Eye Dominance and Marker Preference

[Grendel]

1. What is your dominant hand? Right
2. What is your dominant eye ? Left
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Right Feed
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Don't hate any but my least favorite would be CF
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? Pistol, but that may be because I do not play it enough to get used to it.

[glaman5266]

1. What is your dominant hand?
2. What is your dominant eye ?
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)?
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)?
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to?

1: Right.
2: Right.
3: Depends on the paintgun. Semis are CF, pumps are RF. If I only get one shot I want to look right down the top. Though I haven't tried a LF cocker yet, but I liked my LF Automag so I'd probably like that.
4: Flat-top/stock class with the feed tube on top (think VSC Phantom). Mainly because my sight picture is thrown off, as I'm used to sighting right down the barrel. I can run my Trracer (RF) with a stock class tube, which is better, though even then my right-side peripheral is partially blocked by the feed tube.
5: See number 4.

Overall, it just depends on the paintgun or if I'm playing pump or semi. I'm working more on shooting with my non-dominant hand & eye with semis lately, but I still can't do it with a pump. Perhaps a LF pump will help with that. Also, when playing semi I use a larger hopper & the weight distribution is off-putting when I have a 200rd loader on my RFs.

[Psycho91]

Favorite is Vertical feed, can't stand right or left feed, I'm right eye and hand dominate but when it comes to paintball none of that matters I can shoot both left and right handed and even seem to shoot and hold a marker better left handed though

[uv_halo]

I'm a relatively odd bird.
1. Right
2. Left (slightly as for most of my life my eyes were nearly ID so, I found it easy to switch. Now, as I'm older, my left is more pronounced).
3. When I started, Left or Right feed were the only options and the prevailing idea at the time was to put the hopper outside of your field of view (essentially the opposite today, which is to bring it more centrally to your field of view so you can keep it behind a bunker) so, I was sold a Left Feed Line SI Bushmaster. These days, I prefer magfed, Dfender, or Warp Feed.
4. Right Feed Cyclones. Center feeds are a close second.
5. None. Maybe because I like to fondle the guns a bit before I decide on taking one home.

[wunderbarsafari]

1. Right handed
2. Right eyed
3. Favorite is centerfeed, single tube guns.
4. Dislike power feed in either direction.
5. Over the top stick/stock feed is hard, although I adore vsc phantoms.

[Grendel]

For those of us who are eye dominate opposite of handedness there is an easy way to train to shift the dominance (temporarily) or make it easier to shift between eyes. Put your paintball mask on in a normal comfortable position and get a friend to mark on your lens where your pupil is on the lens with a dry erase marker. You can just leave a dot on there but I actually prefer to replace that dot with a vertical strip of "Scotch" tape approximately 1/8 " wide. The dot or the tape causes a focusing issue for your off handed eye and your brain will shift primacy of your vision to the other eye almost immediately. "Scotch" tape works well can be removed and after a short while playing you really will forget about it. I was shown this by my father when I first got into competitive shooting and was having issues with handguns but not long guns. My dad recognized the issue quickly and just put a dot of gun oil on the lens of my shooting glasses and almost immediately I was shooting better (he was a ranked Bullseye shooter during the 50s and 60s). When ever I take time off from shooting/playing paintball my eye dominance shifts back to my Left eye so when I get back into either regularly I have to retrain myself. If I play and/or shoot weekly it takes just a few sessions to shift and do not need need the obscuring mark anymore.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Interesting I did not know this my wife has this issue because she can not close one left eye only one right. I thought her to shoot left handed and instantly she has increased in accuracy and speed. Not that she has a choice but it’s interesting you can train your eyes like that. I’m going to try that with my son who has issues with his bow.

[Bow]

1. What is your dominant hand?
2. What is your dominant eye ?
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)?
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)?
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to?

1. Right
2. Right
3. CF, you can play a bit tighter overall and it's easy to switch eyes.
4. Powerfeed. Anything powerfed is dumb, it gets in your sightline on both sides. I get why it was made, but I'll never use one seriously.
5. Anything with a stock, or a tank that comes out the rear. Like the SAR12, ccm m40 or the t15/TMC lines of markers... I guess realistic milsim stuff lol. Just doesn't work with a mask.

[The Inflicted]

1. What is your dominant hand? Right.
2. What is your dominant eye ? Right.
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Stock class or underfeed are my preference, but centerfeed is acceptable.
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Leftfeed, although right side of the gun low, as on an A5 or X7 is almost as bad because it presents such a big target to your opponents.
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? I set up a forward-facing stock class tube on a Superbolt Sniper that I thought was going to be great- carbon fiber over a carbon fiber barrel, but the ergonomics of tipping the gun up to load rather than down like my Phantom were too hard to get used to.


Photos of your favorite marker and least favorite marker or any insights into the why would be amazing!


[/QUOTE]

My favorite setup, which you don't see nearly enough, in my opinion, is centerfeed with a diagonally-offset sight rail, like the Rainmaker and AGD TAC-One.
Sure, you can put an Armson behind a feedneck and have it still work fine, but clearance with the bottom of the loader is often a problem. Going diagonal fixes that.
I've modified an Ion and later and eNMEy to have sight rails like this and I've considered doing the same thing to my Etha 2 or MG-100.

[nighthunter]

I am not exactly sure what the best way to put my thoughts into words so i guess i will just put it into a question format and go from there.

1. What is your dominant hand? Righty
2. What is your dominant eye ? Right
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Center feed or flat top
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Right feed
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? Cyclone feed. Hadn't yet discovered how much of an obstacle a right-side hopper is to my field of view. The concept is really great but I just can't get used to the bulbous hopper right there. At the time I also thought the sights built into the tippmanns would be of some use but that really wasn't the case.


Photos of your favorite marker and least favorite marker or any insights into the why would be amazing!

The three favorites above. The Cocker and Shocker are both easy enough to roll to the side and aim across the barrel, while the TPX is just easy to aim. The Shocker mainly gets used if I'm stuck playing against tournament wannabes all day, and the TPX is mainly for woodsball shenanigans.

[Chappy]

Dominant hand: right
dominant eye: right
prefered setup: right feed forever
most gated setup: anything not right feed, with the exception of most stock class center feeds.
what setup did you…: left feed. I thought keeping it tucked in would be even better but i find it so very distracting for some reason.

Guess I’m an old dog.

[Chaos]

1. What is your dominant hand? Right2. What is your dominant eye ? Right
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Stock Class CF
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? LF
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? Rifle setups... Every single one I ever had I didn't keep long,I also seem to go back to pistols



My Favorites are my Carterized CIP Boxgun and my Palmerized Punisher's Customs K-frame PGP (aka Fang)


Least favorite that I just had to try for myself to see what a piece of garbage it was Was my old Sheridan Equalizer ... My finger hurts just thinking about pulling the trigger on that thing I don't have a picture of it unfortunately.

[Chuck E Ducky]

I’m surprised by the amount of people that prefer a right feed.

[RichM]

Love right feed... got used to looking at rifle sights so going to paintball guns I like to look over/down the barrel. I keep both eyes open when I aim but sight mainly with the right eye. Never tried left feed because it just won't work with the way I aim.

1. What is your dominant hand? Right What is your dominant eye ? Don't know which one is dominant, but I aim with my right.
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? RF
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? LF, can't do it
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? Powerfeed probably falls into this category, I end up throwing a red dot signt on powerfeeds that I use with any regularity.

Also I can't play with anything that has a stock out the back (back bottle setups, milsim style stocks, etc.), stock gets in the way and it drives me nuts.

[Grendel]

For those who do not know how to test for Dominant Eye: (shamelessly stolen so I do not have to write it up for myself and there are several ways to accomplish this the they are all variations on the steps below) I post this because I see an awful lot of Right handed Right dominate stated but statistics say that 60-70% Right handed people are right eye dominate so that leaves 30-40% left eye dominate and that does not seem to be the case here. I have know several shooters who swore they were right/right but when they finally submitted to being tested found out that was not the case.

Here is a basic dominant eye test that will allow you to determine the eye that is your dominant, or preferred, eye:

1. Extend both of your arms out directly in front of you. Create a triangle with your forefingers and thumbs.
2. With both of your eyes open, center this triangle on an object in the distance like a door knob or a wall clock.
3. Close your right eye.
4. If the object remains centered, then your left eye (the eye that is open) is your dominant eye. If the framed object isn’t framed any longer, then your right eye is dominant.

https://www.performancevisioninc.com...ominant%20eye.

[Toestr]

A friend I shot with competitively found out he was left eye dominant after shooting with the right eye for years. He was actually first alternate for a national team but wasn't called up. He only discovered his eye dominance after coaching one of the tryout courses for the national team and having to teach a lesson eye dominance. This was the year he would have been on the national team. I have no idea how this happened because eye dominance is literally a day one lesson.

[Grendel]

It is easy to get eye dominance wrong even with the test above and it can change over time. My eye dominance issue became less of a problem as I practiced and aged. As I got older my left eye sight got worse then my right which naturally shifted dominance to right. Then I made the mistake of having Lazik on both eyes and should have left my right eye alone. Now I am back to left eye dominance and the inability to see my sights. The easiest way to screw up the test is look at that triangle like you do your sights and focus on the triangle and not the shape in the background. When you do this the shift in picture when you close an eye is less due to it being closer to your eyes. The other is dominance is not binary it is a sliding scale on intensity and for some people just the act of looking through your sights shifts to the eye more in line with your sight picture. This may be the case with your friend given his success before determining dominance. There actually is a small percentage of people who have no set dominance but supposedly this is extremely rare.

[RichM]

Just tried this sitting at my office desk and it works well, turns out I'm very right-eye dominant... so that makes sense, given how I prefer to sight with a marker or firearm.

[MrBarraclough]

1. What is your dominant hand? Right. Shooting is about the only thing I can do competently with my off hand, and even then I'm slower to acquire targets and correct my aim.
2. What is your dominant eye? Left. I have spent years thinking I was mildly right eye dominant, but have recently noticed I'm actually left eye dominant. Caught myself shooting right handed with the back of my EMEK in front of my right eye and realized that I was aiming with my left.
3. What is your preferred setup (RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Centerfeed, definitely. Much more convenient than the all-RF era in which I started playing.
4. What is your most hated setup(RF,LF,CF, Flat topped and ect ect...)? Anything that overly obstructs the side of the barrel. Anything that forces one to shoulder the marker too low. I'm forever advising new kids to take those stupid M16 stocks off and to shoulder their tanks. Looking at you, Tippmann.
5. What setup did you think you were going to love but just couldn't get used to? Left handed shooting with a powerfeed Minimag body on my Automag. The left side of the barrel isn't terribly obstructed, but that powerfeed plug is a distracting nuisance.

I described my eye dominance as "mildly" because I always found it relatively easy to switch the perceived and ignored images with both eyes open. When I was about 12 I figured out that I could comfortably use magnified optics without closing the other eye, and could switch between viewing the target through the optic or around it by concentrating. Having somewhat weak eye dominance has proven to be something of a handicap in shotgunning and I struggle to maintain a consistent perception of my sight picture.