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My son-in-law recently lost his right(dominant) eye to cancer. He is also right handed.
Today was the first time we have been able to get in some range time since the surgery.
Prior to losing the eye he was a decent shot.
Today he was shooting his Glock 17 Gen 5. He was consistently pulling left, couldn't hit a half size IPSC steel plate silhouette at 10yds I'm not much of a shooting coach but I watched what he was doing and suggest a few of the "hitting left" remedies without success.
He also shot my commander size 1911 in 9mm with pretty much identical results. Switching to shooting left handed is an option but not tried today.
I finally stepped to the line and shut my right eye tight and tried a couple of things. Best result was tilting my head and putting my chin on my shoulder/bicep which lined up the left eye back over the shooting hand. I had him try that and he was back to ringing steel like a big boy. One of the better smiles I've seen on his face since the surgery.
In the near future we will walk back down to my range and take my Ruger MKIII .22 rf and work on it some more including shooting left handed.
Has anyone experienced a similar situation that might have some suggestions?
Today was the first time we have been able to get in some range time since the surgery.
Prior to losing the eye he was a decent shot.
Today he was shooting his Glock 17 Gen 5. He was consistently pulling left, couldn't hit a half size IPSC steel plate silhouette at 10yds I'm not much of a shooting coach but I watched what he was doing and suggest a few of the "hitting left" remedies without success.
He also shot my commander size 1911 in 9mm with pretty much identical results. Switching to shooting left handed is an option but not tried today.
I finally stepped to the line and shut my right eye tight and tried a couple of things. Best result was tilting my head and putting my chin on my shoulder/bicep which lined up the left eye back over the shooting hand. I had him try that and he was back to ringing steel like a big boy. One of the better smiles I've seen on his face since the surgery.
In the near future we will walk back down to my range and take my Ruger MKIII .22 rf and work on it some more including shooting left handed.
Has anyone experienced a similar situation that might have some suggestions?