My wife has a retinal detachment that makes shooting difficult. I taught her to aim with her left eye. She does better with the AR for the exact elevation reasons you mentioned.
I'm cross dominant but aim the rifle right eye.

Worse comes to worse get a laser.

 

Old Winchesters had a side mount. Maybe that would help. Practice depth perception w darts.

 

I would set up a scope on your AK. Nothing fancy, but I would use something like 3x9x50. The big sight picture should help you focus and train yourself to use your left eye.

 

Use a red dot preferably an EoTech and practice with it firing with both eyes open.

 

Go Reddot or learn left handed.
Learning to shoot left handed is just muscle memeroy.

 

Everyone should learn to shoot ambi, I was lucky when I was learning as I can write with both hands so it wasn't hard at all for me. It makes it a bit confusing for me as it is impossible for me to understand how hard it is to shoot from left handed to right handed.

 

In bootcamp I had to shoot left handed (long story) my D.I. got an eyepatch for me and made me wear it over my right eye so I could learn to focus with my left eye... it was a pain in the arse at first and my depth perception was nil, but it worked, I can now fire left-handed almost as well as I can right!

 

So just use side offset scope rings on your scopes.

 

Ken,

I'm in the same boat, different side. I'm a lefty and my left eye was damaged by "Optic Neuritis" The optic nerve swelled for some unknown reason and caused some damage. On a good day vision is 20-60, 20-70 on a bad.

Handgun, I switched to the right eye. It wasn't too difficult.
Rifle, I had to go at it right handed. I'm getting better.
Shotgun, Can't hit **** right handed and can't see **** left handed, good thing it's a scattergun.

I agree with GoodOlFroathyOne, try with bothe eyes open. I have enough for good depth perception. I can land an airplane.

It may be a good excuse for some more trigger time :thumb:

 

I recently switched from shooting left hand ot the right. It was for cross dominance reasons and I have a decent scratch of my left eye lens.

Just keep at it. Most folks say you should shoot more with your weak shoot hand. For now, just shoot bench and focus on the trigger hand. Once that feels good, start shooting offhand with it. Just some good old 22lr plinking. Just hitting a can or not hitting it is good for now. Sometimes paper can be fustrating. For this deer season, just do what you have been doing and worry about changes afterward.

 

Picked up a red dot for now. Was Pitching and took a line drive into the eye. Good bye right eye.

 

Get yourself a beater stock and slice the comb off. Dremel or carve it into a reverse comb. Think reverse of a Monte Carlo. If you slice it low enough....and be sure to keep test fitting it to your cheek to be sure....you'll be able to use your left eye. Once you get it right, consider doing it to your keeper stock, too.

Your prob's not common but it's not rare, either. You can fit pretty much any gun to anyone there is if you get creative enough.

rich

 

Up close or in low light, you might find a laser useful.
http://www.combathunting.com/AK47_AK74_MAC_MAADI-AK_Green_Laser_Sight.html

 

Depending on how much you want to spend, you're pretty much going to have to put a rail front end on the weapon.

Yes you will have some 'kentucky windage' and offset depending on how far you are shooting, but considering the work that was performed with the US Garand and an offset scope, it's just a matter of learning the offset.

The pricey version would include the Ultimak multirail forend and some sort of red-dot sight such as the 1" Millett.

Using those in conjunction with an offset flashlight mount designed for the 1" tactical lights such as the PAK mount and you'll get your left eye a heck of a lot closer than you'd normally be able.

You'll probably have to either lap the inside of the "rings" to get them to be truly tight and/or clean a little metal where the two halves meet to get 100% tightness but it does work.
I'd also probably change the easy-off screw on the mount out for a conventional allen head screw for security.

There are cheaper mounts available but the rigidity of them can be suspect.

If there's no other choices, a smith could fairly easily adapt and dovetail in a couple of offset sights