Anybody practice shooting with their weak hand?

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I was terrible with my non-dominant hand and never used to practice using it. Until an instructor gave me a pointer: don't grip the gun very hard at all when using your support hand...it will jump all over in recoil, but your POI will be much closer to POA.

He was right.

Now, I'm just bad with my non-dominant hand. But I do practice with it a little bit more.
 
I carry and shoot my lcp2 in my left pocket and with the left hand respectively. i'm actually a pretty good shot with that little pistol. I shoot it every time I go out and shoot handguns.

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Ok - never. I never practice with my weak hand. I shoot just fine with my dominant hand\eye and don't see a real need to change.
 
I didn't have a weak hand until I damaged my left at work, then it got weaker last summer with nerve damage. I still shoot with it, just not quite as fast or as good. I was actually better with the left, being left eye dominant.
 
Yes, for better or worse -

2 handed
1 handed each hand
Both ways with one of each eye closed as if injured
Against barricade with each hand, with both eyes open and each closed.
2 handed, and with each hand individually, on one leg from each side off the ground and standing knee bent as if one leg injured.
 
I try to when I can. I've been slipping from USPSA and IDPA where it's pretty mandatory.

I'm definitely not as proficient as I should be.

Definitely a worthwhile skill to have.
 
USPSA shooter, so almost every practice session.
Have found that for me at least, when I shoot one-handed I get best results shooting with the "off-side eye" squinted or closed. IE right hand=left eye closed, left hand=right eye closed, I understand that W.H.O. it's stopping me from crossing the gun to my dominant eye and the poor alignment that causes for me. But why it improves my results S.H.O. where the gun is already on my dominant side. but my group sizes shrank noticeably on both cases.
 
weak hand and non-dominant eye. because you never know when SHTF really means SHTF.
The first time I tried to shoot left-handed, I thought it would be better to use my left eye because that felt more symmetrical or something... the shot hit the outermost ring. Ever since then I use my right eye regardless of which hand I am shooting with.
 
Yes, for better or worse -

2 handed
1 handed each hand
Both ways with one of each eye closed as if injured
Against barricade with each hand, with both eyes open and each closed.
2 handed, and with each hand individually, on one leg from each side off the ground and standing knee bent as if one leg injured.
I think shooting standing on one leg would be hard. Maybe that means I should try it.
 
Rifle, shotgun or pistol. Doesn't matter left or right. My favorite shotgun is the Ithica 12g. Ejects out bottom so is good to shoot.
 
Ok - never. I never practice with my weak hand. I shoot just fine with my dominant hand\eye and don't see a real need to change.
It's not a bad skill to have should your strong hand become injured, or you are required to shoot from behind cover where shooting strong hand would expose yourself.

It was part of our training, and required for re-qualification. Since retired, I still try and remember to practice at the range because my LEOSA re-qual includes it.
 
Some of us shoot pistols lefty and rifles righty. So really it doesn’t matter which hand I use. I enjoy using both for various reasons but primarily because I don’t have a dominance issue.
 
Here's the best way. Break your dominant wrist. Then be lucky enough to have signed up for an injured shooters class and Mas' LFI-1 with stress fire while still in the cast. That will do it. Don't ask how I know - ouch. Seriously, I shoot with the nondominant hand at matches when called for and when I go to the square range, I will run some with it. I find I can do decently. What bugs me is when I do a run with the dominant hand and then do better with my nondominant hand. That's because I'm probably concentrating on grip, sights and trigger a touch more.
 
NRA AP and ICORE also use weak hand only. I believe the NRA Distinguishd Pistol course also has one handed elements.

I've shot one handed enough that at times I find it easier and quicker to engage very close targets with one hand even though it's not called for in the COF.
 
I shoot my 1911 almost exclusively with my non-dominant (right) hand. But I don't do as much one-handed shooting with either as I should. I try to get a little of that in at most range sessions, but often get distracted with other challenges.
 
The first time I tried to shoot left-handed, I thought it would be better to use my left eye because that felt more symmetrical or something... the shot hit the outermost ring. Ever since then I use my right eye regardless of which hand I am shooting with.

And I'm the opposite. If I shoot weak hand/dominant eye, or to some extent when I shoot strong(Rt) hand/both eyes open (Vs squinting my left eye slightly) my "groups" turn into "Patterns". and when I match hand to eye, nice reasonable groups. groups produced "weak sided" are always slightly larger than strong but still distinctly better than if I shoot left handed/Right eyed.

It didn't occur to me to try shooting "Fully left-sided" until I had struggled for over a year trying to get my W.H.O. groups to stay inside the C-zone of a USPSA target at 25 yards. then the day I finally went "I wonder what would happen..?" it was like someone flipped a switch and my W.H.O. groups shrank by half or better.
 
shoot both with 2 hand grip with strong and weak hand. also practice one hand strong and weak. when I'm tired with DA action revolver i shoot DA with weak hand. with 2 hand grip

I'm worst with weak hand single hand DA.
 
I'm another person who practices it because USPSA sometimes dictates shoot WHO during a match. In fact, I have recently ramped up the amount of attention I'm giving to it. Still have a long way to go. The pre-ignition push/flinch that I spent so long overcoming when shooting freestyle rears its head on about 20% of WHO shots.

Next time I go to the range, I need to burn about 500 rounds of 22lr. and 100 rounds of centerfire ammo WHO. Which just feels like work. Oh well, working is what makes us better at things.
 
I practice weak hand with the 2nd pistol I carry in my weak hand front pocket.
That 2nd pistol allow me to put my hand on it without revealing I'm carrying, can't do that with pistol IWB.
If something caused my dominant hand to be "unavailable" I could easily (quickly) draw with my weak hand.
 
The first time I tried to shoot left-handed, I thought it would be better to use my left eye because that felt more symmetrical or something... the shot hit the outermost ring. Ever since then I use my right eye regardless of which hand I am shooting with.
I don't do it for symmetry, but for proficiency no matter what organs are disabled at a critical time.
Doing an a-periodic (meaning, I should do it more!) session that has:
left hand-eye only
right hand-eye only
2 handed strong left hand-left eye
2 handed strong right hand-right eye
should pretty much cover the bases of most any shooting needs.
From some prior practice I determined that cross eye dominant doesn't really affect me in terms of dramatically bad accuracy over standard alignment, so I don't generally toss that in the mix, except for maybe a couple "check rounds" down range even less frequently.

It falls back into my belief in Student of Weapons Craft, vs. Master of My Equipment. I can pretty much pick up any firearm at this point and immediately or very quickly be putting rounds on target in Minute of Bad Guy accuracy. I still like to see if I can cut the smallest ragged hole in target that I can as much as I can as fast as I can, but when practicing "non-standard" configurations, MoBG is my minimum goal.
 
@FL-NC you've made me realize I've not tried to figure out how to run a rifle down a wing and/or an eye. I need to make some time to go work on that.
 
Here's the best way. Break your dominant wrist. Then be lucky enough to have signed up for an injured shooters class and Mas' LFI-1 with stress fire while still in the cast. That will do it. Don't ask how I know - ouch. Seriously, I shoot with the nondominant hand at matches when called for and when I go to the square range, I will run some with it. I find I can do decently. What bugs me is when I do a run with the dominant hand and then do better with my nondominant hand. That's because I'm probably concentrating on grip, sights and trigger a touch more.

Way back when I played baseball I was a better hitter, both in average and power, when batting leftie.

I also believe it was because the discomfort made me focus on fundimentals more.
 
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