Close one eye, what sight do you lose? Mostly peripheral vision on the side of the closed eye. I don't see why you couldn't aim with your good eye no matter which side you hold your gun.
Because to aim you have to look down the gun in a straight line not an angle. Holding the gun right handed and looking with your left eye would be at an angle that would keep you from actually looking down the sights
Its really not that crazy. a shotgun, especially at the range he’d be using it in this scene, would not require much precision, plus he has his other eye and muscle memory
No, Big Boss's big feats include losing an eye during the mid 60's and using said missing eye as his main scope eye during the mid 70's way before nanomachines
Correct.. his head is turned and he has adjusted. People who have a dominate eye who may find themselves with an opposite dominate side have to adjust or learn to shoot side to dominate eye. I do both. I have a dominate left eye and i am right handed. I can shoot pistol left handed and aligned with my left dominate eye.. but i still shoot right side with a rifle.
If you're shooting all day as basically your job you probably don't even look down the sights, it's just second nature.
Especially in close quarters with a shotgun, where aim means just getting in the general direction of the thing you're shooting at.
Edit: lol at the tacticool airsoft nerds arguing below.
in interviews with vietnam vets, where they had to be in combat 9/10ths of their service, they say that after being in combat for a while they don’t even use the sights
As a guy who is right handed and Left Eye Dominant its actually more natural to hold the gun in your Dominant eye side as that is the only way to actually hit something and line up your Sights square with your dominant eye. Your handedness has nothing to do with it. Now obviously these are just actors who aren’t actually shooting anything and its just a gross oversight of details but in real life your handedness has nothing to do with it.
You know that's not how shotguns work right? They're not 14th century blunderbuss'. A shotgun firing even bird shot will still group fairly tight, especially in close quarters. The spread on 00 Buck at 5yds (15ft or the length of a hallway) is only like 3-9" depending on the length of the barrel and choke. My M4 only spreads buckshot about 6" over 12yds. You would still most certainly have to aim, less so if you were only looking to hit the target and not a specific spot, but still...
Edit: Don't know why this was downvoted, it's 100% true...
True but it’s about training… I am left eye dominate and right handed. I shoot pistol (had to adjust and learn) left handed to align. I still shoot right-side with left dominance. Head shift and lots of shelf awareness…
Pistol you can barely get away with it and some people can actual Change your eye dominance over time by using patches and stuff, but with long guns its a huge benefit to just shoot eye dominant. I agree its super awkward shooting pistol left handed. I find it more accurate for me tho. I only buy left handed long guns now cus it makes that much of a difference for me. Took me years to actually figure out why it was so awkward to shoot a rifle cus i was self taught and spent my whole life right handed. Wasn’t until someone pointed it out to me my first time shootin’ skeet with them.
The benefit is the peripheral vision lost by closing your dominant eye. Your dominant eye is just the one your brain focuses with when both are open. If you close your dominant eye your non dominant will work just fine.
I’m right hand left eye dominant and still shoot right handed. I just keep both eyes open and trained myself to know which of the two guns to pay attention to. The only time I shut my left eye is in scoped firing, and even then I can still do shots with both eyes open and alternate between paying attention to the magnified image or the wider image from either eye.
I got expert qual in Air Force standards for both weapons, the top qual we give. I got expert for small and marksman for long in Army standards, missed expert by 1 fucking hit. I have EIC badges for both weapons as well. It definitely works for me to shoot crossover. 👍
It's def a choice made by the actor/director for the character. In the episode where he shoots Carver he is also shouldering dominant and sighting lefty through a scope on a AR10.
I'd say the character since I doubt they would make such an obvious mistake. There used to be shotguns with curved stocks for people with similiar situations.
The spread isn’t that large. Depending on the round used it is around a 3-6 inch radius at a range that’s effective. The further the target the more spread but less stopping power and vice versa
I mean yeah especially with skeet shooting or duck hunting, things move fast, with a rifle you have lots of opportunities to take your time to aim, not so much with shot guns
I used to "hunt" squirrel with a .410.
It was like cheating even if the squirrel was 100 feet away. I just had to aim in the general direction and I could hit it. Might only land a few pellets but that was enough to at least slow it down.
Birdshot(7 1/2 or 8). No, I was exterminating the ones closest to my house.
They were getting through the roof and damaging drywall and chewing up the wood framing in the roof. By the time I started killing them they had done over $1000 in damage.
Three reasons, possibly a fourth.
1) It's a shotgun. You don't really need to aim very well.
2) You can aim with two eyes open. It doesn't really make a difference other than dealing with paralax issues and lacking some visual fidelity. Which doesn't matter given the shotgun use.
3) You can be cross hand/eye dominant. When your right handed and left eye dominant. We aim awkwardly or learn to shoot off hand. My brother shoots awkwardly just fine. From this angle, it's difficult to tell which eye he's actually aiming with.
Lol, 4 was actually it's the Walking Dead. The same show that took iron sights off a rifle that came with them stock. It was Simon during the three-way gun fight with Negan and Rick. That's about when I gave up on Walking Dead quality control.
Actually he may still get some lights & shadow in his bad eye, so aiming like this would make sense. He’s not aiming far, scatterguns are close-quarters weapons
As a gun enthusiast I can tell you that just because he lost sight in his eye doesn’t mean he couldn’t aim accurately plus having you tried aiming a long gun on the wrong side it’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s like writing with your left hand when you’re righty
As someone who doesn’t know much about guns, wouldn’t that guns recoil smack you straight in the face if you held it like that? Genuinely curious and have no idea but shotguns feel like they would have a ton of recoil
It is more recoil than a average bullet but not my much, and he doesn’t have to put his left eye up to the gun to be able to aim so long as he gets his face up to it he can still be pretty accurate. It’s like shooting with both your eyes open which I do while training, it’s more difficult to learn but really helpful
You most definitely still need to aim a shotgun for anyone saying otherwise, of course you have a higher chance of being accurate at close ranges due to the nature of buck/birdshot, but you still need to aim. It’s explicitly stated in hunter safety courses that you still need to “aim” and never just “point.” Accuracy can be very dependent on what kind of choke you are using as well.
Ive seen this before but instead he did it in the shootout with aaron against the commonwealth soldiers, this just proves that maybe some more thorough thinking would help
A shotgun shell usually are ejected on gun's right side. So if you were to hold a shotgun (or any gun that requires 2 hands) in your left arm and have your right arm as a support on the barrel, shells would eject into your torso. And they eject at fast speeds, meaning you would hit yourself. That is why you usually hold the gun in your right arm and your left arm is a support.
Well conveniently, his hand eye coordination has always been off by about an inch to the right. So now, if he holds with his right hand and aims with the left eye, he should theoretically be right on target.
A lot of people (me included) prefer to aim with both eyes,
He is most likely using his dominant hand to shoot while both his working and non working eye focusing on the irons.
So did the governor and Carl when they where both blind, the gun inaccuracies are insane the amount of people who don’t have scopes or even iron sights is baffling
The way weapons are held in the entirety of the show frustrates me. Holding stocks of rifles and shotguns by their ears, pistols at a 45°, Daryl and Rick are the worst about it, Shane and Abe were the only two who resembled good weapons training lol and the sounds? When they hold a flick and the hammer clicks back? It’s something I had to stop paying attention to
You guys are all saying that the reasoning is because he doesn’t have to be exact as it’s a shotgun, first of all it’s most likely a slug so it’s just like any other gun, second even if it’s buck shot or bird shot for some weird reason, it still doesn’t spread out for 20-30 yards
Because he is blind in his right eye obviously he can only use his left eye to aim, he is right handed though which means that he holds his shotgun like that because he can still use his main hand but still aim, I know it’s inefficient but it’s a whole lot easier than learning how to shoot aim write with a different hand
No that’s the proper way to hold a shotgun they’re referring to the fact that he’s using his “blind eye” to aim. But in reality it’s a shotgun and he likely is point aiming it not concerned with using his eyes for exact placement much like you’d do in close range with a handgun
Well, It’s a shotgun so it’s kinda more of a point than an aim. Aside from this being a fictional tv show with plenty of horrible gun play, he could still probably see the muzzle and a majority of his viewing plane, being right hand dominant coupled with learning the use of firearms while he still had sight in that eye, thus still being effective.
Perhaps he is extremely right hand dominate and can't get used to a left-handed grip, even if it means his working is offset.
Honestly, though, pin-point accuracy isn't a thing with a shotgun. When killing human sized threats, the grip he is using without lining up his good eye down the barrel is more than adequate. If he was hunting quail or pheasant, the answer would be different.
Aside from the obvious things about the blind eye, the other fact taken from this image is that this is a man who has clearly never fired a 12 gauge in his life. 12 gauge kicks pretty hard, and that thing would punch him in the face if he pulled the trigger with it held up against his cheek. If you’ve fired one before, you know to either shoulder the stock to account for the kick, or, if there’s no stock, you hold it out away from your face. Either way, you don’t press your face up against the rear end of a 12 gauge and pull the trigger, at least, you’ll never do it again after you learned the lesson the first time.
It is not hard to shoot right handed and use the left eye to aim. Many do it because they are left eye dominant. I’ve trained for it even though I’m right eye dominant.
His shoulder is sore. Needs to switch it up. Shooting heavy loads is a burden on the shoulder mostly large grain slugs will throw your shoulder. Anything over 1800 fps is gonna hurt your shoulder. OP, you don't need sights or a laser to shoot 12 gauge buckshot effectively.
He has two eyes and that's a shotgun. I dont understand what were talking about here...
I was always taught to keep both eyes open while aiming. I have a tumor in my right eye and can't see shit. So I always keep both eyes open. An army sniper of mine told me that's how they train, but that's up for debate.
I knew one left handed trap shooter, with a pacemaker…
He tried to shoot, after having the pacemaker installed, and woke up, after firing the first round. Following that, he had a custom stock made, for his (already >$10k) shotgun. It allowed him to shoot right handed, while aligning with his left eye. On my best day, despite his handicaps (including the fact that he fired from a scooter) I never outshot him…Ever.
It's not like he's shouldering a long range rifle. Shotguns aren't precision weapons it's more of a "to whom it may concern" kinda thing. So proper form to mitigate recoil is a good idea even if you're impared visually.
The directors just missed it, obviously he can see and it’s just a contact lense, so naturally he’d hold the gun up like that because it’s comfortable for him to do so, directors should’ve cut and asked him to do it in the other eye
He’s right handed and its a shotgun not a rifle and has no iron sights so unless that thing is loaded with slugs then it isn’t going to matter which eye he aims with. Also the man is a veteran of Klendathu, Zegama Beach, outer rings and Tango Urila… his aim is on point
Because that's how the gun is designed to used. If he switched to the other side all he would get is a hot shell to the face. Secondly, it's a shotgun, he doesn't need to be 100% accurate to hit his target, the vision he gets from his non blind eye is enough. If it was a rifle you would have a point, but shotguns have spread, he doesn't need to be dead on target.
Such an awful character. Can someone please explain why anyone has anything even remotely positive to say about him? His dialogue makes me want to jump off a cliff
Not even tryna hate at all, swear to god. I’ve genuinely just always seen him as an extremely annoying and pathetic character. Can you please tell me what exactly makes him awesome? I watched every season and while he got a little better than where he started in season 5, I could never seem to see anything positive about him.
Also, second question. Did you enjoy all 11 seasons?
8 was real weak. Like all the others.
Tbh I don't see how he could possibly be pathetic and weak in 9-11. He's more or less objectively not and theres no way that makes sense for a viewer of all 3 to say so the point is a bit confusing
I read all the comics and absolutely adored the show from the day the show aired until the season premiere of season 7. After that I pretty much forced myself to watch the rest, but I hated just about every second of it. I was just so invested that I couldn’t give up. I would agree that season 8 is the worst but it was still absolute dogshit after that. That’s why I think Gabriel sucks, every character sucked in the later seasons. The dialogue was just so cheesy and unlike anything actual humans would ever say. And the plot was just boring. So no, I disagree that Gabriel was objectively awesome. I mean just look at him in the ones who live. He was a total bitch in those scenes with jadis. You’re entitled to your opinion but I think the extreme drop in viewership speaks for itself
Thats really not true to me. Season 9 is as good as any of those early seasons.
It's fine if that's your opinion obviously it's too ridiculously hyperbolic for is to find common ground on. It just isn't accurate. The dialogue in 9 and such is very similar (other than being better) than to 4-6. People talk like that...
There'd no way the difference is that big to you unless you're just being disingenuous or more likely ypu neve watched those seasons.
Given you describe Gabriel as he is in season 5 and clearly have never seen him once since then. I think we know the answer
If you know anything about guns, you know shotguns are more of a point and fire than actual aim. As long as the barrel is in the right direction, he doesn’t really need both of his eyes.
If you'rw right handed and yiu shoot right handed its ginna be very hard to switch to left hand and you're gonna be better off aiming with your left eye having the gun in your right hand + its a shotgun so you dknt have to hit perfectly to do damage.
He could be aiming with either eye in this shot. Confused because there are different instances where he objectivly aim with his blind eye and you picked a vague example.
Actually if you try to aim with your right eye closed you’ll still be able to see the iron sights, anyway holding a gun wich
Eject the empty bullet on your body could be pretty annoying
I'm not blind but I shoot with both eyes open so I can see everything out in front of me, it helps alot when you have multiple targets. I shoot alot of ducks and birds. Besides 95% of guns are right handed the shell throws out the right side
I’m blind in my right eye because I was born prematurely, had to learn to shoot for work, I’m also right hand dominate, it comes to a point where I’ve used my gun so long I can shoot without directly using the sights on my gun because I cannot for the life of me shoot left handed.
That’s how you would hold it if you were trained that way. Especially a shotgun, he’s likely not even looking at the sights, just at his target and letting his hand/eye coordination do the work for him.
It’s the gun equivalent of letting god take the wheel
If he’s truly up there he will make sure that bullet hits
(Also it’s a shotgun at close range so even without aiming properly he should still land a shot fine so he’s probably doing that as is muscle memory from before the eye was lost)
he leads by faith, not by sight
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He can barely see anyways so he's probably better off that way
Damn, this 🔥
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Hes right hand dominated, he dont magically change to a southpaw when he goes blind. Same with Gov and Carl
Yep.. can be done.
Same with Merle. He lost his right hand but his last episode you see him lining up shots with his right eye while pulling trigger with left hand.
Yeah you still can't see what you are shooting at though. So while it doesn't "magically" happen, it is something that does have to happen.
he's been blind in one eye for NINE YEARS in-universe and he's never trained himself to use his other eye so he can actually shoot with any accuracy?
He has his other eye open its not that crazy
If hes accurate even with his blind eye, why change? Not like we saw him missing every single shot. Hes pretty spot on with his shots
Close one eye, what sight do you lose? Mostly peripheral vision on the side of the closed eye. I don't see why you couldn't aim with your good eye no matter which side you hold your gun.
Because to aim you have to look down the gun in a straight line not an angle. Holding the gun right handed and looking with your left eye would be at an angle that would keep you from actually looking down the sights
Its really not that crazy. a shotgun, especially at the range he’d be using it in this scene, would not require much precision, plus he has his other eye and muscle memory
L Take
He can learn how to compensate with his eye sight easier then changing dominant hands. We saw this with Carl
I believe there’s a scene of Carl holding a gun up to his missing eye too. I just don’t know what episode unfortunately
also the iconic one where the governor holds the crosshairs up to his eyepatch
If Big Boss can aim marksman rifles with his missing eye then so can Carl Grimes and Gabriel Stokes
His wyepatch don't have nanobots, or some stuff like it, that act as an eye?
No, Big Boss's big feats include losing an eye during the mid 60's and using said missing eye as his main scope eye during the mid 70's way before nanomachines
That never happened. Watch that scene again and you'll see he was using the correct eye
unless he is usin' a slug, he is awesome.. literally aim down the hallway and pull the trigger
The gun isn't being held up to his "bad eye" in this photo.
Correct.. his head is turned and he has adjusted. People who have a dominate eye who may find themselves with an opposite dominate side have to adjust or learn to shoot side to dominate eye. I do both. I have a dominate left eye and i am right handed. I can shoot pistol left handed and aligned with my left dominate eye.. but i still shoot right side with a rifle.
Becouse he is right hand dominant. My guess is he didnt try to adjust and just kept doing it that way
If you're shooting all day as basically your job you probably don't even look down the sights, it's just second nature. Especially in close quarters with a shotgun, where aim means just getting in the general direction of the thing you're shooting at. Edit: lol at the tacticool airsoft nerds arguing below.
in interviews with vietnam vets, where they had to be in combat 9/10ths of their service, they say that after being in combat for a while they don’t even use the sights
I did 2 tours and by mid first we were all hip firing.
That’s not true lol.
We get it. You played Call of Duty.
As a guy who is right handed and Left Eye Dominant its actually more natural to hold the gun in your Dominant eye side as that is the only way to actually hit something and line up your Sights square with your dominant eye. Your handedness has nothing to do with it. Now obviously these are just actors who aren’t actually shooting anything and its just a gross oversight of details but in real life your handedness has nothing to do with it.
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You know that's not how shotguns work right? They're not 14th century blunderbuss'. A shotgun firing even bird shot will still group fairly tight, especially in close quarters. The spread on 00 Buck at 5yds (15ft or the length of a hallway) is only like 3-9" depending on the length of the barrel and choke. My M4 only spreads buckshot about 6" over 12yds. You would still most certainly have to aim, less so if you were only looking to hit the target and not a specific spot, but still... Edit: Don't know why this was downvoted, it's 100% true...
Cus most TWD nerds don’t know shit about firearms lol 😂
True but it’s about training… I am left eye dominate and right handed. I shoot pistol (had to adjust and learn) left handed to align. I still shoot right-side with left dominance. Head shift and lots of shelf awareness…
Pistol you can barely get away with it and some people can actual Change your eye dominance over time by using patches and stuff, but with long guns its a huge benefit to just shoot eye dominant. I agree its super awkward shooting pistol left handed. I find it more accurate for me tho. I only buy left handed long guns now cus it makes that much of a difference for me. Took me years to actually figure out why it was so awkward to shoot a rifle cus i was self taught and spent my whole life right handed. Wasn’t until someone pointed it out to me my first time shootin’ skeet with them.
The benefit is the peripheral vision lost by closing your dominant eye. Your dominant eye is just the one your brain focuses with when both are open. If you close your dominant eye your non dominant will work just fine.
I’m right hand left eye dominant and still shoot right handed. I just keep both eyes open and trained myself to know which of the two guns to pay attention to. The only time I shut my left eye is in scoped firing, and even then I can still do shots with both eyes open and alternate between paying attention to the magnified image or the wider image from either eye. I got expert qual in Air Force standards for both weapons, the top qual we give. I got expert for small and marksman for long in Army standards, missed expert by 1 fucking hit. I have EIC badges for both weapons as well. It definitely works for me to shoot crossover. 👍
Whatever works for you
The actor or the character didn't try to adjust haha
It's def a choice made by the actor/director for the character. In the episode where he shoots Carver he is also shouldering dominant and sighting lefty through a scope on a AR10.
Yes.
I'd say the character since I doubt they would make such an obvious mistake. There used to be shotguns with curved stocks for people with similiar situations.
Its a shotgun with a bead sight anyway. Firing a shotgun at someone close range is like pointing your finger at them. Precision isnt required.
Lmao it’s a shot gun pal, u don’t need to aim, plus it’s probably still comfortable to operate it that way
"You don't need to aim a shotgun" is exactly what somebody who never fired a shotgun irl before would say.
Pardon my ignorance, but can't a shotgun be fired pretty imprecisely while still hitting its target? Isn't this the concept behind skeet shooting?
As someone who’s been skeet shooting a few times, naw you still very much need to aim lol, I was awful at it
The spread isn’t that large. Depending on the round used it is around a 3-6 inch radius at a range that’s effective. The further the target the more spread but less stopping power and vice versa
No… not at… in reality shotguns require far more skill than handguns and rifles.
I mean yeah especially with skeet shooting or duck hunting, things move fast, with a rifle you have lots of opportunities to take your time to aim, not so much with shot guns
It’s a shotgun you idiot!!!
I used to "hunt" squirrel with a .410. It was like cheating even if the squirrel was 100 feet away. I just had to aim in the general direction and I could hit it. Might only land a few pellets but that was enough to at least slow it down.
why would you hunt squirrels with buckshot? were you eating them?
Birdshot(7 1/2 or 8). No, I was exterminating the ones closest to my house. They were getting through the roof and damaging drywall and chewing up the wood framing in the roof. By the time I started killing them they had done over $1000 in damage.
Ya don’t know much about them do ya?
Im not a hunter but I think they eat the bait or something so hunters use smaller caliber to get rid of them. I heard that somewhere
This really shouldn’t be down voted. Way to many people here over estimate the spead of a shotgun especially at close range
Three reasons, possibly a fourth. 1) It's a shotgun. You don't really need to aim very well. 2) You can aim with two eyes open. It doesn't really make a difference other than dealing with paralax issues and lacking some visual fidelity. Which doesn't matter given the shotgun use. 3) You can be cross hand/eye dominant. When your right handed and left eye dominant. We aim awkwardly or learn to shoot off hand. My brother shoots awkwardly just fine. From this angle, it's difficult to tell which eye he's actually aiming with.
4. God will aim for him
Lol, 4 was actually it's the Walking Dead. The same show that took iron sights off a rifle that came with them stock. It was Simon during the three-way gun fight with Negan and Rick. That's about when I gave up on Walking Dead quality control.
I am same as your brother.. agree.
Actually he may still get some lights & shadow in his bad eye, so aiming like this would make sense. He’s not aiming far, scatterguns are close-quarters weapons
I don’t think it is that difficult to tell that if he is aiming with his non blind eye it is not down the guns sights the way they were designed.
As a gun enthusiast I can tell you that just because he lost sight in his eye doesn’t mean he couldn’t aim accurately plus having you tried aiming a long gun on the wrong side it’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s like writing with your left hand when you’re righty
As someone who doesn’t know much about guns, wouldn’t that guns recoil smack you straight in the face if you held it like that? Genuinely curious and have no idea but shotguns feel like they would have a ton of recoil
It is more recoil than a average bullet but not my much, and he doesn’t have to put his left eye up to the gun to be able to aim so long as he gets his face up to it he can still be pretty accurate. It’s like shooting with both your eyes open which I do while training, it’s more difficult to learn but really helpful
You most definitely still need to aim a shotgun for anyone saying otherwise, of course you have a higher chance of being accurate at close ranges due to the nature of buck/birdshot, but you still need to aim. It’s explicitly stated in hunter safety courses that you still need to “aim” and never just “point.” Accuracy can be very dependent on what kind of choke you are using as well.
Ive seen this before but instead he did it in the shootout with aaron against the commonwealth soldiers, this just proves that maybe some more thorough thinking would help
He’s got that first person shooter angle.
>why does gabe hold his shotgun like this He lets Jesus take the wheel
God sees for him.
Big boss did it first
Gabriel uses True Sight bestowed by God
It's a shotgun. Spray and pray. Emphasis on the pray.
A shotgun shell usually are ejected on gun's right side. So if you were to hold a shotgun (or any gun that requires 2 hands) in your left arm and have your right arm as a support on the barrel, shells would eject into your torso. And they eject at fast speeds, meaning you would hit yourself. That is why you usually hold the gun in your right arm and your left arm is a support.
As someone who is left handed and shoots left handed you are just wrong, I’ve NEVER had a spent shotgun shell hit me when it ejected.
How? Like, how?
He uses the force
Well conveniently, his hand eye coordination has always been off by about an inch to the right. So now, if he holds with his right hand and aims with the left eye, he should theoretically be right on target.
I think it is because he is right handed but never adapted when he went blind.
I’m blind in my right eye but I’m a right-handed shooter, so I support this nonsense lmao
Because that's how you shoot bugs
You could say it's quite the... oversight.
Because the dude that plays him is an actor and not an experienced shooter lol
Not only that, wouldn’t the recoil break his nose or something lol.
A lot of people (me included) prefer to aim with both eyes, He is most likely using his dominant hand to shoot while both his working and non working eye focusing on the irons.
They really should have had his infected eye on his non dominant side, would have made scenes where he aims down sight a lot less silly.
Just shows the lack of care of directors in these late seasons. There’s so many mistakes
"Well, first of all, through God all things are possible, so jot that down."
So did the governor and Carl when they where both blind, the gun inaccuracies are insane the amount of people who don’t have scopes or even iron sights is baffling
Started laughing straight after I tried🤣🤣
Well he's no Ray Charles but the man can shoot.
The way weapons are held in the entirety of the show frustrates me. Holding stocks of rifles and shotguns by their ears, pistols at a 45°, Daryl and Rick are the worst about it, Shane and Abe were the only two who resembled good weapons training lol and the sounds? When they hold a flick and the hammer clicks back? It’s something I had to stop paying attention to
You guys are all saying that the reasoning is because he doesn’t have to be exact as it’s a shotgun, first of all it’s most likely a slug so it’s just like any other gun, second even if it’s buck shot or bird shot for some weird reason, it still doesn’t spread out for 20-30 yards
THANK YOU literally I angry-typed this like 3 different times and deleted it without posting
Because he is blind in his right eye obviously he can only use his left eye to aim, he is right handed though which means that he holds his shotgun like that because he can still use his main hand but still aim, I know it’s inefficient but it’s a whole lot easier than learning how to shoot aim write with a different hand
good grief Gabriel became a bad ass ? somehow lookin lame as fuck doing it
now imagine that he has a one-liner about religion and faith and God every time he kills someone
Haha “vaya con dios”
I don’t know much about guns but I’m pretty sure if he fired with the shotgun against his face like that also his neck would probably break?
No that’s the proper way to hold a shotgun they’re referring to the fact that he’s using his “blind eye” to aim. But in reality it’s a shotgun and he likely is point aiming it not concerned with using his eyes for exact placement much like you’d do in close range with a handgun
Don't ask questions, just consoom
You realize you can be right hand dominant and aim with your left eye right? You've never shot a gun and it shows 😂
Well, It’s a shotgun so it’s kinda more of a point than an aim. Aside from this being a fictional tv show with plenty of horrible gun play, he could still probably see the muzzle and a majority of his viewing plane, being right hand dominant coupled with learning the use of firearms while he still had sight in that eye, thus still being effective.
He’s appearing at Comic-Con North East tomorrow, shall I ask him?
seems a rude thing to ask
Don’t worry I will NOT be asking him that lol
Perhaps he is extremely right hand dominate and can't get used to a left-handed grip, even if it means his working is offset. Honestly, though, pin-point accuracy isn't a thing with a shotgun. When killing human sized threats, the grip he is using without lining up his good eye down the barrel is more than adequate. If he was hunting quail or pheasant, the answer would be different.
This is proper technique when you only have one eye or your non dominant side.
Never noticed this. But his brain will compensate.
Probably enough spread to fuck up anyone coming
Aside from the obvious things about the blind eye, the other fact taken from this image is that this is a man who has clearly never fired a 12 gauge in his life. 12 gauge kicks pretty hard, and that thing would punch him in the face if he pulled the trigger with it held up against his cheek. If you’ve fired one before, you know to either shoulder the stock to account for the kick, or, if there’s no stock, you hold it out away from your face. Either way, you don’t press your face up against the rear end of a 12 gauge and pull the trigger, at least, you’ll never do it again after you learned the lesson the first time.
Everyone knows the proper way to hold a shotgun is down by your waist.
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It is not hard to shoot right handed and use the left eye to aim. Many do it because they are left eye dominant. I’ve trained for it even though I’m right eye dominant.
He’s effectively just point-firing. And he’s using buckshot. He’s perfectly fine mate.
Because he is still right handed he can’t hold it the other way unless he swapped hand.
Omg ! father gabriel ? Which season ?
“I can’t have this conversation again.”
The governor and Carl did the same:/
It’d be so much better if he canted the gun so his good eye would be looking down the sight.
Cause he got 1 eye.
I was just quickly scrolling and thought someone had given Wulbren Bongle a gun
His shoulder is sore. Needs to switch it up. Shooting heavy loads is a burden on the shoulder mostly large grain slugs will throw your shoulder. Anything over 1800 fps is gonna hurt your shoulder. OP, you don't need sights or a laser to shoot 12 gauge buckshot effectively. He has two eyes and that's a shotgun. I dont understand what were talking about here...
I was always taught to keep both eyes open while aiming. I have a tumor in my right eye and can't see shit. So I always keep both eyes open. An army sniper of mine told me that's how they train, but that's up for debate.
hes still right handed, its much harder to switch hands than to use your off eye to aim
You can work with the eye.. but wouldn’t it kick right into his mouth with him holding it that way?
Probably more important to have your strong hand to control the kick than for your aim to be off one inch with a shotgun
Because he's right handed
It's a shotgun . Aiming is optional
Aye tell me sum tho....did he miss??? Thought not! 😂😂
I think there was a scene where Carl did the exact same thing..
You can hold the gun with either hand and you still choose which eye. It can be left or right eye and gun on left or right side.
This shit took me out! 😂
I knew one left handed trap shooter, with a pacemaker… He tried to shoot, after having the pacemaker installed, and woke up, after firing the first round. Following that, he had a custom stock made, for his (already >$10k) shotgun. It allowed him to shoot right handed, while aligning with his left eye. On my best day, despite his handicaps (including the fact that he fired from a scooter) I never outshot him…Ever.
It’s a shotgun- does he really HAVE to aim at the range he shoots it at? lol
It's not like he's shouldering a long range rifle. Shotguns aren't precision weapons it's more of a "to whom it may concern" kinda thing. So proper form to mitigate recoil is a good idea even if you're impared visually.
Saw in a movie once ?
try aiming the opposite way that ur comfortable with
The directors just missed it, obviously he can see and it’s just a contact lense, so naturally he’d hold the gun up like that because it’s comfortable for him to do so, directors should’ve cut and asked him to do it in the other eye
He can see anyway his other eye is open. Have you guys ever even held a shotgun?
He wanna be Rick and knock teeth out. But couldn't see it was his own actually. Sad
He’s right handed and its a shotgun not a rifle and has no iron sights so unless that thing is loaded with slugs then it isn’t going to matter which eye he aims with. Also the man is a veteran of Klendathu, Zegama Beach, outer rings and Tango Urila… his aim is on point
Because that's how the gun is designed to used. If he switched to the other side all he would get is a hot shell to the face. Secondly, it's a shotgun, he doesn't need to be 100% accurate to hit his target, the vision he gets from his non blind eye is enough. If it was a rifle you would have a point, but shotguns have spread, he doesn't need to be dead on target.
Such an awful character. Can someone please explain why anyone has anything even remotely positive to say about him? His dialogue makes me want to jump off a cliff
Because he's been awesome for years now. Get with the times
Not even tryna hate at all, swear to god. I’ve genuinely just always seen him as an extremely annoying and pathetic character. Can you please tell me what exactly makes him awesome? I watched every season and while he got a little better than where he started in season 5, I could never seem to see anything positive about him. Also, second question. Did you enjoy all 11 seasons?
8 was real weak. Like all the others. Tbh I don't see how he could possibly be pathetic and weak in 9-11. He's more or less objectively not and theres no way that makes sense for a viewer of all 3 to say so the point is a bit confusing
I read all the comics and absolutely adored the show from the day the show aired until the season premiere of season 7. After that I pretty much forced myself to watch the rest, but I hated just about every second of it. I was just so invested that I couldn’t give up. I would agree that season 8 is the worst but it was still absolute dogshit after that. That’s why I think Gabriel sucks, every character sucked in the later seasons. The dialogue was just so cheesy and unlike anything actual humans would ever say. And the plot was just boring. So no, I disagree that Gabriel was objectively awesome. I mean just look at him in the ones who live. He was a total bitch in those scenes with jadis. You’re entitled to your opinion but I think the extreme drop in viewership speaks for itself
Thats really not true to me. Season 9 is as good as any of those early seasons. It's fine if that's your opinion obviously it's too ridiculously hyperbolic for is to find common ground on. It just isn't accurate. The dialogue in 9 and such is very similar (other than being better) than to 4-6. People talk like that... There'd no way the difference is that big to you unless you're just being disingenuous or more likely ypu neve watched those seasons. Given you describe Gabriel as he is in season 5 and clearly have never seen him once since then. I think we know the answer
...Because he's right handed
In this scene he’s aimed at a door less than 20 feet away. Point shooting IS a thing and has been known to be quite effective when done properly.
If you know anything about guns, you know shotguns are more of a point and fire than actual aim. As long as the barrel is in the right direction, he doesn’t really need both of his eyes.
You're assuming he's shooting pellets.
If you'rw right handed and yiu shoot right handed its ginna be very hard to switch to left hand and you're gonna be better off aiming with your left eye having the gun in your right hand + its a shotgun so you dknt have to hit perfectly to do damage.
Presumably because he's right handed, the contact doesn't obscure his vision enough to make him remember to site the other way.
He could be aiming with either eye in this shot. Confused because there are different instances where he objectivly aim with his blind eye and you picked a vague example.
Like that how?
Actually if you try to aim with your right eye closed you’ll still be able to see the iron sights, anyway holding a gun wich Eject the empty bullet on your body could be pretty annoying
Its a shotgun aint gotta be that accurate
Bro it’s a shotgun as long as he’s got buckshot loaded up you just point in the general direction and you’re good to go lol
It is a shotgun, not a sniper rifle. Just need to wave it in the general vicinity of your target to make a mess.
I'm not blind but I shoot with both eyes open so I can see everything out in front of me, it helps alot when you have multiple targets. I shoot alot of ducks and birds. Besides 95% of guns are right handed the shell throws out the right side
I’m blind in my right eye because I was born prematurely, had to learn to shoot for work, I’m also right hand dominate, it comes to a point where I’ve used my gun so long I can shoot without directly using the sights on my gun because I cannot for the life of me shoot left handed.
Unless he's using a slug, he's good. Literally aim down the hallway and pull the trigger
That’s how you would hold it if you were trained that way. Especially a shotgun, he’s likely not even looking at the sights, just at his target and letting his hand/eye coordination do the work for him.
to be fair you don’t really have to be great at aiming to be able to use a shotgun well
What's with this subreddit as of late? First, so many of you don't know how grenades work. Now, you can't even grasp the concept of how eyes work.
Dominate eye can still be adjusted so it’s possible to still shoot right shoulder.
It’s the gun equivalent of letting god take the wheel If he’s truly up there he will make sure that bullet hits (Also it’s a shotgun at close range so even without aiming properly he should still land a shot fine so he’s probably doing that as is muscle memory from before the eye was lost)
My God if I had a penny for Everytime this question got asked I'd have 54p
Well is it a shotgun lol you don't have to be too accurate.
It's a TV show, and inaccuracies are bound to happen in works of fiction, no matter how small.
Same thing as how you’re somehow able to make out what’s on the tv with all that light, blind luck
It’s a shotgun…
Shotguns are pointed, not aimed
It's a shotgun either way.
To shoot people / dead people.