Who out there shoots both sides.......right and left handed

[slowbowjoe]

I really should start shooting left handed for balance... my right side has had too many injuries (not shooting related), and  is sometimes "out of order".
Any recommendations for an inexpensive dual shelf? Not custom built, but an older production bow? Bear Alaskan? Figure something light (30-35) to start.

[Tim Finley]

Because of my brain my left hand is pretty worthless , but I can shoot a bow left handed, I just have a hard time nocking my arrow . I always thought about making a dual shelf bow it might be handy sometime  !

[pavan]

My first duo shooter was a prime piece of pignut hickory, $12 to my door.  I believe very straight grained and very dry pignut is better than shagbark.  Mine, a 64" flat limb tiller, shoots about as good as any longbow.  I boosted the grip to make more of a Hill style grip, I also reduced the width to 7/8" at the arrow rests.  It has been reduced and flattened, it is now about 64@26 and likes 50-55 cedar arrows.  I am going to burnish the back  to take some set out of it and take it down about 10 pounds this spring.  I realized the advantage when one day a buck was coming on my wrong side.  i reached in my pocket for my cordovan tab, rolled the arrow over and shot the buck left handed.  I have been using only duo shooters as my go to hunting bows for a number of years a JD Berry and Sunset Hill.  I often still hunt left or right handed, but then switch when i find a perfect place to sit that is better for the other hand.  One needs to do their best shooting with the exact same form with both hands, often what 'feels like' and what 'is' are not the same.  A video camera can come in handy for that.

[Terry Green]

I have a dual.shelf Sunbear longbow that I  love shooting both sides.

[hitman]

I do.

[Benoli]

I'm a right hand shooter but can, not well, shoot left handed. A while back I was having a tuff time concentrating and was in a rut so I picked up a left handed recurve and shot it for a while. What it did was to force me to concentrate on the basics and get back into a groove. So from time to time when I start getting sloppy I'll shoot a couple of days as a lefty. I really think it helps me be a better shooter with my right.

[mb bowman]

I can, but prefer left hand since my eye dominance is left.

[kat]

I was strictly a right handed shooter, and then had an injury to my right eye. The sight was not good in that eye, and shooting was out. My left eye naturally became my dominant eye, and I started shooting lefty.
Fast forward eight years, and I had cataract surgery which brought the right eye back to 20/50. Plenty good enough to shoot right handed again.
Knowing then, what I know now, I would have started shooting with both hands without the injury. It is just plain fun, and  it does balance out your muscles, and heck, it was a great excuse to buy more bows for the other side.
It is a fun challenge, and if you were thinking about it; my advice is go for it.

[huntmaster70]

Ken, I think with the way you shoot (either left or right) you should close both eyes to give us other guys a chance!

[ron w]