Elevate your shooting accuracy and consistency with the EasyHit Orange Fibre Optic Shotgun Shooting Bead. This innovative shotgun sight is expertly engineered to address common eye dominance challenges, including mixed, shallow, and cross-eye dominance. Ideal for a wide array of outdoor, hunting, fishing, and sporting pursuits, such as clay shooting, the EasyHit bead empowers shooters to maintain critical binocular vision. This ensures superior visual acuity, a broader visual field, enhanced depth perception (stereopsis), precise target location, and improved anticipation, leading to more confident and successful shots.

Key Benefits of the EasyHit Orange Fibre Optic Shotgun Shooting Bead:

• Corrects Eye Dominance: Effectively resolves mixed, shallow, and cross-eye dominance issues for improved aiming.
• Maintains Binocular Vision: Allows you to keep both eyes open, preserving your full visual field and depth perception.
• Enhanced Target Acquisition: The bright Red fibre optic provides a clear, fast sight picture, even in varying light conditions.
• Durable Construction: Built to withstand the rigours of outdoor and sporting environments.
• Simple Installation: Designed for easy, non-permanent attachment to your shotgun rib.
• Improved Shooting Performance: Gain greater confidence and consistency in hitting moving and crossing targets.

Victor Scrooby, a Sports Vision Optometrist and consultant to the Great Britain Target Shooting Federation World Class Programme, endorses the EasyHit solution for its simple and natural approach to improving visual skills in shooting.

Eye dominance is a well-established phenomenon where one eye provides more input to the brain than the other, significantly influencing how you perceive your target and align your shotgun. While its exact mechanism is complex, it often parallels the brain's asymmetry, and its depth can vary. Cross-dominance (where your dominant eye is opposite your shooting shoulder) and shallow dominance (where dominance fluctuates) are common and can adversely affect sporting performance, leading to inconsistent shots and frustration.

Optimal visual function is paramount for performance in sports like clay shooting, which relies on instinctive pointing rather than precise aiming. Key visual skills critical for shooting performance include visual acuity and dynamic visual acuity, anticipation, stereopsis (depth perception), peripheral awareness, and glare recovery. All these skills are significantly compromised or impossible without maintaining binocular vision.

Understanding your master eye is crucial for accurate shooting. Follow these steps to determine your eye dominance:

1. Prepare: Hold an eye sight tester card or a DVD between your trigger finger and thumb. With both eyes open, hold the DVD with your arm straight at waist height in front of you. Slowly raise the DVD at arm's length to any small stationary object, looking through the hole at the chosen object. Repeat this exercise three times.
2. Check: On the third raising, close or cover your left eye with your left hand if you are a right-shouldered shooter. If you are a left-shouldered shooter, close or cover your right eye with your right hand.
3. Result:
   • If the object remains visible, your master eye is aligned to the rib, which is ideal. You should then test for middle vision.
   • If the object vanishes from view, you have cross-eye dominance. This requires correction to shoot accurately with both eyes open. If the object moved when you obscured the non-aligned eye, it indicates that eye has the dominant view, leading to incorrect gun pointing.
4. Remedy: The EasyHit Orange fibre optic shooting bead is designed to establish dominance in the correct shooting eye (the eye that follows the line of the rib) without reducing peripheral or binocular vision. It subtly encourages the brain to accept the eye over the rib as dominant. This corrective effect continues as long as the EasyHit bead is fitted and does not require you to look at it whilst shooting.

Achieving safe and consistent shooting results is best done with both eyes open. Even with a 'correct' master eye, your sight pictures and hit rate can be affected by 'middle vision' (also known as 'central' or 'shallow vision'). To test for middle vision, you will need assistance:

1. Step 1: Your assistant stands approximately 4 feet away, facing you with one eye completely covered by their hand.
2. Step 2: Take an EasyHit eyesight tester card or a CD in your trigger finger and thumb. Hold the CD at arm's length, at waist height, directly in front of you.
3. Step 3: Slowly raise the CD at arm's length, straight up the centre of your body, and view the visible eye of your assistant through the hole. Repeat this test three times. On the third raising, keep the CD raised so you can still see their eye in the centre of the hole.
4. Step 4: The assistant looks through the hole and describes what they see. With their perfect eye dominance (using only one eye), they will observe the effect of your middle vision and where your gun is truly pointing.

While some shooters might experience natural correction of middle vision by simply shouldering the gun, this effect often diminishes during longer shooting sessions. Factors such as age, dehydration, sugar levels, food intake, or monthly cycles can also influence eye dominance daily. The EasyHit bead is designed to naturally, safely, and instantly eliminate the fluctuations of all degrees of middle vision and cross-eye dominance.

Without the EasyHit bead, a shooter with cross-eye dominance (e.g., a right-shouldered shooter with a left dominant eye) might subconsciously align their non-dominant eye with the bead or barrel, leading to incorrect lead and off-target shots. Similarly, middle vision can cause subtle yet significant aiming errors. For instance, right-to-left targets might be given too much lead, and left-to-right targets too little, resulting in shots consistently to the left for right-shouldered shooters.

When the EasyHit Orange fibre optic bead is fitted, it effectively convinces the brain to prioritise the eye over the rib. This allows the shooter to naturally use their correct eye to focus on the target and accurately judge lead. This correction helps shooters improve their results and gain confidence in hitting crossing targets and avoiding common errors like shooting to the left of driven targets.

Common methods for correcting dominance problems in clay shooting often involve:

• Closing or Occluding One Eye: While frequently used, this method reduces or eliminates crucial visual skills required for effective shooting, as it sacrifices binocular vision.
• Frosting: Applying frosting to the dominant eye is intended to resolve cross-dominance but can have a similar disruptive effect on binocular vision as total occlusion.

The EasyHit Orange fibre optic shooting bead offers a natural and effective alternative, allowing shooters to maintain full binocular vision while correcting eye dominance for improved accuracy and consistency in the field.