Saw this on another forum, wondering what the good folks at PF think of this.
https://gunsmagazine.com/discover/wh...-c-a-r-system/
Saw this on another forum, wondering what the good folks at PF think of this.
https://gunsmagazine.com/discover/wh...-c-a-r-system/
It's like Jaws XVII.
I had an ER nurse in a class. I noticed she kept taking all head shots. Her response when asked why, "'I've seen too many people who have been shot in the chest putting up a fight in the ER." Point taken.
What does “works for me” mean? Measured by what objective standards?
“Reasonably accurate at contact distances” doesn’t seem like a strong argument.
In the photo, Right hand shooter. Left eye dominant. I suggest fixing that first.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master"
Not again. How am I going to go to the range today after I had to gouge my eyes out.
Problems with CAR aside, the eye dominance issue does not need to be "fixed.". I'm a "cross dominant" shooter, and can tell you from extensive experience people make way too big an issue of this. Its people who are NOT cross dominant shooters, or were infected by instruction by people who are not cross dominant, who try to turn this into an issue when its not.
When is the last time you heard an instructor mention eye dominance when teaching someone who is NOT cross dominant to shoot with their "weak" hand? When is the last time you heard an instructor tell a cross.dominant shooter they had an advantage over other shooters when shooting weak hand?
Rhetorical question, as we all know the answer is never. Because with pistols you just put the gun in front of the dominant eye, and get to work, no matter which hand the gun is being held. So, if it's not a problem when a non cross-dominant shoots weak hand, then it's not a problem for a cross dominant shooter shooting strong hand. QED.
Long guns are a bit different due to your cheek "weld" on the gun. For me the best solution was to shoot weak hand, and keep both eyes open. However, the only long guns I shoot are AR style rifles, and after putting on an ambidextrous safety an AR is very easy to operate with either hand.
People who are not cross dominant need to stop telling people it's a handicap that needs to be fixed.
One of my motivations for.becoming a firearms instructor at work was to stop the BS being spread about eye dominance.
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"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me." - Isaiah 6:8
So when I start a new Shooter, I always check for the dominant eye first. You are correct in that it makes less of a difference for pistol shooting. But for rifle shooting it is important and for shotgun shooting it is absolutely critical.
When transitioning people from the disciplines of pistol to shotgun to rifle shooting, I find it easier when I don’t have to transition them from right-handed in one discipline to left-handed in the other.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master"
Source: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...210#post399210Originally Posted by ToddG