Don't shoot one eye closed, says top shot

and [Music] if you do that you can't read distance or speed so anybody out there today that shoots or than like lows okay if kissing they're very low slow things you can get up to a point it's when they start going at different places different speeds different heights different distances you've had it you have had it millions are spent every year by people alone on shooting according to instructor an ink pen 50% of them are wasting their money why because they're being taught to close weii and that's just the start of it according to Nick eye dominance is a mere sideshow I'm afraid there's still this myth about left eye right eye dominance and the that another doesn't mean a thing Nick has five steps just shooting heaven we will hear a little bit about them today but just in case we don't believe his preaching we have a couple of his students who have seen the light and as Nick would impress the target I mean I've had people phone their wives to drive them home because mentally they're in a completely different planet and missing it from heaven is a retired firefighter who started shooting seven months ago we have Andrew who took up sport or see once again and finally we have Maddie I'm a complete novice but very willing volunteer what I'm going to help her father Carl supplies Platteville with its Berettas but is also a nick convert he wants Maddie to get into some good shooting habits and we're so focused on getting our head down on the stock and seeing the rib and all of that but it their method makes complete sense first of all God gave you lots of different bits and pieces right and one of the things he gave you was a computer but probably not that many people understand how good it is and a lot of people don't use it to its full potential so you're looking at that bird going through the sky and because you're looking at it with both eyes open you are sending a message into the computer cozy little Irishman gets this message plugs it into the computer the computer words round work that distance and speed instantly goes back to the little Irishman tells him the answer and basically if you pull the trigger when it feels good ie when he tells you you will never ever miss another code it's the only sport in the world in my opinion that hasn't been explored properly I honestly believe that I believe that every other sport has been explored goals tennis all these other sports they've gone into it with a fine-tooth comb and they've got the technique and pretty much the technique to all these sports is very much the same maybe explain slightly differently but the risks are copped at the right time the angle of the club etc etc but we're shooting no one has ever come out with a proper explanation as to how it works and this is how it was because shooting can be a frustrating sport we sometimes look for salvation in the strangest of places some may be better than others so I'm walking around with a straw down the barrel of a patch on one I didn't look really good so that's all gone about that server that has all gone in fact I don't have a barrel on my gun anymore you don't look at the barrel you don't look at the bead you don't look at the lead you look at the bird that is what and I've instilled it and it works and it's a big leap of faith to think that your eyes can tell you where the shop needs to go without using the barrel as a reference point it is very difficult and then you have to trust it and believe it how small because the other thing is there are lots of reasons that if you take a straight bird for instance which is the one that you have to open eyes up on because if you shoot with a nice shot when you come up behind the bird you blot it out before you pull the trigger so you can't see what you're shooting it and that will ring true with a lot of people they'll say well I come up behind it and once I can't see it anymore I pull the trigger so technically you're shooting in the dark of course with your eyes wide open the barrel of the gun becomes a great rants parent blur so once you pass a bird coming towards you it doesn't matter how high in front you need to go you never lose sight of the bird but every now and again the human being takes over and five where he wants to and that's when we met at my club thing is some 60 club members and out of those some of the things that I've been told you know just you wouldn't believe I mean the guy that actually got me into shooting he he's left-handed got told he was so I dominant that he had to swap over so shoots right handed now that took him over a year to to even be hitting anything I've had putting tape OB and glasses or one person put plaster late smeared Vaseline so you can still see the light coming through the glasses but already sort of dulls everything down sticky takes on your eye and it got when you get so many people telling you different things it just becomes so confusing now this is something which you would have thought in 2017 they would have worked out by now the people that teach people to shoot would have worked out by now where when somebody goes for their first lesson they normally get given a driven bird and when they get this driven bird quite often people miss to the left now why do they miss to the left the instructor says oh you've got a left master on you go on what does that mean and he says well you shoot off the right shoulder this is the strong eye and it draws you over and it makes you to miss up the left-hand side well I explained to you why you miss up the left-hand side is very very simple okay if you mount the gun in the middle of your body and swing up the gun goes dead straight and the reason it goes dead straight is because you've got half your body pulling that way how's your body pulling that way one cancels out the other and the gun goes there straight but if you shoot from there it hurts so we shoot from here or here then you okay here now then when you swing up now when you get to the up there that's a point when you start your body starts to stretch and you've got all this body pulling that way and nothing pulling that way so if I face this way as I go up look the higher I go the more I drag if I'm there shouldered the higher I go the more I drag now that's common sense didn't of you but use nobody's ever told you it okay now for the last hundred years when people shoot an overhead bird and they go off to the left is because they drag it's got nothing to do with the eyes as well as wanting to watch Maddie being put through her paces Karl has also brought along some new beretta models for Nick to try out at the school the 690 grade one is the next step up from the very popular sort of the pigeon and is being shot by Kevin Maddie has been shooting one of the Victoria ladies guns new to the faretta range for 2017 we launched the 690 grade one last year it's available in 12 20 gauge and a sporting version as well it's the latest incarnation in the 690 series it sits between the silver pigeon and just below the 690 grade 3 which the game scene with nicer woods so it bridges that gap between other days I have yet yeah shoot me well absolutely it's always the shooter that misses the Victoria has been designed by ladies for the ladies shoe tur so they're not having to work with an ill-fitting chunk of timber and metal likely to deter not inspire when you go on the road when you visit the game fair you hear so many ladies who are struggling really they don't understand why you're finding it so difficult I dominance is one thing that crops up again and again and today we've talked about that but also gun fit they are not comfortable with a stock that perhaps fits the husband or the boyfriend and there's simple reason for that their predict is slightly different the stock has been made specifically for ladies designed by ladies has a semi Monte Carlo stock as you can see has reduced radius to the grip a lot of these have a small hand and therefore this reduced radius helps them to reach the trigger comfortably the Monte Carlo just brings the stock up towards the face so that the ladies typically those are the long neck it's more comfortable they haven't got to bend over their neck across and slightly shorter 14 inches 36 centimeters long with a variety of pads so that for the taller ladies we can go out to about 14 and a half and under 14 inches four for shorter ladies so I think it covers all the bases only thing that will stop this gum dragging less now there's the place come towards you back to computers are the little Irish jump line maddie is getting into the swing do you enjoy today yeah absolutely I mean the yeah it's quite addictive for these when you do actually hit it either as fat and not so awesome at the moment but but yeah absolutely it's a really really great feeling and and it is interesting as well how when you know focus on everything that you can code you can tell you can feel when you're gone to do the shot and your mind slightly gone off somewhere else and you miss it and you can feel when on those occasions you do manage to you know get everything together at once it's a great feeling and you can really tell the difference between and that and when you're not doing what you told basically you gotta go through it nick is so convinced about his teaching work that he's putting his money where his mouth is if you feel you don't improve he won't charge you for the lesson I mean I could tell you a million stories about people coming here with an iPhone and pretty much like I used to be pretty much giving up and within I can pretty safely say within two or three minutes you see a grin come on their face and after ten minutes you see them keep looking at you and carry on shooting and after half an hour they've completely forgotten about how they used to do it and they're they've moved on so you can teach an old dog new tricks easy within minutes but I've got to make it last an hour okay for more information go to Penn sports watch co dot uk' and for more information about the Beretta range including the new grade one six ninety and the Victoria ladies gun line go to team K dot coach UK [Music]

Channel: Fieldsports Channel

Views: 407,384

Rating: 4.6982036 out of 5

Keywords: shooting, clayshooting, eye dominance, dominant eye, nick penn, pennsport, shooting instruction

Id: RFUHXrMWUXo

Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/MattLock]

I stopped watching the video after noticing that no one was wearing eye protection. Eye dominance is real. Keeping both eyes open allow for depth perception. However, I do know of some that close an eye shooting particular targets, but they are older gentlemen that struggle with vision.

[u/[deleted]]

Eye dominance definitely matters. Both eyes open of course, but the effect of eye dominance is pretty easy to test and see....

[u/BinaryPulse]

The guy in this video is unheard of in the English clay scene and he acts like he's the fountain of all clay shooting knowledge and he's conducted many peer-reviewed, double-blind scientific experiments about eye dominance.

He doesn't know what he's on about and he's outright lying regarding eye dominance. Any instructor will tell you to keep both eyes open and he talks like it's his idea. I feel sorry for anyone having lessons with him.

[u/skyburn]

I don't get it - this guy must be right-handed and right-eye-dominant and not understand cross-dominance. I watched until they started talking about new Beretta models; I didn't hear him say anything that would help a cross-dominant shooter.

I'm right handed and left-eye dominant. Sure, I can shoot left handed, and keep both eyes open - that's awkward though. So I shoot right handed and I close my left eye. The only thing I "miss" is a greater level of peripheral vision. That requires me to keep my gun lower than the lip of the trap house so I don't miss a bird coming out of the house. In skeet, it requires me to adjust my starting "aim" points so that I don't cover the target when it's released.

It's not physically possible for me to shoot right handed with both eyes open. Period.

[u/GasCucksMemeWarNow]

Eye dominance is a thing and you shouldn't shoot a shotgun with one eye closed. Get a fitter to check your mount so that there is no pull from your non-dominant eye and adjust fit/the bead accordingly.

Not sure who this "top shot" is but most would disagree with him. And tell you to put some fucking eye protection on.