And 7 years old. He's been shooting the Red Ryder and Cricket this way, so we have some bad habits, already. What is the best way to deal with this? Eye patch or shoot left handed?

At that age learn to shoot left handed.

It is easier to switch hands than it is eyes. He needs to shoot left handed. Sorry, Dad, you need to find the boy a left handed bolt action.

I can shoot just as tight right handed as I can left, and I do most things left handed. It takes my right eye longer to get focused on the target. I usually adjust focus as well as diopter when switching over to right handed.

I'll be deer hunting in Winters, Ballinger area Thursday to Saturday. Come by camp with him mid-day if I can be of any assistance.

I are wun. Shoot left-handed. And, tang safeties are useful.

That's what I figured. Thank you.

He's got a single shot, right now, so that won't be an issue, at least. When we upgrade, I'll just have to get him something backwards.

I would love to. I'm working in Midland right now and probably will be for awhile, but if we shut down for coil or something, I'll let you know.

I'm righthanded but shoot lefty for 48 yrs now due to eye accident. Never had a lefty rifle. I shoot shotties a lot more than rifles and looked into buying a lefty semi auto. Couldn't stand the feel of it. Now I have a fitted lefty o/u. Can't imagine how I got along without it.

I am in the same boat, 66 old though. I can have both eyes open looking through scope with left eye, using right eye I have to shut my left (go cross eyed if I try both open). Didn't realize this till a real late age, try to hold the rifle left handed it gets me all screwed up.
What should I do, if anything?

I am 50 now and I just close my left eye when rifle hunting. I shoot better than anyone I know that makes a big deal over how awesome they are because they can keep both eyes open.
Now shooting a shotgun is a whole different story.

I didn't realize it was backwards until you told me.

That must be why I can't hit anything with the shot gun, hard tracking birds with one eye closed.
Thought about an eye patch, just so I wouldn't look so dumb.lol

Nobody makes fun of pirates if they can shoot what they're aiming at.

I wish my parents would have caught my left eye dominance at a younger age and had me shooting lefty. It would have made shooting easier.

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Left eye dominant but ambi. Have shot RH rifles since 12 years old. 51 now. No issues at all. Its all in how you learn it. have never had a LH rifle but maybe one day. Even auto loading shotguns no problem. ARs without suppressor no problem. With suppressot (which I always run now) get a little gas splatter in my face. Go with the eye dominance. Save him a lot of bad shooting............Just one mans opinion whose worked with if for 40 years.....Also teach him how to shoot the bow LH. That will be huge in that arena

Right handed, left eye dominant here. I shoot left handed and have for decades. It's just been in the last ten years that I finally broke down and got a lefty bolt action. I also prefer rifles and shotties with a tang safety or modern sporting rifles with an ambidextrous safety.

Thanks guys. Appreciate the heads up on the bow shooting, too. I'll have to fix that before it gets worse, too.

After hunting and shooting for awhile when younger, I found out that I was left-eye dominate but right-handed. Started off shooting right-handed of course, but then switched to left-handed shooting for rifle and shotguns. Can shoot either way just as good, however it feels more comfortable to me shooting left-handed. Pistols I still shoot mostly right-handed.

Now bolts, semi's and autos aside, you can also look at lever-actions for him to learn on.

There are a ton more people left eye dominant than left hand. I work in the eye business and we see almost half the population is left eye dominant, well maybe not that Much but at least a third. Compare that to around a tenth of the population being left hand dominant and it makes
For some backwards shooting.

My son (right handed but left eye) shoots my right handed guns (left handed but right eye sort of, because I shoot a bow left handed, so I am really left eye dominant but just learned to shoot guns right handed and it works fine for me) just fine and cycles the bolt just fine. When it comes time to get him his own gun, I will get him a left handed gun.

I am righthanded and always have shot right-handed, using the right eye but my vision has changed for the worse over the last few years. I was shocked when I realized about three years ago that I was aiming my handguns with my left eye. I just can't focus the right eye on a front sight anymore.

Maybe time to see an optometrist.

Right handed, left eye dominant but shoot w/my right eye, left eye closed. I can't do anything w/my left hand so changing to shooting left handed is not/never was an option. I'm hoping Lasik will cure my awful astigmatism in my right eye & it'll help my iron sights/pistol/bow shooting. Scope has never been an issue.

I didn't realize this was so common. I just chalked it up to him being a weird kid. I mean, he's still weird, but not because of this, I guess.

You sayin I ain't weird?