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Q I am right-handed and right eye dominant. So I should naturally prefer shooting a right-handed bow, right? But I have always felt more comfortable shooting left-handed and squinting my dominant right eye.
Can’t explain why – just feels like the right way to shoot for me. I know this absolutely goes against what I should be doing which is to shoot right-handed. My form and accuracy are reasonably good though and I feel uncoordinated shooting a right-handed bow. But should I instead try to “unlearn” my left-handed style and train myself to be a right-handed shooter?"
A Assuming you shoot recurve target or barebow, eye dominance affects people in different ways and the solution will depend on how strong your eye dominance is. It may be the case that you can continue to shoot your bow as you are and when shooting with both eyes open (preferable to squinting) you just need to remember which sight pin image/arrow point and string picture to use on the field.
The ideal situation is to shoot with your eye dominance, so if you are right eye dominant then shoot right handed (drawing the string back with your right hand). The benefits being that you can shoot with both eyes open which helps with spatial awareness and
