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- What Eye for Shotgun Shooting? Get Your Eyes 👀 Right | How to Shoot a Shotgun: Are you cross-dominant? Do you want to hit more targets? If you want to get your shotgun eye game back on target, you're in the right place! We're talking about proper mount, where to focus, and how to train your eyes to shoot better. 🎟 𝙏𝙁𝙇 𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙎 (𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙮 12𝙩𝙝/13𝙩𝙝)
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0:00 Intro
2:05 What is your dominant eye?
6:50 Proper mount
12:15 How to get Target Focused
13:44 ALWAYS keep both eyes open
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I’m a single lady who decided at age 36 this year I needed to finally learn about shooting & get a shotgun. Thank you. Going to try to go to the range tomorrow morning & do these drills, yep by myself! Your videos are so helpful & gave me confidence. I can do this.
Meeee too! I’m so grateful for the knowledge that’s out here. Glad I stopped saying I wanna learn and now I am. Being intentional with your life and what you learn 👏🏽
Best shotgun channel on CZcams!
By far!!
Wow, thank you! You are so kind.
What l have done to my shotgun to align my eyes down the gun barrel is to dip out the gunstock I throw my head over the gun stock
Agreed!
Impressive video I am 46 years old. I’ve been hunting and shooting since I was six. I am not ashamed to say this video has enlighten me on a lot of techniques. Great instructions
I am a right handed shooter, left eye dominant. When I mount the gun I see two sight pictures down the barrel. I know the left sight picture is the correct one so thats what I focus on and it lets me shoot birds without any problems with both eyes open.
A tip is to wear glasses with a red dot on your left eye(or whatever eye is not the same as your gun-shooting hand). I had to wear one for a while because I was really struggling with double vision (I am only slightly left-eye dominant, and I shoot left-handed just because it is more comfortable, shooting the right side is weird for me, even using Nerf guns I shot left-handed before even knowing that was a thing). I eventually got over it but a simple piece of red tape or even red sharpe on normal tape or red sharpe directly on cheap glasses is what I did before my coach gave me a red dot to put on my glasses. Usually after shooting you will get over it, but if you don't a red dot helps a lot and doesn't obscure vision at all, my brain just ignored the red.
@@justinprice7484what is the significance of this exactly? For example, while hunting what would this accomplish? I guess I am not 100% sure!
Me too. I just slightly squint my left eye but still keep it open. That makes my brain focus on the right eye because it has a complete picture but I can still see birds from my left eye. Just not as clear as if my left eye were open completely or especially if I were right eye dominant.
Great advice! Just took up trap shooting, trying to learn all I can to get better! Thanks!
Fantastic summary!
This video should be obligate for new shooters before buying a shotgun or even shoot one.
And even for advanced shooters it brings benefits.
Great job, well done.
16 mins of PURE GOLD!!!! Thank you! Im right handed with my left eye being the dominant one.....
Same
i wonder how rare that is vice versa
do yall practice doing it the right way?
I’m RH RED luckily but i do try some of his whacky trick shots only thing i cant hit is the behind the back
I have been considering getting a shotgun and have tried shooting the same without much success. Your vid has explained the why! I think now that I'm armed with such good info I can begin to learn the process. Your thoughts on how it differs from rifle shooting makes perfect sense! Thanks for your most excellent teaching!
Steve, thanks from across the pond in the UK. A great video that explains eye dominance better than nearly all the other vids I've seen up to now & well presented. Many thanks.
Great information for my situation. A little over a year and a half ago I suffered an ocular stroke in my right eye. I am naturally right handed and was right eye dominant. During the time since I have converted to left hand shooting and predominantly shoot over and under shotguns. My trap scores are improving but I picked up several tips in your video that I think will help. I usually shoot a Beretta Silver Pigeon or my Browning Cynergy Classic. I believe I need to practice my mount by going first to my face and then the shoulder. It is coming along, but 70+ years of bad habits are hard to break. Starting over on the left side I have an opportunity to begin anew by developing good habits. Thanks, I really enjoyed your video!!!
Wonderful explanation about dominant eye and reasons for keeping both eyes open on shooting.
Congrats!
This was excellent!! I gained so many tips from this one video, Steve. Thanks!
This video is fantastic!! I cant thank you enough for it. I started getting some bad habits out bird hunting to the point my shot was completely gone. Re watched this video a few times to get back to the basics and this last weekend I dropped way more than I have in the last few seasons. Felt the love for the hunt again. Crazy how a few simple adjustments can cause you to either hit or miss. I even passed some of the tips to my dad whose been hunting his entire life and even he was saying wow I've never thought of those things before. Brilliant video is an understatement.
Steve - You're a training phenom! Explain and example well. Nice work.
Thank you I have been looking for this type of knowledge Tore up my right shoulder after shooting right handed left eye dominant for 45 years the past 7 have been an awkward learning experience. 1 st thing I had to stop was the habit of closing my left eye before the shot. Still have to concentrate on that or it will happen sometimes (mostly shooting clays). Again thank you
Brilliant Steve! Love your work, especially the importance of keeping both eyes open to utilise our binocular vision. Catching a ball is another example I’ve used to emphasise that shooting / leading a moving target should be more of an instinct rather than a calculation.
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I would not want to catch a football or baseball with one eye closed...so hard to react correctly. I scratched my cornea in a football game in high school and that made it extremely tough. I had over 100 yards receiving and 2 touchdowns but I also dropped a couple very catchable balls.
One of your best education videos to date, good stuff Sir!
WOW. The baseball and basketball analogies were spot on. While watching your video I kept swinging my straight arm and stopping on objects in the room. So simple, now just need to learn to do it with a shotgun. I'm still aiming right before trigger pull.
Greetings from Greece
This is the best tutorial video i've ever watched on you tube about shooting a shotgun.
All the basics in 16 minutes.
Everybody should watch this video.
Congratulations you are the best
Much more to come. I appreciate the kind words my friend 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
THANKS! That scotch tape trick has worked fantastic for me (Left eye dominant, right hand shooter too stubborn to switch sides)
Awesome! Glad it helped you.
Thanks.This video helped, turner’s out I am crosseyed dominant. And I can now move forward with this in mind and hopefully become a better shooter.
Right hand, left eye dominate with bum left shoulder. Always an issue. Mostly just use the tape on glasses. Helps a great deal. Place it just outside pupil and when mount gun, right eye takes over. Thanks for great video.
Good stuff. I have recently got into sporting clays and will use this advice.
Thanks Steve! Great video. You make everything straightfoward so that even I can understand! I can't wait to get out there and blast some clays!
This video was awesome!! If I would have watched this before I took up the sport 5 years ago, I would have gotten better a lot quicker than what I did.
Great job, and now I have a lot of work (Practise) to do! Im classified as a high master at 600 yards but now I need to readjust to shotgun shooting! Thanks
Well you taught me a few things that I will put into practice. I started hunting late in life, unfortunately no one really showed how to shoot a shotgun. Your videos are a huge help. Can’t wait to try your tips out. Thanks
Well that was just great ! Well done. I will apply these tips out on the range for sure.
Thanks so much for this video. I think you saved me a lot of time here. I’m right handed and left eye dominant.
Definitely cross dominate and really never thought of it before as an issue.. shoot right but left eye dominate.. just started mounting left handed and shooting and wow what a difference! Amazing now when I point at something I shoot it lol
Great stuff. Very well explained. Thanks.
Very enjoyable video! I always enjoy the wisdom you share. I have had some mysterious misses and struggles shooting both eyes open. I come up right eye dominant with the finger test, but the other test doesn’t even make sense to my eyes. I have noticed my dominance switches back and forth depending on distance! Per my shooting instructor I started shooting with scotch tape over my left lenses and shooting right handed. I went from shooting 7 out of 25 to consistently hitting 20-25 out of 25 very quickly. The tape method really truly works, and because my eyes switch dominance it makes more sense than switching sides. It’s a very simple but affective way to improve.
Love it. Thanks for sharing! Glad you are finding success. 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
just watch this , this makes so much sense to me , gosh i needed this Thank you so much love your reviews by the way
Great video! How about a quick tutorial on how to lead targets/game. I struggle with longer shots moving left or right, I can’t seem to figure out the lead on them and can’t tell if I’m behind or in front. I’m guessing behind and not using enough of a lead
You are the man! Mount to your face and then shoulder! Thank you!
I am left handed and right eye dominant. I switched from shooting left to right and in September at my ATA shoot shot a 97 with my first ever 75 in a row. I have shot right handed for 2 years now.
Excellent! As a right hand, right eye dominant shooter, I found that for extremely close targets (
Great video, learned some new reinforced what I thought I knew
Steve, excellent 👌 I got a lot out of this tutorial.
Super informative. Been dealing with eye dominance forever. I use a dark eye protection lense on my left eye with a yellow or orange on my right to help compensate. I've seen signifiant improvement with thay system without the tape or dot solution (although I did have to buy more expensive eye protection - I believe it Walker Eye Pro). The mount to cheek/eye before shoulder is super helpful. I'll be working on that before this bird season starts.
Thank you!!! More like this please along with your regular content!!! I look forward to all your videos!! How about different methods of swinging the gun, swing through, pull away, maintained lead , and when to use
Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely be making more videos like this and will include lead techniques. 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
this was really excellent, i learned a lot, Thank you!
Thanks for the tips. Liked your shooting at Rice Creek too!
Took your advice to dry shoulder at home and follow the roof line. Seems like it’s helping me already. Always had trouble keeping both eyes open just out of habit. Thanks Steve.
Thanks for watching and putting it into practice. Keep up the good work my friend 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
This helped a lot! Now I know im left eye dominant and gotta start shooting w my left. Thanks!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH...VERY CLEAR WAY TO TEACH THIS BEAUTIFUL SHOOTING SPORT. I USED TO SHOOT RIFLES MANY YEARS AGO AND NOW I'M NEW TO CLAY SHOOTING TARGETS. I HAVE CROSS DOMINANT EYE.
Best video yet really helpful.
Thank you very much for the video. It is very informative.
Awesome video! Best shotgun channel on CZcams!
Great video!👍
I love your channel! Sporting clays is one of my favorite hobbies.
Can’t wait to see a review on that O/U
Hi Steve. Great video. I fully understand your point of eye dominance. I shoot right handed and am right eye dominant. With that said, when shooting trap I consistantly miss medium and hard right targets. This is not the case for the other stations. It seems to me that missing those station 5 targets is due to left eye cross over or interference resutling is shooting behind the target. If, on the other hand, I wink my left eye just prior to pulling the trigger for station 5, I'm able to confirm target alignment and make the shot. Note that I do not aim the barrel but rather have eye focal point different from gun hold point. I hope you can provide your insight. Thanks !
This was a tremendous amount help. My son is getting into trap shooting. This helped him a lot.
Brilliant! More of this. Thank you!!!!!!
Thank you!!
Amazing video! I have been hunting for more years than I want to say but I learned from this! I plan on using these tips to help my boys!
Tradition is priceless my friend :) happy to hear that!
Great video Steve I'm going to try the tip about bringing the gun to the cheek first and then the shoulder
Thank you Steve Great Helpful Information. Best Channel EVER …
Good video great information. Ty
Your Video on the how to mount the shotgun to the face first and not to the shoulder first is the best explanation on the correct way to to get the shot gun over the correct position. I an heading out the the range today and I am going to use that technique. Thank You. Just as a suggestion I having a problem in knowing where to focus the on the target. I will let you know how I do on the range when I get back home. Again you are the only one who explained how to mount the shot gun and how to get the correct position with the gun mounted. I feel that I can improve my shooting with both eyes open I have only been using one eye for YEARS Again thank you.
Great video. I hunt for six years and in the beginning I've been practicing with three diffrent instructors on a shooting range. None of them checked wich eye is dominant, none of them told me to keep both eyes opened. After writing this comment I take my shotgun and practice at home.
Greetings from Poland!
The best shotgun video with tons of useful info that I've ever watched
thanks, good lesson.
So helpful!
Steve thank you for all your great videos ..i was wondering if you have any sugestions for a trap shooter like me who only has one eye the best i ever shot was 23 and just cant get over that hump and shoot 24 or even a 25...i lost my dominant eye and had to switch lefty ..thank you..
great info-thanks
Best shootng education and advive ever for a person like me. You helped me more than you can imagine! I am RH'd and left eye dominant. In addition my eyes do not play well together (no stereoopsys). I very seldom, almost never comment. In your case I have to say, God Bless and Thank You!.
Very Good video. Thank you🤝
I need all the help I can get. Thank you!
I shot RH for 55 years being left eye dominate. (Closed the left eye just before the shot) I shot very well. Then decided to switch to LH, many shots later and lots of mounting practice later I shoot left just fine. Odd thing is I can shoot RH both eyes open just fine now.
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Thank you Steve! Such a helpful video. Being what they call a “late onset hunter” it’s been hard finding folks willing to put in the time to teach a new hunter. I’ve found your videos so helpful for being a new hunter and trying to learn as much as I can on my own time. Thank you for all your knowledge on teaching a new shooter and new hunter!
Thank you for tuning in my friend! What sort of hunts are you looking to get in to?
@@TargetFocusedLife thanks for the reply! I’m trying to learn as much as I can before the start of turkey season to hopefully do some turkey hunting. Went duck hunting a couple times before the season closed. End goal I would love to get into big game like deer and elk.
Hi Steve, love all your videos. What drills would you suggest to practice at home?
Hi I am in England I have been shooting for well over 50 years and I am right handed, around 6 years ago I started to have problems and I am now very left eye dominant and have tried every possible method to help, red dot etc a Rail on the front site plus everything on the market but nothing has worked as my left eye is so dominant, I am going to try to train myself to shoot left hand so hopefully in time I will be back to a double A shooter, thanks for all your fantastic videos keep it up Bro 😎
Thanks great video
Great video! Thanks!!
I love recoil and I’m a lefty for rifles and shotguns but a righty for handguns but I’m left eye dominant.
Another great video!
What brand and model is that OU you were shooting. She’s a beauty. Love OU’s.
great works
I agree. Best shotgun channel!!
Wow, thanks! 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
I’ve been hoping for a how to shoot video, thank you! I’m left eye dominate, right hand dominate. I’m going to make the switch and pick up the new left handed SX4 then hit the range all off season. Thanks again, God bless!
Sounds like a great plan. Let me know how it goes for you 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
I'm the same and shoot with my left eye closed even though I know I shouldnt.
Im so used to it now that it'll be a struggle to relearn 😅
I have been away from this sport for 22 years and recently spent the day shooting sporting clays with a friend using his spare 12 g "home defense shotgun" as my firearm. He used his semi auto Benelli shotgun and, obviously, out shot me. I used to own a beautiful Browning Citori in 16 gauge that I used to compete with and have since sold it. One of the things I realized is that, as a life long rifle shooter, I had become sight focused and this caused me to miss some of the clays that came from the outer areas at obtuse angles. I just purchased a new Mossberg 940 JM Pro and will pick it up this week. I am looking forward to applying these training techniques to "remember" the competitive clay shooter I used to be. Thank you for this and your other series. I have enjoyed your gun comparisons and actually purchased my 940 JM Pro from Reeds as a result. They had the most competitive price and stock combo. Additionally, they were offering a special that gave me a free case of ammo with the purchase. Thank you again.
nice to know all these details, worth watching
First couple hundred rounds trying to shoot clay I was terrible hit maybe 2out of 10 set. Finally an instructor suggested try left handed first set got 10 out of 10. I shoot ambi I have several right handed guns and a few left-handed guns.
For me shooting a flying target I have to do it left handed, stationary doesn't matter as much.
Great video could you or have you made a video on how you throw your clays please
Thank you for this lesson. I have always closed one eye. Going to try this at the trap range this weekend.
Let me know how it goes 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
Thank you Steve. Another amazing video. Which over-under did you use in the video? If you can, please bring some side by side guns also. Love your videos. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the video. The O/U was a Winchester Model 101 with a FalconStrike Recoil pad on it. I like the 101 but it gets uncomfortable to shoot after a while. That is why I put the FalconStrike on it. Here's the link if you want to check them out. targetfocused.link/falconstrikepads
Love the video! I just went and shot some clays last weekend! Not gonna lie, both eyes open didn’t feel right to me because I always felt like I was look down the side of my gun no matter where I put my head. Any fix to this??
This was an excellent video!
I'm in my 50s and found out very late, in my late 20s how to check for eye dominance. I couldn't understand how I was missing so many birds and clay targets. Found out i am left eye dominate and shoot right-handed. I take a small strip of first aid tape across my shooting glasses where my vision is only obstructed when I go to shoot. Has greatly improved my shooting ratio and birds in the bag. I am more confident in my shooting and am more patient when pulling the trigger. Less missed birds
Nice tips, thanks
I just learned something new after all these years of shooting a shotgun thanks for the video very helpful!
Great video/tips Steve! I could have used this yrs ago as a reminder. It may fix/improve my mediocre shooting on my Vinci. I need to my get rt dominant eye lined up correctly over the rib and focus on the target. Will you be in the Pacific NW anytime soon?
Happy you found this video helpful. Let me know how the shooting goes. I do not have any plans in the Pacific NW in the near future. I appreciate your support. 👊 Stay Target 🎯Focused (Hebrews 12:1-3)
Will you make a video of wingshooting with a reflex/red dot? Would love to see you review the Burris Speed Bead with the Fast Fire.
I’m left handed and right eye dominant. Shot left handed my whole life until I figure out eye dominance. Once I switched hands, I was equal between hands within a couple range trips
When I was little I thought myself to close the right and not the left. I am right dominant but sometimes it’s muscle memory to use the left.
Never would have believed there was soooo much to shooting a object with a shotgun. Thanks loads!!!👍
I'm cross dominant (right handed, left eye dominant), my shooting coach in college just did the tape trick on my glasses and my shooting immediately improved, and I've just always done it that way since. I could try shooting lefty, but man it just feels so weird!!
Very clear and easy explanation. Thank you.