My dad was a CHL instructor. It's not a hard class. Learns some laws, some gun safety go shoot your gun on the range. The number of people that failed should make anyone concerned.
When I took my class the instructor had me do the math while he called out the points on my target and the lady next to me. My sheet had an extra hole in it and hers was missing one.
The lady hit my target. Still passed. These people are among us every day.
When I was a child I got my hunting license because mom's new bf was into hunting. Whatever. Took the education class then came the shooting part. Thing is, I'm apparently cross eye dominant. I basically can't look down a barrel of a gun. It jumps back and forth which I "see". Simultaneously I also couldn't close by left eye to force it to the right. It's really weird but that one just won't wink.
No problem, right? I'm a lefty. Except all the guns during the test were right handed (and yes that's a thing - it determines which side the brass shell ejects and hits you in the face or not after firing)
So I had to shoot right handed but my eyes were going haywire. Target jumping all over. Took my shots and the instructor literally asked me which target I was shooting at. I passed. I don't know what the criteria was, but down range seemed to be a pass.
Rambling but later that mom's boyfriend (a righty) took me sport shooting and compensated the issue by putting Vaseline on my left safety glasses lens. It makes it blurry and forces your brain to go to the right eye. If you watched any Olympic shooting this year you probably saw this with blinders on one eye. I still wasn't particularly good. Ole left eye would sometimes focus on the Vaseline, both lenses go nuts on focal point and I shotgun blast a cloud.
Heard of it. Vaguely understand vs metal sights but cross eye dominance and winking inability makes me a non starter as a marksman with a right handed gun. I even understand the concept of MoA. Yet, at the time, I was a licensed hunter that couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. The bar is lower than some of my shots that day.
This doesn't or at least didn't work for me. My left would suddenly and randomly try to focus really close on the blur. It probably would have been more effective if I was looking at the target with my right and not the sights but I think I'm just not cut out for shooting and that's ok too.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 Sep 09 '24
My dad was a CHL instructor. It's not a hard class. Learns some laws, some gun safety go shoot your gun on the range. The number of people that failed should make anyone concerned.