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[Ray Barnes]

Originally Posted by piette

Ya, fortunately she is young so we can train her eye to go back to right eye dominant yet. Another reason I am glad I bought her a rifle at 8 years old, we were able to identify this at a very young age and can overcome it so she can shoot right eye-right handed eventually

Jeff

Originally Posted by piette

My daughter is a left eye dominant right handed shooter as well. We are trying to fix that right now. When we go shooting I bought her some really nice shooting glasses and blacked out the left lens on them. This forces her to look with only her right eye. We do this for about an hour and then she takes them off for a little bit and she is slowly working the amount of time she can shoot right eyed up. Confused the heck right out of me why she was leaned so far over the gun to look through the sites when we first went.

Her being only 8 years old it is something that can be remedied yet with some practice.

Jeff

I shot competitive skeet for a number of years and I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I would just put a small piece of gift wrapping tape (little smaller than the the diameter of a dime) on the lens left side lens of my glasses. This would let me see with both eyes open. It would just block out the end of my barrel with my left eye and force the right eye to take over. This might help your daughter a little better than totally blocking off the left lens. It will definitely help her judge the distance and speed better. Please don't take this as I'm trying to tell you what to do, just trying to help.
If your interested here are the steps to set it up for her.

Have her mount the gun as if she is getting ready to shoot.

Stand in front of her and site down the barrel as she aims the firearm.

Place the small piece of tape on the lens of her left eye that would cover the end of the barrel.

[Herbie67SS454]

"Stand in front of her and site down the barrel as she aims the firearm.

And make double triple sure that the gun is unloaded.
I am sure you meant standing in front of her but still looking down the barrel from back to front.
My wife also is right handed but shoots left handed. She also catches with her left hand but also throws right handed.
She can write with either hand but prefers right.

[BillsCamino]

Originally Posted by piette

Bill, have you noticed Ithaca Guns USA, is no longer and is now Ithaca Gun Company? The original Ithaca got nailed for manufacturing there own recievers and not paying the federal tax on each one of those recievers they made. They went under paying the fines, and were immedietly scooped up and reopened. This happened in 2007 I believe

Yes, it was 2007.
Hopefully the gun quality has not changed.
We still have my Dad's Ithaca 16 guage that he bought when he was 17. A GREAT gun...had to be re-blued once and had the firing pin replaced once. Spent thousands of hours afield.
Where I grew up in WNY, you're only allowed to deer hunt with a shotgun & slugs...or a pistol if licenced.
My one brother is deadly with his Ithaca 37 20 guage w/20" slug barrel and open sights. Always a head shot so he doesn't "waste any meat".

Sadly, I haven't been out hunting since my Dad passed in '87...miss those days...

[Highway Star]

Originally Posted by BillsCamino

Yes, it was 2007.
Hopefully the gun quality has not changed.
We still have my Dad's Ithaca 16 guage that he bought when he was 17. A GREAT gun...had to be re-blued once and had the firing pin replaced once. Spent thousands of hours afield.
Where I grew up in WNY, you're only allowed to deer hunt with a shotgun & slugs...or a pistol if licenced.
My one brother is deadly with his Ithaca 37 20 guage w/20" slug barrel and open sights. Always a head shot so he doesn't "waste any meat".

Sadly, I haven't been out hunting since my Dad passed in '87...miss those days...

NY may have some of the finest shotgunners for that exact reason. My last two taken in the Finger Lakes, were both head shots from better than 50 yards...with my 870 mag pump, 18" smooth barrel, open sights, and 3" magnum rifled slugs. I'm surgical with that thing up to about 100 yards.

[Ray Barnes]

Originally Posted by Herbie67SS454

"Stand in front of her and site down the barrel as she aims the firearm.

And make double triple sure that the gun is unloaded.
I am sure you meant standing in front of her but still looking down the barrel from back to front.
My wife also is right handed but shoots left handed. She also catches with her left hand but also throws right handed.
She can write with either hand but prefers right.

This is why I don't like to respond to post.

Your right I shouldn't have assumed he practiced proper gun safety. But he did sound like he did.

I would hope that anyone that owns a gun or otherwise would have the enough sense to not look down the barrel of a gun without checking to see if it's not loaded. If you don't know how to check it, you shouldn't own it.

No, I didn't mean stand behind her. If he feels unsafe doing it...then don't.

When checking to see if a gun (shotgun,rifle,etc) has the proper fit for a person sooner or later you will have to stand in front of them to check for proper sight path.

[piette]

You were safe making that assumption with me Ray. Even my 8 year old daughter has better firearms handling skills than many people i know. She knows how to check the chamber on every single firearm I own and she owns. All my semi auto pistols, my revolver, the pump shotguns, the bolt actions, the break action, and the lever action 30/30.

She is one gun safe little girl, she impresses all the guys down at the range every week with her gun handling skills. She makes me so proud.

Jeff

[Ray Barnes]

I have two daughters (10 and 15) they both understand and respect our firearms.

I think it's great that you and your daughter share this activity. Mine don't show much interest but they do know the rules.

[rak1]

Me too; I bat, and play my Gibson left handed but I bowl right handed. however, I can do almost every thing with both hands including writing. When I was younger they said my right eye was a lazy eye and they had me wearing a patch over the left eye for almost a year swatting tennis balls hanging from the celing with a plastic bat. Arg....

Originally Posted by Highway Star

Me too. Do you bat righty or lefty?


Nice score by the way, D.

[R66SS427]

Originally Posted by BillsCamino

Yes, it was 2007.
Hopefully the gun quality has not changed.
We still have my Dad's Ithaca 16 guage that he bought when he was 17. A GREAT gun...had to be re-blued once and had the firing pin replaced once. Spent thousands of hours afield.
Where I grew up in WNY, you're only allowed to deer hunt with a shotgun & slugs...or a pistol if licenced.
My one brother is deadly with his Ithaca 37 20 guage w/20" slug barrel and open sights. Always a head shot so he doesn't "waste any meat".

Sadly, I haven't been out hunting since my Dad passed in '87...miss those days...

Bill, what part of wesrern NY are you from? I hunt Allengany county (Centerville). Have family there. They have now opened it up to rifle.

[BillsCamino]

Originally Posted by R66SS427

Bill, what part of wesrern NY are you from? I hunt Allengany county (Centerville). Have family there. They have now opened it up to rifle.

Born/raised in Tonawanda (Buffalo).
Family owns quite a bit of property just south of Franklinville (Humphrey Center)...a few miles off of Rt 16. The property backs up on about a billion acres of State owned land.