I'm right handed but left eye dominant, I just taught myself to shoot left handed.
Oar
Have you seen this, to get you thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcVFrk7omk
I'm right handed but left eye dominant, I just taught myself to shoot left handed.
Oar
Not quite.
The problem is not just case in the eye (ouch) but also charging handle removing teeth (big ouch).
They originally intended to field both right and left handed versions. But then thought sod it, because, as you say, all soldiers have both eyes functional.
I am no fan of the SA80, certainly not in its original form, and think we’d have been much better off buying the Dimaco version of the M16 or a developed version of the Sterling-Armalite AR18 or similar, but the SA80 is, by service rifle standards, notably accurate.
My point was simply that if your master eye and strong shoulder don’t match, the best option is to learn to shoot from the weak shoulder.
Indeed.
It’s a bit of a minor national embarrassment that every unit that can use something else than the service rifle does.
Not just the secret ninjas, but 43 Cdo, Pathfinders, RMP CP, and others. All AR15 variants.
We’ve been issuing AR15 since the early 60s (before it became the M16). If we hadn’t had political equity in Enfield, and a degree of national exceptionalism, we’d surely not have adopted SA80, and instead chosen a weapon that we’d already been using, in limited numbers, and successfully, for a quarter of a decade.
France was the same. Went for the FAMAS. Now being replaced by the HK416F, a piston variant of Gene Stoner’s 1958-vintage AR15.
I can get a bit boring about this, so will shut up now.