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Eye dominance is a non-issue for pistol shooting guys.
The proof of this is all of the Tests that are used to determine eye dominance. The reason that your "thumb covers the spot" or your can "see the dot through the hole" when you use any of the Hand At Extension methods to determine eye dominance is because your brain automatically puts your hand/thumb/hole/whatever in front of your dominant eye. The same thing happens with your pistol as long you are over-thinking it and trying to do something on purpose.
With a Long Gun eye dominance is a very big deal because of the Stock being attached to your body. When the stock is against your torso, only one eye can actually be behind the sights/optics, if you have mounted the gun on the "strong" side with your "weak" eye, you will have a potentially harder time using the sights. If you have a significant difference in visual acuity, it might be worth mounting the gun on your "weak" side in front of the "strong" eye in some cases. The good news is that the four points of contact you get with a long gun (foregrip, trigger hand, butt of stock and cheek weld) can mitigate some of the lack of coordination you get from having your weaker hand as the primary control.
Unfortunately, the relevance of eye dominance in long gun shooting has ubiquitously been mis-applied to pistol shooters.
-RJP
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