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Was at range today with a small group including my wife. She is more of a pistol person and is right handed but left eye dominant. Right eye has some weakness so left does all the hard work. Had her pick up a rifle with a red dot and she just couldn't get her head in position behind the scope to see the red dot unless she moved stock in towards center of chest. Obviously she cant operate a long gun this way.
There has to be an option that would work for her so I'm looking for any experience you folks may have with other optics types or solutions. Here's what I have come up with so far:
1) teach her to shoot left handed. She's not interested in this - not comfortable for her at all.
2) put an optic in more of a scout mount position (ie further away from face toward midpoint of rifle) to reduce the angle between eye and scope. Maybe a reflex type vs a red dot?
3) Use a 45 degree mount and put red dot more in front of her left eye. Unsure how this would impact accuracy as now dealing with something not just above bore axis but to side as well.
Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks in advance.
There has to be an option that would work for her so I'm looking for any experience you folks may have with other optics types or solutions. Here's what I have come up with so far:
1) teach her to shoot left handed. She's not interested in this - not comfortable for her at all.
2) put an optic in more of a scout mount position (ie further away from face toward midpoint of rifle) to reduce the angle between eye and scope. Maybe a reflex type vs a red dot?
3) Use a 45 degree mount and put red dot more in front of her left eye. Unsure how this would impact accuracy as now dealing with something not just above bore axis but to side as well.
Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks in advance.
) has very weak vision. A problem that could have been corrected as a child had it been diagnosed. Left eye needs to drive.
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