Maybe it would be easier to learn how to shoot left handed. Your eye dominance is reinforced all day/every day. Shouldering a long gun is a single-application motion.
Yeah, learning to shoot left-handed is the best solution, except that most guns are made for right-handed people. Autoloaders tend to eject in front of you when you shoot left-handed unless you have a left-handed gun, which is rare and generally more expensive. I think shotgunners are especially distracted if multiple targets are flying like skeet.
Good point. You see handguns with an ambidextrous safety and/or mag release, but I never thought of the casings flying in your face.
Another thing I always had trouble with was single lens microscopes. In school they told us to always keep both eyes open to avoid eye strain. I always used my right eye to look through the lens just because I adjusted the focus with the right hand. It was hard to not see what the dominant left eye was seeing (the table), so I ignored them. They never said anything about dominant eyes back then.
You get the same recommendation for shooting...even using a scope. I've not shot enough with a scope to have a strong opinion, although it sounds confusing to me. I cannot imagine any schoolkid using a single lens microscope and not closing one eye. In the shooting scenario, the idea is that you gather info regarding the surroundings,which may be of some value. But as you said, why look at the countertop? If I recall correctly, the idea is to reduce eye strain. Processing irrelevant data seems distracting to me.
Some people can view through a single lens and draw with the other hand and eye what they see. I could never master it, but I am not any kind of artist.
When I first shot a rifle, it was at a range and the guy next to me brought in his paper target which I was apparently shooting too.
Hi Mary. Jumpin' junipers! I didn't expect almost all of them to survive. It seems like plants just make up their minds to live or not, and it doesn't really matter how many pains you take planting them, or not. At least every other one has to come out eventually. {sniff} I will try to teach these to grow tall and narrow, unlike the old ones that were neglected.
Satellite TV went out mid-morning Friday. Cleaned snow off dish. Checked splices in line. Tried the usual reset things. Nothing for the next 8 hours. It shouldn't have gotten out of alignment. No signs of Bigfoot in the snow. Satellite Finder App was already on the phone, so I checked anyway. Started twisting the pole toward the angle it suggested, until I realized that couldn't possibly be correct and stopped. For sure the alignment was messed up now. By then it was dark and raining. Coincidentally, while decluttering last month, I ran across a meter I got to locate the satellite at the farm. I forgot all about it. Took an hour to re-find it. Next morning prepared for 2 flights of stairs just to check incremental adjustments. It worked the first time. {Thank you} However, when I disconnected the meter and reconnected the wires, receiver lost the signal again. One other person in the whole world (on a forum in New Zealand) had that exact same problem. His solution required changing some settings made on his dish when first installed by the company. Another person suggested he was just focusing on the wrong satellite. Put the meter back on. Twisted the pole back towards where I thought it should be. This time it found a strong signal in that direction. Took it off, reconnected the wires and this time it worked. Things are now firing on all but one of the 32 cylinders transponders---at 90 or above. Probably better than before the outage. Now that it's over (knock on wood) I have a feeling reception would have come back eventually anyway if I had just left everything alone. Wasted almost 24 hours? I guess I learned something. But what? That I don't seem to function well at all without a TV?