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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: Lee Lobbestael on October 30, 2011, 04:14:00 PM
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I may have a new problem here folks. Has any one here ever had their nose block their dominate eye from seeing the target? I anchor with my index finger behind my eye tooth and the angle my head is at puts my nose almost in the way of my dominant eye. its kinda annoying. anyone ever experience this? may have to switch anchors
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Lee, A picture would help. The only way I can get my nose in the way of my dominate eye vision is to pull my head back toward my drawing shoulder. That makes it harder for me to turn my head toward the target as far, so the nose is in the line of my sight. It is fairly common for folks to let their head move back toward the drawing shoulder during the draw rather than letting it stay a little forward over the belt buckle and directly in line with their spine. Just a thought.
PS. Bring the anchor to you, do not "go to meet it."
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Try leaning your head to the angle of the string instead of turning your head to the string..
Turning the head make you look over the nose.. leaning the head to mimic the string angle will produce much better results.
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Turn head to left and modify your anchor.
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Probably a lot of people are experiencing what you are without realizing it. I had cataract surgery several years ago, and since they don't want to do both eyes at the same time, you go through a period of time where you wear your glasses with one lens in and one lens out. Makes it interesting to shoot, to say the least. It's really obvious when your dominant eye becomes blocked by your nose.
What's not so obvious is that when both eyes are functioning normally, if your dominant eye becomes blocked, your other eye takes over, which can cause you to miss the target and you don't know why.
The answer is to rotate your head enough toward the target that your nose doesn't block your dominant eye from seeing the target. That's the only answer (sorry Terry for the absolute, but it is). If you can't rotate your head that much, then you have to stand more open to the target so you can. Maybe it's not ideal to stand open to the target, but it's essential that you see the target with your dominant eye.
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I'm a right handed shooter, but left eye dominant with glasses. I found that an anchor point farther back made me rotate my head so that it is perpendicular to the target. It got everything out of the way, helped with depth perception, and the string doesn't touch my glasses. I felt like it opened up a much better sight window.