With or without prescription glasses/ contacts only the front sight should be in focus, the rear sight & target will both be blurry. Your brain will align the back sight. You can’t focus on all three, both eyes open , front sight , trigger, bang. This is the reason the better 10m pistols have a dry fire function.It's crazy how emotion and input affects your shooting.
I cross my eyes on the front post when aiming. Fully crossed. It blocks out everything except the sights and the target. Your brain simply gives up processing input when it cancels out your weak eye.
It blocks out outside input and overrides stress. It's very useful technique. It temporarily short circuits your brain and gives you complete focus on the shot. I started a thread about it a couple months back. I don't know how to link it. I think it was "shooting crosseyed" in the title.
My shooting buddy is an intolerable tit. He could make a fence post mad with the constant bull$hit he says. I practice every day with that obnoxious windbag. I've developed highly refined coping techniques to deal with him. One of them is shooting crosseyed.
It does help me get on target and shoot faster. It seems to slow things down and help you time the trigger. And it blocks out all frustrations, noise, and other ignorant tomfrickery that's going on around you.
When it comes to shooting fast or under stress you have to practice under stress. You can induce stress into your routine with time limits. You can shoot with your pants down. Or shoot with a guy that just pisses you off in the marrow of your bones. It all teaches you to block out the static and get to work.
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