one eye or two

[str8jct]

Seems like both open is favored among 'instinctive' shooters.  Guess thats why I had really been stinkin it up lately.

[Old Chief]

Both open, but wink, close the left eye for a moment, to make sure I have the proper line.

[Jim now in Kentucky]

Both open. Always was right eye dominant, and shoot right handed. For  over a year now, a cataract has been growing in my dominant eye. 20/100 in it now. You can bet I'm not going to close the other eye!

[Charlie Lamb]

With both, but one is a little more open than the other.
   

[sawtoothscream]

if it doesnt have a rifle scope then both eyes are open.  just looks all wrong shooting a bow with one eye closed

[Benny Nganabbarru]

For starters, a scoped rifle can well be shot with both eyes open for the same reasons given for shooting a bow with both eyes open.

I shoot tradbows with one eye closed, my left. I am right eye dominant, and shoot right handed. I instinctively gap-shoot. It has helped me focus, and tightened my shooting. Long before I ever tried it, I'd heard, understood, believed and repeated the conventional wisdom of keeping both eyes open. However, if there's one thing that MBB DVDs taught me, it is that many are the paths to shooting happiness! We're all different, and what works for one may not work for another. I shoot with my left eye closed only at normal bowhunting ranges. When I have to raise my arrow tip above the target for a longer shot, I open both eyes so that I can see the target, otherwise it's obscured.

[30coupe]

Originally posted by Red Beastmaster:
You need both open for depth perception.

There you go. That's why I have both open. Close one and you can't tell the distance to your target.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

The thing is, I work out the distance before I shoot. It takes me 0.25 seconds. Also, as a gap shooter who shoots three-under, the difference between a ten metre shot and a twenty metre shot isn't so much. It would affect a split-finger shooter more.

[YORNOC]

You got it Ben, when I switched to 3 under is when I started one eye focusing while competing. Groups went from coffee can to golf ball size.

[Michigan Mark]

Both eyes wide open especially when shooting game!

[LongStick64]

Both open, I don't trust one.

[longbowben]

One eye open, I guess i'm different, but it works for me.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

LongbowBen, maybe it's in our name, eh! Are we crazy, or are they?  

[longbowben]

       

[amar911]

Both open for trad bows and shotguns. One eye for sighted weapons. I am right handed and slightly left eye dominant.

Allan

[GRINCH]

I've always shot with both eyes open,just works for me.

[Thumper Dunker]

Both open for me. Do what works for you.

[Ben Maher]

I only use one eye ... coz only one of them works ! lol
Im right handed but shoot lefty as I am all but totally blind in my right eye . I get by ok.