shooting with the wrong eye

[MrChipShoulder]

Thinking about it, if the scope was shoved over 3" to the left on a custom made mount, wouldn't that make the sight impossible to to set up at anything other than one set distance? Wouldn't it also make the rifle incredibly unbalanced?

[averageplinker]

I guess if he won't shoot left handed you could try making up a small scope mounted version of the periscopes people use to look over crowds.

[rancidtom]

In the shotgun world the answer is to use a "crossover" stock, for scope use on a rifle then a stock can be made or modified to suit.
I know of at least one shooter who shoots bell target right handed with a diopter using his left eye simply by removing the adjustable cheek piece from the stock and resting his chin on the cutout section of stock. This could easily be applied to a scoped rifle especially one that already has an adjustable cheek piece.
Using offset mounts with a scope will mean excessive crossover problems at ranges other than zero'd range, I would suggest that if unable to shoot left handed then the head should cross the stock to use a centrally mounted scope, I can't imagine shooting HFT with approx 65mm left offset on a scope! It would be no problem with fixed range competitions such as bench rest.

[MrChipShoulder]

Thank you guys, so it looks like a modified stock is the way to go.
I can do that with ease (but not on a new rifle !! )

[RobF]

Thank you guys, so it looks like a modified stock is the way to go.
I can do that with ease (but not on a new rifle !! )

If you drop the comb then you might get away with it, or setting up an alutec stock with an offset butt section may do it. The solution in shot guns is sometimes to use a S shaped stock, but I don't know how effective it actually is. That said the target shooting stocks often have rear sections that can be laterally offset which gets the gun over to the left more... that might work if taken further.

[angrybear]

Have you seen this, to get you thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcVFrk7omk

[ora8i]

I'm right handed but left eye dominant, I just taught myself to shoot left handed.

Oar

[pothunter]

Thinking about it, if the scope was shoved over 3" to the left on a custom made mount, wouldn't that make the sight impossible to to set up at anything other than one set distance? Wouldn't it also make the rifle incredibly unbalanced?

If the rifle has a monte carlo type cheek piece this could be removed so that his left eye is sitting closer to the centre line of the stock and with a bit of fettling could even be made slightly concave or cup shaped to get it even closer, that way his left eye will be much closer than 3".
When you think about it a scope is already above the bore line, so is only truly set up for one distance in the vertical plane, so distances closer or further need hold over/under or use of mildots etc.
If the scope was on a offset mount then the same would apply in the horizontal plane.