Background: I'm 15 weeks out from having surgery to repair a significantly detached retina in my dominant eye. While the procedure (scleral buckle) certainly saved my eyesight, it also had the effect of really messing up my vision. Prior to my detachment, I was strongly right eye dominant. During healing, and before getting an updated script, my brain just switched to left eye dominant (since I can't see the sights uncorrected with my dominant eye).
Best I can get is about 20/50 corrected, which has led to an interesting phenomenon: with glasses I had made specifically for focus/enhancement at 25.5" (distance from my dominant eyeball to the front sight of a G17 at full extension), I can see the sights well enough that my innate dominance takes over, although it's not superb. I can still get hits, and figured that was just the cost of doing business as an aging shooter. With my distance script, however, it's sort of a toss up, and herein lies the reason for the thread: with my daily wear glasses and dry fire drills, I find I can mentally phase back and forth between my innate dominance and left eye dominance, because my left is much clearer. I can do this with the finger-up-against the fixed object test as well. Trippy.
My left eye has a very mild script: I can see well enough to drive without correction, and with a mild correction, I'm a crystal clear 20/20. If I just close my dominant eye and use my left eye, all of a sudden it's like being 25 years old again: I'm at the range with a stock 3" model 65, and I'm thinking "holy shit, there's still serrations on that stainless front sight".
Choices are to either just go with my innate dominance, and make do--with the understanding that if I lose my glasses, I'll be shooting left eye regardless, or; I could bag my "shooting" script altogether, and force/train/will myself to switch eyes and become a cross-dominant shooter, with all the visual acuity and "die hard"-era Bruce Willis cool that technique offers.
Sort of a specialized post, I realize, but there's a lot of experience and smarts on this board, so I figured I might as well throw it out there for discussion.
Thanks in advance, folks.