Happy Left-Handers' Day!

[moparedtn]

being the youngest of 8, the house was full of baseball gloves for right handers.......... Mom said I used both hands for many things when I was little, so I got the hand me down glove that put the ball in my right hand and no one thought better of it....... I never had a great throwing arm, I believe I was meant to throw left handed.......... a victim of coycumstance, nyuk nyuk nyuk

Oh yeah, as a lefty I oftentimes improvised using a righties' glove on my right hand (neat trick, that) during
games at school (the elementary school had a bag of equipment for us to use during recess in those days;
our "diamond" was a gravel lot behind the school).
If you could play well in such conditions, then the real deal on a grassy field was a snap.

 

[DeltaV]

I clap with my left hand.

 

[turbine68rt]

Left at throwing, batting, bowling, billiards, darts, kicking, writing, golfing.
Right at archery, rifle/pistol.
Whatever works I guess.

 

[moparedtn]

Left at throwing, batting, bowling, billiards, darts, kicking, writing, golfing.
Right at archery, rifle/pistol.
Whatever works I guess.

Dominant eye comes into play with shooting and such, I imagine.

 

[33 IMP]

With my eye troubles and tribulations, dominant eye has changed about five times.

 

[moparedtn]

With my eye troubles and tribulations, dominant eye has changed about five times.

That happens more frequently than you think.
I know my formerly lesser eye (right) that had astigmatism most of my adult life checked out
as damn near 20/20 last time (confirmed by the fact I had stopped wearing glasses for all but
close-up reading).
I asked the doc how that happened - do eyes "heal"?
He said nope, you got cataracts forming and right now, one of them is acting like a corrective lens.
Of course it is...

A famous "cross-dominant" shooter I can think of is hickok45 on YT. He's a righty, but watch how he
sights a weapon in his hands - he pulls his head over from the left because he's left-eye dominant.
That he's such an incredible shot is only magnified in my opinion by the fact he's cross- dominant.
Amazing....but I'm quickly getting there, too.

 

[GetX'd]

You guys have probably heard of this - I’m technically right handed, however left eye dominant. So it particularly comes into play with weaponry. Hunting I could not see down the barrel of my rifle unless it was on my left shoulder and I was looking down the barrel with my left eye. Bow hunting same thing. I had to buy a left handed bow in order to draw and shoot properly. Interestingly enough when it comes to hand guns I can shoot just as effectively with either hand. My weapons expert buddy advised me I had to choose and train with either or - not both. So I will shoot a hand gun right handed.

I never knew why I was set up that way until seeing a movie long ago about a military dude they were trying to train to fly birds. He just couldn’t get it right - until they tried shutting down his right eye and he operated lefty - suddenly he became an expert in his training and combat effectiveness. When I saw that movie a lot of things opened up for me and the whys and how to deal w/it.

 

[Triplegreen500]

I've shot right-handed rifles and such for years, of course - so when the salesman showed me an actual
LEFT-HANDED AR-15 several years ago, my mind was blown.
How cool is that! No brass in the sight line was sort of weird at first - but I love the damn thing now.
Turns out, the suppliers of such critters to our military are required in their contracts to make so much
a percentage of production be left-handed (mine is a Stag, built like a tank).

I also have a lefty Stag (3 gun elite). I'm not lefty...completely, anyway (write right, throw a baseball left, kick left, throw a Frisbee right, can bat either way, bow and arrow either way - dad was full left mom full right)...but I'm left eyed so my rifles (bolt action .308 Savage and my Stag) are lefty. And my posture with the handguns is...unique, lol. Right hand trigger finger, shift my shoulders and stance to put it in front of my left eye...messed with my exam trainer when I was qualifying for my CCW!

 

[33 IMP]

For what it's worth, when bowling righty (currently left eye dominant, but focal length challenged) I often have to ask my friends which lane board I hit.
Bowling lefty, a lot less guesswork. I just wish I was better at hitting what I aim at. In several genres, lol.