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im right handed but left eye dominant so shoot off left with no problems

greenshoots

I am Left-handed, but right eye dominant so shoot right-handed when using a rifle, but shoot left handed with a pistol

Left hand - OK - Rules the world

I shoot pistols right handed and rifles left.

I was a natural left hander but we weren't allowed to be so at school, right handed only.

I was shooting long arms from an early age so it came up naturally to my left shoulder. I started pistol shooting in my early twenties which by that time I had been forced into being right handed.

Eye dominance is irrelevant for me as keep my eyes closed when shooting, nasty, noisy, fiery dangerous things guns.

I shoot left handed.
I had to shoot the SA80 right handed and have often shot 'weak-shoulder' in PR and a few other disciplines.
But mainly I haven't compromised and now have a selection of left-handed rifles after many years of shooting right-handed rifles left hand (or AR types which generally lend themselves to left-handed shooting very nicely).

All sounds a bit sinister to me

I see what you did there.

I write with my left hand, but can be ambidextrous in most things I do, cricket, pool/snooker and have no issue wielding a hammer in either hand (with the same disastrous results from both. I can even shoot pistols with either hand to the same level (though always preferred right).

Rifle shooting however, I have to shoot right handed, practically blind in my left eye.

I'd give myright hnd to be ambidestrous.

Can shoot either side with rifles, not so good weak hand on pistols but can do not too badly.-The missus is right handed and left eye dominant, she turns her head across the sights and does just fine, as 25pdr can testify!

I usually confuse people who see my left handed rifles and think I'm left handed. I have to explain I'm right handed but have impaired vision in my right eye. But I shoot pistols right handed.

I am a lefty and just left eye dominant and I shoot both ways dependant upon what I'm about; shotguns always LH, pistols also and I have a true LH CZ .22 bolt gun...but...I have a particular fondness for classic military rifles which are normally set up for the majority RH, so those I shoot from the right, (and I'm just as bad from that side...).

Even though I wasn't compelled in any way to conform with my peers from a young age, the world is largely set up for the right handed majority, so I have ended up, like many others, as some sort of curious almalgam of handedness - and I actually remember the point in life, (14), when I made the conscious decision to stop fighting against being a lefty and embrace it as far as I could, hasn't worked all ways; I write and kick a ball with my left but hand me a cricket bat/golf club/snooker cue and I will do that right-handed.

I suppose I'm just ruined all ways now