I had no clue some people are both-eye dominant or center dominant, thats crazy! Im just happy im “Normal” dominant.

I'm left handed and shoot a rifle or shotgun left-handed/left eye dominant, but I shoot a bow right-handed/right eye dominant. I've never had any problems and it just came natural.

I was always right eye/right hand dominant until about ten years ago. At that time my optometrist changed my contact lens to "mono-vision" meaning that, in my case, my left eye is for near vision and right eye for distant. This works for some people and not for others. I can read and still see at distance very well, but for some reason now my left eye is now the dominant eye. The eye doc is not sure why this is happening. If I remove my contact lens domination reverts back to the right eye. I also have another set of contact lens that I use to make the right eye see better for near with the left for distance. This set is when I am target shooting pistols, otherwise the front sight is not focused. Yeah it would be easier just to wear glasses but they tend to fog and get broken when you are around horses or snow skiing.

This is off-topic but I'm looking for guidance from fellow Gun Nuts.

So I bought a new rifle last November that continues to have a powdery white substance appear where the barrel screws into the receiver. I've cleaned it off several times, but it keeps "migrating" out of the joint. Yesterday the manufacturing replied to me, writing that it is "bluing salts" residue and that I might have to keep cleaning it for a while, but to not worry about it.

Not satisfied with that, I called the local shop where I purchased the rifle. Turns out they've had other owners ask the same thing, and the shop has been given the same answer from the company. However, the shop owner said he's seen the same thing in several rifle manufacturers the past couple of years, and he attributed this to manufacturers cutting cost by cutting back on the bluing post-wash process. I suspect the white powdery substance is potassium nitrate, but I don't know for sure.

My question to you is this: Can this be harmful or corrosive to my rife? Should I simply keep cleaning it out and oiling it, as advised, or should I pursue a different course of action?

By the way, I also bought a Weatherby last fall, and am happy to report there is no similar problem with it. My gun shop owner said he's had none of this powdery stuff show up in his Weatherby shipments, so kudos to that company.

I'm right handed, left eye dominant. As a kid, I was taught to shoot right handed. Nobody checked my eye dominance & I didn't know any better. I just wondered why I couldn't break the habit of closing my left eye. I discovered this years ago but I didn't feel comfortable switching to shoot lefty. So I still close my left eye. I make it work.

Interesting subject ,.. have known various individules of all the dominance,.
Shoot, play base ball, or golf enough and you will.
But you can train your self ,. I played a lot of base ball as a kid (only summer thing i could afford to do,.

Naturallay shoot right and am right handed ,. but also display some abidextrous simptoms
So when golfing and or swinging a bat it was south paw .
More power and better control.
Right eye dominant,.. learned to close right eye,. until I learned to have left eye control when doing lefty stuff,. and right when doing right handed stuff,.
Yup the mind is an amazing thing .
Even got so that in a pinch could shoot left too,. but,.never really liked it

Good one Mr Bourjailey

I am a righty but shoot southpaw because my left eye is dominant. I started about 6 years ago and find myself doing a lot of things lefty. I prefer it in many ways, However , like crm3006 I still hold righty for pistols.

Stacy --
VB is my dad. He'll turn 87 next month. I remember meeting Mark Helprin a few times when he was at Iowa.

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Last I checked, Remington was still making the 870 in LH models. Also check the Guns America website for LH 1100s, the Model 37 Ithaca, and Brownells offers a left hand conversion safety for the Auto 5, which does not kick hulls into a left hand shooter's face. Hope some of this will help in your shooting endeavors.
crm

well, i am right eyed dominate. and right handed. but my umcle Herb, was right handed, left eye dominate. he found it out the hard way when he shot my fathers 300 H&H magnum model 70 for the first time (which is a heck of a gun to shoot for the first gun you ever shot!) Herb was the youngest of my dads family, and my dad, was the oldest. there was 18 years between them. he about broke his nose on that deal. after someone figured out what had happened, he learned to shoot left handed. and turned out to be the best and most avid hunter in our family.

I was explaining this test to my Dad one day, and we determined that he is cross dominant. Although he rarely shoots, he said it made a huge difference in his golf game, especially putting. I am right handed and right eye dominant, but as a photographer I can only shoot pictures using my left eye. Go figure.

I have a daughter who appears to be left eye dominant and right handed. She keeps trying to use her left eye shooting right handed. Might have to work on teaching her to shoot left handed. She fights me though. Maybe it will work itself out. Not a big push as of yet, she is 4 but does want a pink rifle already. Don't know if that is because of her older brother or that she really wants to shoot.

Vic

I tried the test which at first had me confused as to how to position my hands, so I tried it with two pencils of the same length. I found they wound up on my nose, so I guess I am center dominant. While I can shoot a pistol with either left hand or right hand, I find I cannot shoot a rifle left handed nor a shotgun, unless it is a short barrel, pistol grip pump which I usually shoot from the hip or lower chest level. Going back to the pistol shooting, I found I can engage two targets accurately while shooting two pistols of the same size/type- in this case the Beretta 92F. If I deviate from size/weight/caliber with either hand, my right hand is dominant

I have always shot rifles/shotguns left-handed. I can shoot pistols with either hand and use the left eye. I throw right handed though.

Proverbs,
IF it is leftover from bluing then I'd worry, they use what are called corrosive salts, and anything called corrosive left in a critical area such as the barrel to receiver connection sounds like a bad thing to me.

Biggest question is exactly WHAT it is, if it's some kind of assembly lube or anti-seize compound then all would be fine. What worries me is that they aren't telling exactly what it is.

And only way to remove it completely would be to unscrew the barrel, clean thoroughly and re-assemble.
Which is not a fun job at best, and could mar the receiver or barrel or both at worst. Also alot of work for possibly nothing if it's truly nothing to worry about.

I'd start hounding the manufacturer about what it is myself, until I was satisfied it was safe. If you have doubts you could always return or sell the gun and buy from another mfg. who doesn't cut corners and then BS about what is wrong with their product.

I am cross dominant, right handed. Shoot right handed. After a while it starts to hurt, so I use a patch or tape over my glasses.

A nephew is too, but can´t close his left eye, so he started shooting lefty, and he is doing just fine with airguns.
A cousin has the same trouble, he needs to use his finger to close his left eye, and then it gets locked until he shoots.

Normal dominant. Yawn, I'm so boring! :-)

I guess I am fortunant enough that I am "normal" being right handed and right eye dominant. I have a buddy who is right handed but left eye dominant and has learned to shoot both ways... a benefit that might come in handy in some hunting situations.