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I went through the same thing! When I wanted to learn to shoot offside I started with a 38 that was shooting 100 gr bullets at around 600 fps. They recoil like a 22! Once I could shoot well with those I moved to 130 gr and then 148 gr. Then increased the velocity until I could nearly match right or left hand! I also found that those heavy padded slings they put you in after shoulder surgery make a great place to keep your gun! DRI'm 55 years old, been shooting my entire life, and just this year started to shoot with my off hand. I never thought I could do it as doing anything lefty felt so wrong. I can now get a good grip with the support hand as that hand wanted to take the main grip for a long time. I did a bunch of dry fire and drawing practice with two guns on me. I first got the left hand movements down then would switch back and forth to get some muscle memory built up. Yesterday I put 75 rounds of 45 acp through my Blackhawk revolver left handed. I have good days and bad days and yesterday was a bad day shooting leftie. I was on paper but no groups were forming. Right handed I was chewing up the bullseye.
I have only been practicing for a few months weak side and I am really happy with my progress. I have torn muscles in my shoulders that make things interesting at times. I decided I needed to get both hands shooting in case one shoulder gives out completely.
I have found the best way to get use to shooting a rifle on the non-dominant eye side is using a red dot sight forward on the receiver. Once the brain get use to it, iron sights and then scopes become easier to make the transition. I set my rifles up to be as mirror image as possible.I've practiced pistol and revolver off-side shooting, not regularly. Only to familiarize myself with the technique so it wouldn't seem so strange if by some chance I had to do it. As I've practiced firing double action with revolvers, but not extensively. At this point in my life, I don't expect to do emergency shooting at anything but closer ranges if at all. I can't say that I've seriously practiced shooting rifle off-sided, it just felt too awkward. Then there's the thing with eye dominance. Normally, I shoot with both eyes open. But no way does that work for me trying to shoot a long gun off-side. Then there's the fact that mechanical differences between right and left handed rifle actions are much more of a consideration than with handguns.