Shooting both right and left handed

[damascusdave]

I am starting to feel a bit the other way. With all these young pups around me shooting top end wheel bows I am kinda getting the urge to try my hand at that again.

Although I have shot rifle and handgun quite a bit both ways I have always been a southpaw with a shotgun (not that I could ever hit much with one at the best of times). Come to think of it I am not sure if I have ever fired a shotgun right handed. Gonna have to try that too.

For now I am gonna go out in my yard with my left handed Pearson and shoot a few arrows. Already chucked enough right handed before work and at lunch time.

[damascusdave]

Well here we are almost two years later and it seems like they are light years.

I have 4 compound bows now.

I have one long bow and another blank that I am working on.

I am a collector of things Bear, particularly 1960 Kodiaks.

I own 8 recurves that are in my possession.

I have one recurve still being built and 3 that are in various states of being shipped to me.

I can handle pretty much 55 pounds of draw weight either right or left handed.  

I have well over 600 posts on tradgang as well as some on both archerytalk and ***********.

Things can change a lot in two years, eh!

DDave

[damascusdave]

I forgot to mention that two of my compounds are rh and two are lh.

The longbows are a three piece take down with both lh and rh riser and the blank will be dual shelf.

3 of the recurves are lefties.

DDave

[ibehiking]

Dave; Your journey for the past two years sounds a lot like mine. I started with a RH compound from a pawn shop, then got a LH Bear Grizzly recurve. I found that I really like shooting arrows. :-)

 Now I have two compounds (LH and RH) and 10 LH recurves and 5 RH recurves.

I am LH and right eye dominant. I shoot the LH bows (recurves and compound) split finger and bare bow. I shoot the RH recurves barebow with a  release, and the RH compound with sights and a release.

I like the balance it gives to the muscles. I like using similar draw motions with the respective sides of the body.

I like the improved coordination I have gotten by learning to do fairly complex motions with both sides of my body. Even the simple act of nocking the arrow was intitially challegning but now feels very natural on both sides.

Whatever approach you take, enjoy the journey.

Jeff