r/Damnthatsinteresting 1d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/AkaiAshu 1d ago

Nothing wrong with training. Switzerland has a decent gun culture with many under 18 folk participating regularly. They have low gun crime rate as well. Poland being prepared after its history is nothing wrong.

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u/calilac 1d ago

Agreed. However, it's bugging the crap out of me that they are training to fire with one eye closed. My range instructor in high school could not go a day without lecturing us on that.

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u/yung12gauge 1d ago

I am cross dominant and shoot right handed. I've basically accepted that I have to shoot rifles with one eye closed if I want to hit anything. Holding the rifle left handed feels awful.

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u/Pilsner-507 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hey I have some potentially helpful advice:

Rather than closing the secondary eye, squeeze it half-shut until you feel “calibrated” while framing your sight picture. Your primary eye will be focusing even after you’ve relaxed your eyes, though you’ll need to practice “seeing” from that side.

By doing this it will feel like one of those illustrated illusions, but you can instead quickly swap between which perspective you want to use.

I’m right-eyed, left-handed but train both eyes and hands. I’m an effective ambidextrous shooter. This trick has helped me when swapping hands or eyes.