u do not have to but i did   i’m shooting left hand  no problemo   i see one arrow not 2 when shooting right handed……. right hand i still shoot i know witch arrow i;m aiming with…. by experience       good luck…………jerry

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I’m a little late to the conversation but I shoot left handed and am left eye dominant.  I started shooting a right handed bow when I was 10 (?) simply because that’s what I found in my dads garage.  When I enlisted in the Army I discovered that I was left eye dominant.  Took me a few years but I eventually bought a left handed bow.  I had always been a few inches left of where I was “looking”.  When I started shooting lefty and anchoring closer to the dominant eye I obviously improved.  Some say you don’t have to switch, that it doesn’t matter since we’re not “aiming.  I say switch.

-Jeremy

Little late to the conversation as well.  I am right handed, but left eye dominant.  I shot right handed for a long time as we didn’t have any left handed bows.  I shot well.  My dad got me a Black Widow left handed 67# recurve in 1989.  It was a little tough to learn the correct form with that weight bow, but I eventually got it down.  I still shoot it today.

I guess bottom line for me was that I actually shot pretty good right handed as that was my dominant hand.  Shooting left I think feels a little more natural (once I got the form down drawing with my weaker arm).  It’s kind of the same as being right handed and left eye dominant when shooting a handgun.  I have a better trigger squeeze with my right hand, but everything lines up better shooting left.  Hope this is useful.

Matt

Thanks for your pertinent comments. This thread is a bit old , so not a lot of action. Welcome to the forum and please continue to join in for future discussions .

Scout aka Ray