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SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

When you study a coin under a loupe, do you use your left or right eye?

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right.

  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2018 1:45PM

    If I've been looking throigh a loupe alot that day I sometimes switch back and forth but normally my right

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right.

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right.

  • NVUNVU Posts: 284 ✭✭✭

    I am Leftie so Left is my dominant eye in nature

  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One of the "breakthroughs" in left eye right eye dominant versus being left handed right handed is the use of electronic "scoring" using a real M16 / M4 converted to electronics. "Back in the day" a miss was a miss on the rifle range, and there were a lot of real "bad" shooters that no matter what they did could not hit the broad side of the barn.

    Well, with the electronics, we can "see" what the sights "see" and the "bullet" strike and there are people who are shooting left handed (or right) using the wrong "eye" and that just throws everything off. They are not even aware of what they are doing. On video, you can see them, for example, shooting left with the left eye, but the "focus" is out of the right eye.

    It takes work, but they can be retrained to shoot off their non dominant eye or possibly change from shooting right to shooting left handed, for example.

  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2018 2:54PM

    Left. I am left eye dominant, but right handed. Something I learned from shooting handguns.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,681 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right, but I could do it with either eye.

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  • Peace_dollar88Peace_dollar88 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIGHT

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right - my dominant eye. But it seems to me that my left eye would be just as good.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mustangmanbob said:
    One of the "breakthroughs" in left eye right eye dominant versus being left handed right handed is the use of electronic "scoring" using a real M16 / M4 converted to electronics. "Back in the day" a miss was a miss on the rifle range, and there were a lot of real "bad" shooters that no matter what they did could not hit the broad side of the barn.

    Well, with the electronics, we can "see" what the sights "see" and the "bullet" strike and there are people who are shooting left handed (or right) using the wrong "eye" and that just throws everything off. They are not even aware of what they are doing. On video, you can see them, for example, shooting left with the left eye, but the "focus" is out of the right eye.

    It takes work, but they can be retrained to shoot off their non dominant eye or possibly change from shooting right to shooting left handed, for example.

    I am left eyed, but right handed. I taught myself early to shoot a long gun left handed. Works for me. I shoot pool left handed too.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If there's any doubt, put a camera to your face. It will automatically go to your dominant eye.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With a magnifier - right eye but things are brighter in the left. I find both eyes with a stereo microscope is much more efficient - LOL.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    With both eyes open put your index finger out in front of your eyes and aim at a distant point. Close each eye separately. Which ever open eye does not cause the finger to move is the dominant eye. Peace Roy

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  • cecropiamothcecropiamoth Posts: 969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm cross-eye dominant. I cannot see through the scope of a hunting rifle shooting right-handed. I have to shoot left-handed. If I place a playing card between my left eye and my glasses I can see through the scope shooting right handed. I always felt being left-eye dominant and a right handed hitter made me a good hitter. Lead eye is out front. Darts is a different story. To play at a very high level, I've had to make adjustments. But they can be made...Phil Taylor, the greatest player of all-time was cross-eye dominant.

    Jeff

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Left, but before this post I never gave it a thought.

  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MikeInFL said:
    Left. I am left eye dominant, but right handed. Something I learned from shooting handguns.

    Ditto! Except for the guns.


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  • AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2018 9:40PM

  • RockyMtnProspectorRockyMtnProspector Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right.

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  • AstroJoeAstroJoe Posts: 309 ✭✭✭

    Left eye, and I am right hand dominate.

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 22, 2018 10:53PM

    Okay I learned this in training with the feds. Point at something close one eye at a time and witch ever one is on target that is your dominate eye.



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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am right eye dominant... However, about three years ago, I had an eye operation (Dr. goes into the eye and cleans off the retina) and since then I have had a retinal aberration (caused by the residue that was removed) which causes a slight central distortion in the viewing field. Asked the Opthamologist what I would need to do to become left eye dominant... he said two years of specialized exercises....so, I taught myself a different sighting system. Cheers, RickO

  • CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 23, 2018 5:57AM

    My shooting eye(s). Right for rifles, both eyes for handguns, unless I'm shooting a target pistol with good sights then I'll use the right.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭

    lefty, we use our right mind ( whats left of it any way ) just saying

  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I never gave this any thought before now, but I must be weird. I am right eye for distance (for shooting), but I use my left eye for viewing coins close up.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right eye for me. Was almost hesitant to say the words right or left given the political climate here. :)

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