When shooting a rifle which eye is the strong eye?

Answer 1

Your strong eye has nothing to do with what you are doing with them.

Your strong eye is the one that leads or generally sees better. In many right handed people, this is the right eye which facilitates shooting since when you hold the rifle to shoot it right handed, your right eye naturally lines up with the sight. Having the opposite eye being strong tends to complicate shooting.

Typically for a right handed shooter, the right eye is the strongest. Try a simple test to determine which eye is stronger:

1. Make a small triangle with your palms away from you.

2. Slowly pull your hands toward you.

3. When it gets to your face it will have eventually begun to commit to an eye and that is your dominant eye!

Another test to determine dominant eye:

With both eyes open hold out your thumb at arms length and cover up a distant object. Close your right eye. If the object is still covered, your left eye is dominant. If the object can now be seen, it is your right eye.

(I shot pistol for years trying to sight with my right eye. Once I realized my left eye was dominant, my scores improved by 50%!)