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What was the purpose of having the stock off to the side like this?
Just like people can be right or left handed people have a dominant eye. Shooters use this eye from aiming. For most people that will match their dominant hand, but a few are cross dominant (ex. Right handed but left eye dominant).
Being cross dominant makes shooting awkward because they're forced to choose to shoot with their dominant hand or dominant eye. This bent design would allow a right handed shooter to aim with their left dominant eye.
Yep, cross dominant here and it's so fucking annoying. Growing up took me a while to figure out, couldn't understand why I wanted to play lefty in hockey and lacrosse despite my right hand dominance in everything else. Shooting instructor in scout camp was the one who figured out I was left eye dominant and all of a sudden I was a much better shot than before.
Now I want one of these stocks!
Any advice on how to help someone with that experience get better at shooting? One of my kids is like that and I can't figure out what mechanics to teach for rifle and pistol.
Not cross dominant but pistol shooting should be pretty much the same, since you've got no stock.
As for rifles, I think your three options are pretty much shoot with the wrong eye (you'll want to closer the other one), shoot with the wrong hand, or see if someone makes some product that cantilevers your optic over for you.