ReadyNutrition Readers, you are all well-aware of charity…where your left hand should not know what your right does. In survival, it is the opposite: you need to train yourself bilaterally…that is, to be ambidextrous to a certain degree. In the manner that you lift weights and exercise, should you train in survival skills. When you do bicep curls, do you perform them with only your dominant hand? No, of course not. You train with both hands and both arms and develop yourself symmetrically and equally.
How about things that require you to perform to survive? Firing a rifle or pistol, for one. If you’re right-handed and (God forbid) you are wounded in the hand, or suffer from a broken finger, then what? Then you must follow after Gunny Highway’s advice (Clint Eastwood’s Marine Gunnery Sergeant in the movie “Heartbreak Ridge”).
Training for Ambidextrous Shooting Abilities
We’re going to talk through it for a right-handed firer (since most people are right-handed). Lefties, just do the same thing as I’m instructing here with the opposite hand. Pistol first. You are going to fire your pistol with the left hand, as your right hand is badly broken. With a revolver, this is simpler, but with a semiautomatic handgun? Well, your spent brass ejects from the right. Therefore, your point of aim has to be the same…from your right eye…but you’re firing with your left hand.
This is going to take some practice for you. You’re going to be firing the semiautomatic pistol with your left hand, but “crossing over” to use your right eye…and fire from your right-hand side. Your sight picture is the same as it would be if you were firing with your right hand…but it will feel a bit different, as it is with your left, now, and your arm still needs to be outstretched and straight.
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