How to aim a rifle?
06-21-2012 | 07:39 AM
#11
Spike
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Make sure you have a backstop so your shots don't go into your neighbors yards. Also, buy little targets and practice. Shooting a real firearm/air rifle is nothing like call of duty. For one thing, the sights sway up and down, and you are going to hit everything you point at everytime because of this. To reduce sway, prone and crouching work, but the best is to rest the front of the rifle on something, such as a log pile or a backpack. do not try to shoot at running animals, that's what a shotgun is for.
06-21-2012 | 07:41 AM
#12
Spike
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get a small piece of pipe, or a sheet of black construction paper with a 1-1.5" hole in the center, hold it at arms length, look through the hole at a small object, keeping the object in view at all times both eyes open, bring the paper back against your face, keeping the target object always in view, which eye are you looking at the object with when the paper is against your face? that is the eye to use shooting.
I was born right handed, left eye dominant, and couldn't hit nothing till I went against my dad's instructions and started shooting left handed.
RR
I was born right handed, left eye dominant, and couldn't hit nothing till I went against my dad's instructions and started shooting left handed.
RR
06-21-2012 | 07:52 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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I've been watching this thread since he first posted it, and I'm really disappointed it took almost an entire week to get the right answer...
If you're looking down the sights and you open your opposite eye and your view changes (like you're saying happens), then you're using the wrong eye.
Since you don't really know how to shoot yet, I'd recommend switching handedness on the rifle. It's pretty easy to teach your left hand how to shoot, it's almost impossible to re-program your brain to utilize your non-dominant eye. Yes, you can force your focus to switch (blinking, squinting, etc with your left eye will force it to the right eye), but no it's not going to be as fast or reliable as simply switching hands and using your dominant eye.
If you're looking down the sights and you open your opposite eye and your view changes (like you're saying happens), then you're using the wrong eye.
Since you don't really know how to shoot yet, I'd recommend switching handedness on the rifle. It's pretty easy to teach your left hand how to shoot, it's almost impossible to re-program your brain to utilize your non-dominant eye. Yes, you can force your focus to switch (blinking, squinting, etc with your left eye will force it to the right eye), but no it's not going to be as fast or reliable as simply switching hands and using your dominant eye.
06-21-2012 | 09:16 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: West Central Illinois
get a small piece of pipe, or a sheet of black construction paper with a 1-1.5" hole in the center, hold it at arms length, look through the hole at a small object, keeping the object in view at all times both eyes open, bring the paper back against your face, keeping the target object always in view, which eye are you looking at the object with when the paper is against your face? that is the eye to use shooting.
I was born right handed, left eye dominant, and couldn't hit nothing till I went against my dad's instructions and started shooting left handed.
RR
I was born right handed, left eye dominant, and couldn't hit nothing till I went against my dad's instructions and started shooting left handed.
RR
06-21-2012 | 11:37 AM
#15
Typical Buck
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From: southwestern va
or put your hands together at arms length so there is a space in the middle of them you can put on an object. Now close first your right eye and then your left....whichever eye is open and still on the target is the dominant eye. Once you are shooting with your dominant eye, you can shoot with both eyes open or one closed....in hunting situations i like one eye open because you can see what the animals doing easier, as well as how it reacts to the shot.
06-21-2012 | 07:54 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Kansas
Nah, I really just couldn't care less if the kid figured it out so I didn't feel the need to respond. "Teaching yourself to shoot" is a lot like teaching yourself to tapdance. If the guy wants to learn how to shoot, he needs to find someone to learn how to shoot from (besides call of duty).
06-22-2012 | 10:54 AM
#17
Spike
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Nah, I really just couldn't care less if the kid figured it out so I didn't feel the need to respond. "Teaching yourself to shoot" is a lot like teaching yourself to tapdance. If the guy wants to learn how to shoot, he needs to find someone to learn how to shoot from (besides call of duty).
We all at one point didn't have any idea how to shoot. You can teach yourself, it just takes longer than if you have help.
06-29-2012 | 09:44 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: Allegan, MI
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I can't believe Nomercy let the Poor Guy suffer for a whole week before he reponded....Now I know how You got Your nickname!
***Hard to believe, but some people are just dicks and it looks like he's one!!! Bad enough to make the first post, but then to come back with that rejoinder shows he's a big one!
I can't believe Nomercy let the Poor Guy suffer for a whole week before he reponded....Now I know how You got Your nickname!
***Hard to believe, but some people are just dicks and it looks like he's one!!! Bad enough to make the first post, but then to come back with that rejoinder shows he's a big one!