I am left eye dominant and but I can't do anything with my left hand so I shoot right handed. I can't shoot with both eyes open either. BUT if you are able to bat and play golf left handed then making the transition to shooting a bow left handed shouldn't be that difficult for you and IMO would be well worth the effort.

I cannot believe the wives tales about this subject !

I am left eye dominant and shoot right handed. In fact I do everything right handed. I'mgood at sports and this has NEVER been a negative to my skills.

i shot a compound for 12 years cross-dominant and shot damn well - and still can. When I switched to trad bows - huge shock/difference because there is no peep or sights to MAKE you focus using your non-dominant eye. Focusing, which BTW is the key to most archery shots, is actually enhanced IMO by being cross-dominant. You MUST focus, because if you don't your dominant eye takes over and its impossible to shoot accurately

My last point - Larry Yen and Howard Hill are/were crossdominant shooters. Tell them they could be 'better" if they changed !

Shoot crossdominant, learn to shoot it, do it like you've done everything else in your life and you'll be just fine.

Some people may be able to do that but the majority can't shoot with both eyes open when they are cross eye dominant. So it would be a help to change hands if you only shoot with one eye open if you were using your good eyeI don't about you guys but it seems like it would be a help to actually see what you were shooting at

When you are making refences to Howard Hill et al wouldn't it make a difference as to how much difference there was between their two eyes and how much difference there is between the shooter in questions?Surely, it's not the same for someone whom's weaker eye is significantly worse than it is for someone whom's weakeye is every so slightly weaker.

I am right handed and left eye dominant. I started to shoot left handed a year ago. My groups are tighter and my confidence level is alot higher. A couple years ago when I shot right handed, I missed deer at 10 yards, and my first year left handed, I shot a 5 pointer through the center of the heart at 25 yards. Switch to your dominant eye, YOU WILL BE A BETTER SHOT!

Wrong. They CAN they just don't practice and concentrate hard enough. I'm VERY left eye domiant ...... I know it can be done. Trust me

Its a theory, but if you DO change ....... do you also start writing let handed ? Using a fork left handed ? Remote control, driving a car, raking the yard, using an axe, throwing a ball ........... you ge the picture.

With cross-dominance your mind is ALREADY trained to do things the way you've always done them - right eye dominant and using your right hand. Switching only for the use of a bow ? I think it complicates things

true - I'm sure it is (see my aboive points on that)

Anyone who IS NOT cross dominant can only truly understand what its like by picking up a trad bow and trying to shoot instincitve the "other way". You are not looking down the shaft, through a peep - you're looking way OUTSIDE and OVER those references ........ its funny to me to try and shoot a left handed bow. I cannot imagine getting use to Point Of Aim or anything like that now.

Oddly enough, me using my Dad's right handed Q2 last fall in Kansas was like riding a bike. There wasn't anything to revering back to using my left eye, a peep and sight again.

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Howard and Larry coul dbe better shots ? Surely you jest ?

But lets assume you are correct ........ you no longer use your right hand for anything "dominant" do you ? You would have seen that EVERYTHING would be better by switching hands, correct ? Yet ............ I'm guessing you've changed nothing else but your shooting of a bow ?

You guys that are suggesting to go ahead and switch to left handed shooting still are'nt making your case.To those that have switched and are shooting better, did you have a problem keeping your left eye closed? I have no problem shooting a rifle, shotgun, or pistolsighting with my right eye infact have on several occasions had 25/25 roundsshooting trap. Obviously I don't know everythingand am always open to learning but it just seems logical to me that if the four points are lined up, eye/ peep sight/ pin sight/ target, there should be no problem as long as you can keep your left eye closed. The dominant eye does not see "straighter" than the non-dominant eye.

Any reference to switching shooting hands based on eye dominancy is based on shooting with both eyes open. If your going to close one eye , then dont switch.

DO NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES !! Either eye - when you do so you lose any chance of having any depth perception - ie judge distances.

It probably DOES - as it is the stronger eye and likely the most 20-20 of either I'd guess. However, point is, your BRAIN has lived all its life compensating for you using your "wrong" hand.

Change shooting your bow, change everything for the same reasons - right ?

And no, I'm not just guessing here, I've tried "switching" and hated it. I'm crossdominant, and I'm proud of it !

Data, at the time you are sighting in the target have'nt you already judged your distance and made all corrections for the shot?andsetting the correct pin location on the target? Thus eliminating the need for depth perception at that time.At that point it seems you are just concentrating on a two dimensional image.

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IMO, you should switch to l/h, and learn to shoot that way with both eyes open. Yes it will be awkward for a while, but once you overcome that, I think you will be better overall. I know several guys that are just like you described yourself. They made the switch to l/h after years of shooting r/h, and are happy they did. Overall it feels much more natural,they don't have to fight the eye dominance thing, and seem to be much more accurate overall (with less practice).

Data...yes maybe you can do it, but more than likely the avg guy out there can't do it nearly that well. Another thing, if you can LEARN to shoot cross dominant well, you can LEARN to shoot lefty well, and probably with less trouble. Asking if Howard Hill and such could be better...maybe you are right, but how do you know they couldn't? And 99% of us couldn't be as good as that no matter what we did, so thats not really a valid question.