Expert Shooters

Congratulations, you’re an expert shooter.  You’ve put in the hours (and the $$$ for the ammo) to master your craft.    You’re fast and your groupings are tight.  While most shooters will turn their head to the side or squint one eye to avoid parallax (seeing either 2 guns or 2 targets – one from each eye), at your level, your brain automatically suppresses information from one eye so you can focus on the other.  The downside is that having a dominant eye shuts down peripheral vision, and because of the way the brain works, when peripheral vision goes offline, balance, reaction time, coordination and mental flexibility are all degraded.   While this trade off works in competitions, in a violent encounter where you have to be mindful of the potential of multiple targets from any direction, and have to move over variable terrain while shooting, it is better to lose some accuracy (but still make thoracic hits) in exchange for peripheral vision, better balance, reaction time, coordination, mental flexibility.  The best operator can walk in both worlds.  Deliberate hostage rescue shots into the medulla when required, explosively fast thoracic hits when not.