Is it Weird???

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I've always wondered but only just now realized to ask it on here... I am Left handed but shoot right handed. But shooting is the only thing i can do with my right hand. Am i special? haha. I've heard of people being ambidextrous but they also can usually do more than 1 thing with the opposite hand...

 

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C'mon, no thoughts anybody?

 

[DC3-CVN-72]

I do everything right handed except fish. I cast with my right hand and retrieve with my left hand.

 

[AJumbo]

You're left-handed, but right-eye dominant.

 

[Twiki357]

I'm right handed, but left eye dominant. I deal cards left handed, but just about every thing else I do right handed. I shoot handguns right handed, but sight with my left eye. With a rifle I have to sight with my right eye. It works but is not especially comfortable. Come to think of it, I have a habit with a bolt and semi rifle, I reach over the action to operate the bolt/operating handle with my left hand. Go figure.

 

[CelticArmory]

I shoot both left and right, though I'm right handed. About the only thing I don't do with my left is write. I work most of my tools both left and right, including drills and hand saws. I find it much easier for me that if my work is stationary that I switch hands to get into different areas of the work.

 

[Wildyams]

I've always thought I was all right handed, I thought I did everything right handed until last year a friend asked if I was left handed, because I was playing pool left handed.. never occurred to me before.

Be glad you shoot right handed though, much easier to find guns

 

[doc2rn]

It doesnt matter to me left or right, if I pick up the pen with the left I am writin lefty: same with the right. Baseball, shooting, doesnt matter to me because neither hemisphere of the brain was trained to be dominent. I can even twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions at the same time.

 

[HDCamel]

I right-handed and right eye dominant, but in baseball I'm lefty all the way.

 

[woad_yurt]

Done naturally with my right:
Writing, hammering nails, shooting, using sights or a scope, playing guitar, hammering nails, using a power drill, etc.

Done naturally with my left:
Throwing a ball, kicking, punching, swinging an ax, baseball bat, golf club, etc.

This summer, I took my niece shooting for her very first time.* Her shots were all over the place, everywhere except on paper. I noticed that she was using her left eye so I told her to try shooting lefty. Viola! Every shot thereafter was centered perfectly side-to-side but a little high. She got better with each shot but then got bored so she never really zeroed in. Aside from shooting, she does everything else righthanded.

* She had fun for ten minutes and was bored thereafter. I guess we don't have another enthusiast in the works. Sigh....

 

[303tom]

I am right-handed & right-eye dominant, scope & peep sight with my right eye, buckhorn & shotgun both eyes open.

 

[Tadracket]

I go both ways depending on the situation

 

[DammitBoy]

C'mon, no thoughts anybody?

Yes, you are weird.

 

[Perfesser]

I'm 'bilateral' also. I think it is the result of public schools in the 50's having a 'break lefties of the habit' mindset. I was forced to learn to write righthanded, but I am left eye dominant, shoot long arms on the left, throw things lefthanded, but shoot a handgun with either hand. Like CelticArmory I use tools with either hand. I think this double dexterity is somewhat rare; I get funny looks whenever I change hands to work in a tight spot. It probably has a lot to do with the way our brains are wired. Ever notice haw many people in the technical trades are lefties?

 

[RNB65]

Phil Mickelson is the best known left handed golfer in the world. Guess what? He's right handed.

I'm left handed and I shoot (and play golf) right handed.

Quite common, I think.

 

[hey_poolboy]

I am left handed, but nearly ambidextrous. The only thing I can't do with my right hand is write. I shoot either way, but I am right eye dominant, so most of my shooting is right handed.

I don't think it's weird. I am the only lefty in my family, therefore my Dad taught me to do most things right handed as a child. I golf right handed, but most other sports I (used to be) pretty proficient left or right.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

I have actually learned to write left handed and do a bunch of stuff left handed that somethings I don't know which way I would do it if I was solely right handed.