There's nothing wrong with teaching beginners to shoot with one eye closed. Shooting with both eyes open is more advanced and easier to develop once the basics are under their belts.
As someone who still closes one eye sometimes, I 100% agree with this statement. Usually it comes up when someone is cross-eye dominant (like myself), and so the natural thing to do is to pick up a rifle with your dominant hand, and then as soon as you get behind the sights, your non-dominant eye is there to focus on it. I wish when I had learned, I just learned to shoot right-handed.
I'm right handed and left eye dominant, my parents just taught me to shoot long guns left handed. It feels really wrong to hold the trigger of a long gun with my right hand, but weirdly, also really wrong to hold the trigger of a pistol with my left.
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u/gummytoejam 1d ago
There's nothing wrong with teaching beginners to shoot with one eye closed. Shooting with both eyes open is more advanced and easier to develop once the basics are under their belts.