eye patch

[Sunshine]

been outside and Alan has been helping me practice. Actually now that I am at home in my own back yard and not surrounded by a bunch of city HE MEN I am doing much better pulling my bow back, I think I was just nervous and self conscious. I have another problem instead, I can close my right eye by itself, but not my left! Too many years of winking at Alan with my right eye I guess .... Anybody have recommendations for an eye patch?

[Heath]

Go to Wal-Mart and they have eye patches in the pharmacy area. That is where I buy mine.

[Live2Hunt]

Garrrrrrrrrrr Lassie you be shootin good now...




Sorry couldn't resist

Must have had two cups of coffee this morning!

[Bill]

If you can shoot with sunglasses or rifle shooting glasses on, cover the middle of the lens of the eye you want to block with some frosty-colored scotch tape, and it will do the same thing. You only need to block the middle of the field of view (size of a nickle for example) directly in the location to block your vision when you aim, to have your brain transfer the dominant eye to the other one, and you still have peripheral vision.

Chap stick also works if you ever need to do it quickly. I have a pair of yellow shooting glasses that I did that to for duck hunting since I'm right handed, left eye dominant, and too uncoordinated to consider learning to shoot with the 'wrong' hand.

[Sunshine]

thank ya'll for the ideas! I am right handed with left eye dominance as well..was reading up on that yesterday. I will try both these and see what works best for me

[Live2Hunt]

I am backward on the eye dominance and decided to teach myself to shoot right handed. After twenty years I switched hands and in 3 weeks could not even remember how to shoot left handed. Just give it a try you might be surprised.

[bboswell]

If you are just starting then start shooting the way your body wants you to which is left handed if you are left eye dom.

[tx_poptart]

I am right handed with left eye dominance

My wife Crysal is in the same boat, at this point the "Best" thing to do is learn to shoot left handed....

Now with that being said...Crystal still shoots right handed, and she shoots with an eyepatch....Within her yardage (35+/- yards) I would put her up against dang near any archer and she would hold her own....prob even put a whoppin' on em'...I am very proud of her...

Pick up some eyepatches at the drug store, walmart, etc....they're cheap, keep one in your bowcase, hunting bag, the car/truck...

Note: you can do some crazy things to an eyepatch with a be-dazzler......

[Bill]

If you can close the dominant eye when you look at your pins, the left/right thing does not matter any more. Try the scotch tape thing, it really works. Just figure out where your dominant eye is "aiming" when the bow is at full draw, it probably the corner/ edge of the lens not the center.