoirtant thing bincoular vision provides vs monocular)

I used to shoot with both eyes open but over the years my left eye took over as the dominate eye. Now if I try to shoot with both eyes open the arrow flies far to the left of the Target

I use one eye. I too am left eye dominate but right handed so it is hard to shoot with both open.

i squint my left eye, and use my right, mostly out of habit i guess

Both eyes open for me...tried it a couple years ago and wouldn't shoot any other way now.

Believe it or not i am a right handed shooter who is left eye dominant and i can do. it. I only shoot with two eyes open whether its a rifle shotgun or bow.

I used to always close one eye, but this year I've been practicing with both eyes open. It really makes a difference as far as watching the arrow hit the target, just takes some practice

I have found that if you have problems with left eye dominance. You can put a patch over that eye or wear sunglasses with the right lens taken out this will train your right eye to be dominate. Once you have your right eye trained it makes it easier to shoot with both eyes if that's what your wanting

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
 

Shooting: both eyes open....Sleeping: 1 eye open!:s4:

Both eyes open. When I first started bow hunting, I only had one eye open. I found it made it real hard to see the deer standing there blending into the surroundings, trying to see it through that little peep sight. I would pull down on a deer, then loose them. Not all the time though. It made it so much better to have both eyes open because then I could see the deer better and where my arrow hit on them.

shotgun both, but with the bow just a 1 eye'd shooter. Tried both, but I;ve got enough issues w/o trying to introduce something else

I am very left eye dominant, I shoot compound right handed, recurves and longbows too.

Drive to work tommorrow with one eye shut and see what you miss and what is lost. Just saying is all ............

I find that i shot better with one eye because it focuses your attention to the sight

I do all of my shooting with both eyes open. Even scoped and un-scoped rifles. I find it helps with target acquisition and with a bow it helps me keep from "peeking" around the bow at the shot to watch the flight of the arrow. Also, you lose some depth perception without the binocular vision that comes with both eyes open. It took a bit of getting used to, but I shoot much better all the way around since I started shooting with both eyes open.

i shoot both eyes open. started doing it this spring so this will be my first season doing it

OK, I have joined the world of the both-eyes-open shooters. I have been shooting like that for the last 5 days and it is going well. My accuracy for 'aimed' shots is as good or better than before, and my fast aim shots are all hitting inside the bread basket using my 25 yard and under pin.

I am having a little harder time with my 35 yard pin for the fast aim shots, as the pin being close to the top and bottom pin is slightly hard to visually isolate when lining up the shot.

I still need to get out at last shooting light, using my illuminated pins, and see how it looks.

I am loving seeing the arrow fly towards the target in 3-D:-)

then close one eye driving to work tommorrow ...... it'll focus your attention, right?

Actually it probably would. I know I'd be paying a lot closer attention if I were driving and suddenly lost vision in one eye.:s1:

I think what he's trying to say is that it's easier for him to focus on the pin and put it on the target with one eye closed. Some folks just can't do the both eyes open thing.

BUT,you need your attention focused on the target.:s1:

That's true, of course, but that isn't going to do him much good if he sees more than one pin and isn't able to focus his attention on which one to use.

I haven't been following the thread,just opened the last page.

BUT,with that said,when someone is seeing double like this,there is usually a reason.Like shooting with the non dominant eye or focusing on pin instead of just looking at the target.

I used to have this trouble when using my slider but was able to train myself to relax and focus on the target and let the pin become 1 with the target.

Yeah i guess but im one of those people who do both so haha

took me a few weeks to get used to shooting with both eyes open but i just started out shooting close (around 10 yards) until i got comfortable with it. shoot much better once i got the hang of it.

I refuse to believe that I am incapable or relearning a habit like closing an eye - and because I did it, I KNOW others can.

I am extremely left eye dominant, I am 100% right handed.

I will not change to shoot left handed because my mind/body has learned a lifetime how to coordinate this.

I will not close an eye, doing so would (A) lose field of view and (B) depth perception and (C) would be against everything I do 99.9999999999 % of the rest of the time.

Okay... so YOU happen to be capable of teaching yourself to do that. It doesn't change the fact that some people can't do it. Some people can't say "aluminum" or "indubitably" either. It's just the way things are. Everyone isn't made the same.

ok, whatever, ignore the facts

I'm all for everyone shooting however they want to, but do it knowing you've just reduced your binocular vision to monocular and you've reduced your field of view and depth perception

I'm sure none of that matters to anybody who would want to bowhunt though

But I remember post after post of you crying that your getting inconsistent shooting. maybe its thats vertigo.

I am just saying.

I was wondering that myself. I do left shut right open. I am left eye dom but have been able to adjust my sights. Keeps people from asking to borrow my guns and bow when I tell them they would be way off to the left they shut up.

Wow! I missed this somehow. What in the world are you talking about? You really should try reading the whole thread before you throw out sarcasms. I DO shoot with both eyes open and encourage everyone else that can to do the same for the EXACT same reasons you say it's a good idea. I'm simply stating that there are some people who find that it's not possible for them. I don't understand your hang-up with that unless you're just one of those people who isn't happy unless they're arguing.

I shoot both eyes open until I get to around 40 yards, then for some reason I close one eye. Guess I need to start practicing both open out to 60.

When you are zeroed in on a hair of a spot on the shoulder of a deer that you already know the distance on, why in the world would it matter if you've decreased your field of vision or your depth perception??

I can tell you from experience,that when you get a deer inside 10 yards and have 1 eye closed,it is very difficult to know exactly where your pin is at on the deer.

Whenever possible 1 should try to learn how to shoot with both eyes open.There are exceptions but MOST people can learn to do it.Like I stated earlier,if you can't,there is usually a reason.One of the biggest is not having the peep in the right location.This causes you to contort your head so you can see through the peep but you are not able to open the other eye comfortably.


It does take practice and in some cases it may take a couple to 3 weeks to get used to but like I said,most can do it.


If you are not shooting with your dominant eye,I advise switching.Or atleast giving it an honest try.

My own daughter shoots lefty because of her eye dominance but is right handed and she does fine with it.