For most people, eye dominance is crucial. It's better to have the arrow under the dominant eye while aiming.

Some people have gotten awfully good shooting cross dominant. Fred Bear for one. He was right eye dominant but had to shoot lefty. When he was a kid, he lostthe fingertip of the ring fingeron his right hand while chopping wood.

If you're really sure you're left eye dominant, I'd definitely recommend going lefty. It will feel kind of odd at first, very odd if you're ond of those who uses their right hand for everything and the left hand is practically useless. After some practice - might even take a couple of weeks -it'll become natural for you.

BUT, I'd try to find an old recurve on Ebay or something, a bow with very light draw weight, to practice with at first. If you're any good at working with wood, you might instead try making yourself a lightbow out of a board for a starter. There are a couple of websites I can give you that have good how-to instructions.

http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni/archer.html

http://groups.msn.com/ferretsarcherywebpage/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us/

I've learned it's always good to know how to make a bow anyway. Sometimes you want a new bow but just don't have an extra $500 bill laying around... [&:]