How many have made the change right to left

[ron w]

I have a couple of dual shelf bows and have been messing around shooting left handed. I have shot right hand since I was 10 years old, 63 now. I just want to be able to shoot both for the fun of it and to keep my physical attributes equal. I just put together an ILF rig with a set of light limbs to work my left side. Anybody else gone this route?? OH, I forgot, always shoot righty but I'm left eye dominate.  

[mcgroundstalker]

When I retire, I'm gonna keep busy like that too...  :rolleyes:

Hello Ron!  

[damascusdave]

Ron I have been preaching the benefits of shooting both sides for some time as you can see from my tag line...like you I am, or at least was, left eye dominant...that causes me no issues that I can detect...I just turned 64 and I can easily shoot my age in draw weight both sides which I think is a testament to the benefits of doing that

DDave

[James Principi]

From age 7 to somewhere around 27 I shot right handed.  One day I read an article about eye dominance and low and behold discovered I was left eye dominant.  Ordered a left handed Blackwidow and made the switch.  The best move I ever made.

[59Alaskan]

I am right handed and right eye dominant.  I switched to LH because of a shoulder injury unrelated to archery.  I am capable of shooting both now but RH hurts badly so I don't do it often.

It took me a long time to work the eyes.  

Two of my children are left eye dominant and right handed.  I started them on dual shelf and just let them shoot whatever side they want.  They both started shooting about 50/50 then both chose to eventually shoot nothing but left handed

[Bowwild]

I'm RH and left-eye dominant. I shot RH for 28 years. I switched to LH in 1996 to conquer target panic (it worked from the first minute).

I can now shoot RH as well but only do so when testing kids' bows, arrows, target butts, etc.

[Biathlonman]

I'm right handed and left eye dominant.  Never had any issues shooting righty.  Anything left handed feels so awkward I can't imagine being able to make it work.

[ron w]

I find one of the toughest things shooting lefty is just putting the arrow on the string.......it just feel awkward after doing right handed for so long........The mind is a funny thing.

[Gray Buffalo]

I did early in my bow career. I'm right handed in everything except shooting a bow. When I started shooting back in the early 50's shooting right handed just didn't feel right. Thankfully I had a bow that could be shot either way.

[Paul Cousineau]

Right handed, left eye dominant here. I have always shot righty, as that is how I was taught. I wish i shot left handed. This winter i'm going to sell a few of my lesser used righty bows and buy left handed bow to shoot all winter. I have read way too many positive things about shooting from the same side as the dominant eye to not give it a very serious try.

[59Alaskan]

Knocking the arrow is a very awkward step in the process.  I quite often (shooting left handed for a few years now) still knock RH and switch the bow

[DennyK]

For me it was tougher to get the nock on the string then switching sides. No issues with eye dominance (right eye).

Denny

[Caboo]

I'm left eye dominate and had always shot right handed. After reading some articles about eye dominance I decided to pick up a left hand bow and give it a try. I was amazed at how much better I shot and how nice it was to see only one clear arrow in my secondary vision. I was so right handed that I couldn't pick my nose with my left hand and yes it was awkward to nock a arrow. But I got a left handed back quiver and filled it with arrows. I would grab an arrow and nock it and then grab another and nock and etc until the quiver was empty. Didn't shoot them, just let them fall off the string to grab another arrow. After a couple weeks of that over and over it became natural. I shot left handed for 10 to 12 years but then I developed that terrible thing called target panic. Nothing worked until I went back to right hand shooting. Still shooting right hand now with a lot of my arrows going left to where I want them to stick but that's the way it is. I tried going back to left recently but the TP was still there.

[Dalton63841]

I am left handed, but my first bow was a $5 Bear recurve my step-dad found at a yard sale. I shot right handed for years, until I actually bought a bow new, and then it was left handed. It took quite some time to get used to, even though I'm also left eye dominant.

[Stumpkiller]

I did (thank you Kat for help finding a LH bow) when I did something very stupid and my tractor snipped the end off my right hand ring finger.  It was reattached successfully but for 18 months or so I was shooting lefty.  

It took some doing and I had to think constantly about what I was doing.  What it did do was make me rethink form and pay attention to every aspect and actually helped when I went back to right handed.

[Gundog68]

I am RH and switched to LH after 3 years of RH shooting because i my left eye is dominant. Now i can shot both sides, but better as lefty.

[Longtoke]

it felt more natural for me to shoot left handed when I first started but I never gave myself a chance to grow into because I am right eye dom. however, I would do it for kicks and giggles if I ever came across a left hand bow at the right price

[T-Bowhunter]

I shoot LH and I am right eye dominant.  I have been shooting a Bow LH for 40 years.  I also shoot a handgun LH but shoot a rifle and shotgun RH.  I am all messed up.     :confused:

[Hopewell Tom]

I did and will/can never go back.
Everything was better except that arrow nocking thingy. However after about a couple of hundred arrows, good to go now.

[Lady Frost]

I am left handed and left eye.  My boys are right handed, but took their right handed bows and were shooting left handed with them.  I tried to correct them but they resisted, saying it felt better to shoot lefty.  That's when I realized that they were left eye dominant.