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Author Topic: Left hand/right hand,who does both?  (Read 599 times)

Offline Jerry Jeffer

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2012, 10:39:00 PM »
I had a dual shelf bow made this past year. Been shooting both hands since the end of winter. Think I'll be ready for a shot at a deer by hunting season.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2012, 06:54:00 AM »
I'm RH but Left eye dominant as well. I shot RH for 28 years and have shot LH since 1996. I can shoot RH but I don't any longer.

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2012, 06:32:00 PM »
Shoot both ways. Started shooting Right Hand a few years back to try more bows.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2012, 06:40:00 PM »
I have been teaching myself to shoot right handed lately.  I'm a lefty, but being a lefty in a righty world means you're pretty close to ambi anyway.  I've gotten fairly decent out to twelve yards or so.  I wouldn't try a shot at a game animal right handed yet, but I expect by the time the season rolls around I'll be competant at short ranges if I get the chance.  My next couple selfbows I'm working on will be either dual shelved or shot off the knuckle.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2012, 10:45:00 PM »
shooting lefty and righty for the past 35 years..when I started at age 6 I didnt know better as I had no one to learn from..didnt know I was left eyed dominant but by the time I was 20years old  I can shoot both hands equally well but I choose to shoot lefty as injurys more or less determine that now days..but ocassionaly I will pull out a righty and shoot..just practice and after awhile it would become second nature
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2012, 10:59:00 PM »
I shoot both rh & lh, I am rh eye dominate and am more comfortable rh but I shoot lh almost as well just feels a little awakward. I just had Steve Turay build me a dual shelf Ottawa which I love. Like Bladepeek I will shoot a dozen rh then switch up and shoot a dozen lh.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2012, 11:06:00 PM »
Outside of the bows I teach with I usually stick with my right handed gear but I do wish I had a hunting bow that was a dual & I had become more proficient with it.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2012, 08:09:00 AM »
I hunt righty only as I'm most confident that way, but switch back and forth when practicing.  A dual shelf bow may be in my future!

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #28 on: July 05, 2012, 09:51:00 AM »
I can shoot either way, what I found surprising is that you have to HUNT right or left handed. Meaning than your stands and blinds don't always work for left handed shooting and vice versa. I had to redo some stands and set up "across the trail" or around the other side of trees. Once I got that figured tho, it's nice to be able to do either.

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #29 on: July 05, 2012, 04:43:00 PM »
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I have enough issues R/H!!    :help:  
I agree.  I'm left handed and while I could probably shoot right handed and hit a barn from the inside, I'm not sure which wall it would be!

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #30 on: July 06, 2012, 09:41:00 AM »
I can miss equally with either hand.

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #31 on: July 06, 2012, 11:00:00 AM »
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I can miss equally with either hand.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #32 on: July 06, 2012, 06:08:00 PM »
I shoot lefty and righty, BW 52# LH and RH BW 47#.
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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #33 on: July 06, 2012, 08:30:00 PM »
i shoot both sides, I started because of a finger injury. Went back to right hand heavy bows and quickly heated up a joint on a different finger, so for now again I am back to being mostly left handed.  The switching was nothing for me, since I am ambidextrous and do not have a dominant eye. however, with two identical bows I have a half inch longer draw right handed than left handed, so somewhere somehow I am not quite the same size left versus right.

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Re: Left hand/right hand,who does both?
« Reply #34 on: July 06, 2012, 10:51:00 PM »
I shoot both and would like to get one bow that I could shoot both off of.

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