Dr. Richard Colo #1: Eye Doctor that has drawn both national and international shooters to his practice.

In the 46 years that Dr. Colo has been in practice in CT, he has created a unique specialty niche related to shooting that has drawn both national and international shooters to his practice. Rich has developed a system of dominance evaluation that has been accepted as the benchmark among some of the nation’s top instructors. His role is not that of shooting instructor; rather, it is to maximize the visual efficiency needed to complement proper shooting mechanics.

His passion for his profession and favorite avocation are infectious to all who seek his counsel.

Podcast Transcription:

Justin: On the show with me today, I have the one and only Dr. Colo and Dr. Colo is out of Connecticut. He is a sports vision specialist and if you have been in the sport long enough, really not even long enough, but just a time to hear someone talk about eyes, his name had to have come up in conversation, he has a lot of good information that I want him to share with you and I want to hear a lot of it myself. Also, on the line with me, I have Will Fennell, Will Fennell has Dr. Colo in. Will, what is it? Once or twice a year for a clinic at your place.

Will Fennell: Yeah, Covid has kind of knocked that back a little bit, but we try to get him down as often as we can and also, Dr. Colo has just been amazing, not only for my own shooting, my wife’s shooting and our eye situations and our prescriptions and our glasses, he’s a great resource that we lean on a lot of times when we get stumped with an issue, with somebody and their eyes or their vision issues and stuff. Doctor Colo has always been very gracious with his time and also very helpful to us, we’ll call him a lot of times from the field.

I think the folks in his office probably get a little PO’d at us, because he's always interrupting somebody else's appointment to take a phone call from me or Carlisle or Anthony or somebody, to try to figure out what's going on with somebody's eyes. So, he is a great asset and a good friend, and we really, really value his abilities to help us in this game. 

Justin: Well, that being said, welcome to the show Dr. Colo. 

Dr. Colo: Well, thank you very much. That's quite an introduction, I really appreciate it very much, guys. 

Justin: You know, I was thinking about having you on and when I was thinking about having an eye doctor, so to speak on the show with me, I instantly thought about one thing, and a lot of people will think about this one thing when they see that you're on the podcast and that is eye dominance, and the issue with eye dominance and is it a real thing, is it something that really affects you and can you really tell if your left eye or right eye dominant? I mean, there's so many questions that everyone has, especially me. I’m really glad you’re on and you can maybe clear some of this up for me

Will Fennell: Before doc even speaks, I’d like to say something about that. Guys, at the shooting school, we probably get two or three people a month who have thought for years that their eye dominance is, say left-eye dominant and it turns out they’re not, they’re truly right-eye dominant or a lot of times, it’s somewhere in the middle. A lot of the older tests that have been used in gun clubs for years and years and years are not very good tests, they’re very inconclusive, they make a shooter pick one eye or the other and Dr. Colo is the man that developed the definitive eye dominance test that we all use now, that really ascertain somebody’s, and I’ll let doc explain this term better, cyclopean position and through his help learning this, it has changed things dramatically for us on the coaching field.

Justin: Well, how about that. Can you use some smaller words, Will?

Will Fennell: I’ll try to stick with the small words, but doctor Colo i