How Important is the Dominate Eye?

[laddy]

I have found it is real hard to keep from flinching when spring turkey hunting.  Especially when I try to keep one eye on the spot and the other eye on the platoon of ticks that are racing for that hole in my only pair of camo pants.  Lightening is fast, but ticks are sneaky fast.

[Dave Worden]

I believe that if you're shooting instinctive, with the bow canted, eye domination is irrelevant (assuming that you keep both eyes open).  The real problems begin when you shoot with a vertical bow (olympic style) with or without sights.  If you're trying to line up the string with a non-dominant eye, you have to be absolutely sure that the dominant eye doesn't take over or you'll be off by a couple of feet (like freeman says, above).  If you are trying to shoot with only your non-dominant eye, unless you use a patch or some such device to prevent the dominant eye from taking over, every once in a while you're going to shoot a real clunker.

[Landr]

I started out shooting right handed and didn't give my left eye dominance much thought. I went to a hunter safety class where a retired police officer was an assistant teacher. He didn't shoot bows but recommend I go lefty and that was good enough for me. My high left groups started hitting the spot. I thought there would be a coordination problem, but it's not an issue at all. Picked up some nice used bows too. Most everything else is right handed for me-- except tossing a frisbee...!

[Gene Roberts]

Whatever feels natural.