Posted on 02/08/2017 12:29:52 PM PST by PROCON
The Problem:
A few days ago, one of the better shooters in your club, who is right handed, came to your monthly training session outfitted with left-handed gear. After a little chiding and questions, more out of curiosity as to why the new get-up, his comment was “it makes you think.” You get it, sort of, but what’s that got to do with improving one’s shooting skills? He’s one of your top shooters and he shoots as well with one hand as the other, which leaves you to wonder if there isn’t a little more to it than just thinking. As a result, you’re left wondering how working from the support side helps one to become a better shooter.
The Solution:
There is a little more to it than mental skill development, but that is often an unrecognized aspect of shooter-performance improvement.
Long ago, I got my first exposure to this concept of shooter improvement as a member of a new-shooter training team honing our skills one summer at the Army Marksmanship Unit in Fort Benning, GA. Unfortunately, I have forgotten the coach’s name to give him proper credit, but at the end of the shooting day he announced that we all would shoot our last 10 shots of the training session left-handed (support side), slow-fire at 50 yards, in the allotted 10-minute time frame.
Every one of us on the line thought he was joking until he reiterated for us to get ready to shoot. I thought to myself, “This is going to be ugly” and went to work when the “commence-fire” command was given.
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friend and i tried playing racquetball left handed. it did not go well.
Dyslexics will be happy to note there is no benefit to shooting your hand off...
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LOL, that’s what I thought it said. I trying to find the benefit in shooting your hand off.
Decades of this.... right and left hand barricade, weak hand strong hand, injured reload etcetera ..... Glad they still teach it ....
I’ve never tried it.
I’m nearly blind in my left eye. Could be interesting.
I’ve never tried it.
I’m nearly blind in my left eye. Could be interesting.
I used to shoot some matches that required a session of weak hand shooting. Since I am a somewhat ambidextrous switch hitter, it wasn’t all that hard for me, and several times was the margin of victory. The only thing that is a little unnatural is lining up with the dominant eye if you are the norm rt hand rt dominant eye.
one handed, you cant the gun into your dominant eye, at least that is how I was taught.
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