Your senses are key to good shooting. All of them! Have you ever shot your gun with your eyes closed. You feel your grip on the gun then the action of the trigger. Familiarizing yourself with your gun can improve your time at the range. I first heard this and thought, “WHAT?” But after taking the time to experience the senses work it became a natural feel to it.
‘ALL THE TIME!’
I’ve been near sighted with some astigmatism and been wearing glasses all my life and was taught by my dad (former military) how to shoot since I was 10 years of age.
And have learned how to compensate for it. So I think this is good advice. Thanks for sharing
No, I’ve never even considered it
Nope. Never have.
I have a hard enough time keeping my eyes open. Now you want me to shoot with my eyes closed. Ok just one shot.
sadly a quiet morning… everything is blank for me.
Not in a space where I can watch the video right now so not sure what the person in it is trying to accomplish with eyes closed shooting. I have never live fired with my eyes closed. I do run dryfire drills where I look at the target, close my eyes, draw and present my pistol then open my eyes to see if my sights are on the target. When my eyes, ears and brain are all working together properly I am able to put the sights on the target with my eyes closed. When I am really on the ball I can even do this with some movement thrown in. Being able to do this properly makes me faster and more accurate with my eyes open. But it can take a lot of practice and some specific drills to get my senses to work together properly. Tiredness, stress, distraction or injury can get me off track.
The fancy term for this is proprioception. It is how your brain subconsciously maintains its awareness of where your body is in relation to the ground and all the other objects around you.
I highly recommend going through some of Mike Ox’s online classes if you want to learn more about this concept. He has several different classes that all focus on using a similar set of vision, balance and stress modulation drills to enhance shooting performance. It can seem a little silly at first but the drills have definitely improved my shooting performance as well as my sense of balance which took a major hit after my little medical event several years ago. Now my balance is a little better than it was before that event.
He is talking about closing one’s eyes so they can feel the trigger pull for better finger discipline to avoid flinch.
What? 
We always used to say - shoot with both eyes opened. 
Yeah…just kidding.
Yes, I do practice shooting with closesd eyes.
Mechanism of shooting is simple and easy, but we still miss… and that’s because shooting process contains mental part. Vision makes this part easy to accommodate in the process.
When we close the eyes, we shut down the easiness for the brain. Now you have to trust yourself.
Once you press the trigger you must feel where your bullet goes.
When you learn it and then practice you find out how much faster you shoot multiple shots in normal conditions, with open eyes.
The drill I’m using is very simple:
Plain sheet of paper with vertical line. You draw your pistol and aim in the middle of the line. Then you close your eyes and wiggle your upper body left and right five, six times. Still with closed eyes you position your pistol towards the line and take 5 shots within 2 seconds.
You analyze your target to find what’s wrong.
The goal is to be close to the line as possible, and no more than five inches spread up/down.
If you have the partner let him observe the target and then you try to guess what was the order.
Have fun, be better shooter 
Thanks for the verbal summation. I wish more folks would add them to their video posts since I am often in spaces where I can’t watch videos.
That is a bit different than the concept I was talking about. Though Mike Ox does have a stop the flinch class that works on the same principles he uses in his vision training and draw speed training classes. They sound somewhat similar in that you are working on improving your body’s other senses in order to improve performance.
I’ll have to try the eyes closed shooting at the range to focus specifically on the trigger press. Or look into getting a laser shot tracking app for dryfire practice at home.
Dry fire practice…. Granted, eyes open… and DRY FIRE!
Edit; I’d like to add that this is DRY FIRE,… and yes there would be a click In there if I could’ve uploaded it as a video instead of a gif….
The only live round IN THE ROOM was the one balancing on the front sight blade!
@Will_B …close your eyes… right now 
I’d also like to add,… that gif was shot with my left hand holding the phone, gun in the right hand….
And I had to focus on keeping the gun perfectly still and lined up with my eye, while trying to align the phone camera with my free floating off hand looking at the screen rather than the sight alignment and balance……
So that perfectly pulled trigger was done single handed while distracted.
I once tried to calm down a new student that was convinced she could not shoot the qualification for her CC License. So I shot the qualification with my eyes closed. 30 shots from 3,5,7 yards.
The whole class laughed, she relaxed, they all passed.
Dryfire practice with a live round in the same room😱 What if that round had jumped into your firearm and they both decided to go after someone against your own free will?!!!
Just kidding. Looks like great trigger control to me, especially while also balancing the camera! I usually try that drill with a dime or quarter though just in case my pistol gets any evil thoughts in its head😉 Not sure if that is easier or harder than with live round. Will have to try and see.
That was my practice,… until someone here suggested using a spent cartridge……
Which I tried,… and it wasn’t much harder than the coin….
Then I thought about the fact that a loaded cartridge is significantly top heavy,… and as such much harder to balance!
Just did a comparison test. My slightly shaky hands do make balancing the top heavy cartridge noticeably more difficult. But when I finally get the balance down and pull the trigger the coins often slide a hair, but remain on the sight, while the heavier bullet doesn’t move at all. This may be due to the lighter weight coins slightly reacting to the vibration of the springs and striker releasing more so than my trigger pull?
Closing my eyes did not seem to have any noticeable impact on the coin or cartridge during the trigger pull.
Closing the eyes never impacts single trigger pull.
It will, however, impact multiple trigger pulls.
The deal is to feel the gun coming back on target, every time you press the trigger. Not see it, feel it.
It wasn’t impacting multiple trigger pulls on my SIRT pistol. Though I could see it impacting alignment recovery after recoil. Will have to give it a live fire try.