Need Advice: Son's right handed & left eye dominant

Been there done that with myself and my son.
Go lefty now and he will happier later.
I still shoot compound bows righty but shoot recurves lefty.
I have always shot guns left handed as that was how I started although my dad made a weak effort to make me shoot right handed.... Thankfully he let me just go with what felt right to me.
I am left eye dominate but in my son's case he WAS right eye but damaged his eye and his brain eventually retrained him to left eye dominate so he switched to left handed shooting and while he is slower he shoots very well.
 
Most of our family is backwards. Both ways right hand left eye and left hand right eye. Teach him to shoot left handed. The hold will seem unnatural for a little but kids learn to compensate really quickly.
 
Most of our family is backwards. Both ways right hand left eye and left hand right eye. Teach him to shoot left handed. The hold will seem unnatural for a little but kids learn to compensate really quickly.
 
"100% right. and it makes perfect sense that he can close his right eye and not his left. The left is dominant so that is the eye his brain wants to keep open to get the most sensory input."

100% wrong. The ability to wink with either or only one eye, or to close only one eye; is in our genetic make up. It is actually a gene. We have no control over this ability.

I had the same dilemma with my son. Left handed, right eyed. He shoots right handed and does well.
 
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Originally Posted By: DiRTY DOGI'm right handed, left eye dominant. I learned to shoot righty at age 12, first on iron sight rifle, later on pistol, even later on a scope. I have no problem shooting with the "wrong" eye and I shoot better than most.

Same here. Rt handed but was left eye dominant when I started. Dad just kept telling me,"Wrong eye" when I would shoot. Been shooting rt hand rt eye for years now with no problem.
 
Thank you, you guys all made me feel a lot more normal. I too am left eye dominant and right handed. Shoot my bow and pistol with right hand but rifles and shotguns with left hand or left eye anyway. I didn't learn I was left eye dominant until I was about 10 or so because I grew up shooting traditional archery and apparently my dad never watched close enough. My great uncle finally caught up to it when I was using a scoped rifle for the first time and had my whole head over the gun trying to see through the scope.

So yes, learning younger will definitely help him in the long run but I shoot great and didn't learn to shoot correctly until 10!
 
he is young enough to learn to shoot lefty, both eyes open.let him hold the gun both ways and see what he does.he might be able to shoot both ways as he grows.
 
He is young enough to get past this. A few years back I decided to train myself to shoot lefty with my left eye. Both shotgun and rifle. It took a lot of getting used to but now I am quite confident. Its going to take him a few thousand rounds to get his confidence up anyway as a young shooter. Just get him shooting on the side of his dominant eye
 
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