One Eye or Two?

[Darren Petts]

Two if possible as it helps reduce squinting in your scope eye. Much depends on whether you are right or left eye dominant. If your dominant eye is your scope eye you will be ok if it's the reverse then it can cause problems. A blanking plate attatched to the scope or even a side swinging butler to blank off the target for a dominant spare eye, if that's the case can help.

[Murphy]

I have one eye closed.
I find 2 eyes open makes the sight picture dimmer.

[NeilM]

Always two eyes.

If you find the picture in the non-scope eye distracting, arrange a butler creek so that when you have it open, it obscures the view.

Neil

[8mm Mauser]

One eye open .

[u.k.neil]

Always two eyes open but use an eyeshield to obscure the other eye.

Neil

[Rabbit Man]

one eye shut

[Gwylan]

The way I shot on Sunday, I must have had both eyes shut..!

Gus

[0007ev]

shoot with both eyes open. l find it helpful in locating the target as l shoot at 50 mag.

[Kingplinker]

both eyes shut hence the reason for me being a ****e shot

[DAR]

Two eyes up to 15yds, one eye after that.

[davebmw]

both eyes shut hence the reason for me being a ****e shot

beat me too it

[NearoZero]

Two if possible as it helps reduce squinting in your scope eye. Much depends on whether you are right or left eye dominant. If your dominant eye is your scope eye you will be ok if it's the reverse then it can cause problems. A blanking plate attatched to the scope or even a side swinging butler to blank off the target for a dominant spare eye, if that's the case can help.

i agree with this, personally both eyes open until the last moments before the shot.

With one eye shut unecessary tension can build up, 2 eyes helps because you have a greater FOV, field of view/vision.

[kenritz]

Much thanks to all, great bunch of guy`s and knowledgeable too! and the smart a$$ed comments.. PriceLess

Cheers Mates, Ken

[Asterixxx]

To aquire the target with heavy magnification I use one eye. Once target aquired and ranged I shoot with two eyes. In total that makes three !
Helps for several things :
Making sure line of fire is free and noone pops up from behind the bushes
Checking my spirit(s) level
Reducing muscular strain and squinting
Keeping second eye on target when it runs flies or is blown away or over
In any case find out what your dominant eye is and hope it is not the third one.