JCN wrote: I am cross eye dominant as well. This is why I shoot a lefty shotgun!
I shoot pistol and rifle with my right hand. Pistol is easy to move the sights in front of my left eye and with a rifle scope/sights I can use my right eye with no problem. Just had to learn how to shoot lefty when aiming at those clays!
JEBar ~~~ Yup again, as I knew that from previous service work with Carlson's. Thanks. When I had my cylinder bore 12-gauge, I found out that Carlson's could/would put in threads at barrel end for chokes. Decided at that time to keep it a plain-Jane cylinder bore barrel.
Q on "closing the eye you don't want to use." Okay, that seems logical. But then do I just focus my view over the barrel and don't use any sights, correct? Just the same if both eyes were kept open? If I were to try and use the rifle sights, I think I'd never be able to keep effectively/accurately ahead of the clay as it zipped by.
Another result of the mods I did to my shotgun is that for either skeet or trap, my barrel length is now too short. The 18-1/2" length just doesn't cut it as those clays rapidly fade into the distance.
I might try trap again per your suggestion, JEBar. But I think any skeet rounds are not in the future for me. That's okay. Not only do the clays fade away, elder eyes do also.
JEBar wrote: just as an FYI .... Carlson provides a service where they thread 12 & 20 ga barrels to where choke tubes can be used .... I've had them take care of a Remington 1100 for me and they do excellent work .... before you give up on shooting skeet, try closing the eye you don't want to use in sighting your shotgun .... I know its not the generally accepted way but it does work .... I'm proof of that