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Training in Weaver but would like to shoot Isosceles

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kmaultsby	Training in Weaver but would like to shoot Isosceles	Lead	[-]
Posts: 36 (10/31/09 14:01:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None I know this is going to cause some problems but here goes. I have been to two different defensive gun training schools both teaching the Weaver Stance and I have noticed that on television and at the two IDPA matches I attended everyone shoots Isosceles Stance. Is anyone out there shooting IDPA Isosceles Stance, and there other training in the Weaver Stance? I am thinking of someone in law enforcement or former military that may have ran into this problem. The other problem I am running into is that I am left eye dominate and I have notice that if I tilt my pistol to the left to my left eye I shoot more accurately in the Weaver but if I use my right eye with the gun vertical position I am very inconsistent. I just discover this yesterday. I would love any suggestions or opinions. Last Edited By: kmaultsby 11/01/09 12:25:25. Edited 1 time.
gsbell		#1	[-]
Posts: 317 (10/31/09 14:08:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Not Mil or LEO but I believe the eye dominance issues are much less with a more neutral position like isosceles. It only takes a slight shift to align the dominate eye. Greg
Steve Koski		#2	[-]
Posts: 1054 (10/31/09 15:13:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Dittos to greg. Kmault: I shoot using a mostly isosceles position, even when I attend "hardcore weaver" training. If/when questioned, I look the instructor squarely in the eye and tell him that I've tried it their way before, and now I'm going to shoot it my way. This usually ends the discussion and they quit trying to convert me. Koski
RobMoore		#3	[-]
Posts: 520 (10/31/09 15:47:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I run into a lot of former military shooters coming through my training academy. We teach modern iso, they are used to weaver. What usually helps to convince them is having them blast off a quick magazine, watching them slowly drift off to the right, because the recoil is being almost solely absorbed on their right side (right handed weaver). Then I put them in the iso, and have them do the same thing. Then I ask them to tell me which one felt more stable from shot to shot. I normally don't have to argue the point after that.
kmaultsby		#4	[-]
Posts: 37 (11/01/09 12:33:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks everyone; I will practice it.
deerslayer		#5	[-]
Posts: 12 (12/05/09 13:13:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm a right eye dominant southpaw who used to shoot strictly weaver. I've drifted toward iso, but am still somewhere in between. My feet are closer to an iso stance, but I still have the bent legs of a weaver. The weaver always worked fine with my eye dominance issue--I just rotate my head slightly to the left (don't move the gun).

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