How hard will this be?

[glenhunter]

I just bought a new Remington rifle, a model 770 30-06 and I'm a lefty!!
Will it matter that the cheek pad is on the opposite side of the stock. Doesn't seem to bother me at all. My one other problem is that I'm right eye dominant, so I have to tilt my head a bit more to view in the scope. Can I be effective with this gun? Thanks.

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[Bowhunters]

It is up to you but I would make an attempt to try to force your left eye to become dominant, from what I understand it is possible with time and work, its likely you will become a better shooter when you achieve that and you will certainly be happier shooting.

There are eye patches that you can wear while at the range and if you wear glasses there are bluring patches that will stick to the lens and some other tricks you can do at home to train your left eye to become dominant.

I'm sure you could find information on that if you googled it.

To answer your question yes you could probably have no problem shooting with your right eye but you will probably always feel uncomfortable shooting cross dominant and you may be more easily subjected to getting 'scope eye'.

[DocHolladay]

If you are left handed and right eye dominant, I would suggest you learn to shoot right handed or start using your left eye as BH suggested. If it is easier to use your right eye, then I would shoot right handed. My mother and my best friend are both right handed and left eye dominant. They shoot left handed. If you put in enough practice, right handed shooting will be natural and you wont skip a beat.

[cjg]

If you are left handed and right eye dominant, I would suggest you learn to shoot right handed

I'd second that, you've got some major conflicts going on.

[nyhunter24]

my grandpa has the same problemm but with a bow. he uses a patch over his dominent eye and he can shoot left handed great now. seems to work wonders

[Tony204ing]

I think that i would have more problems trying to use my my non dominant eye than my opposite hand but thats just me.