benhuntin

Im left handed with a right eye dominant. I presently shoot left handed. Everything works as long as I close my right eye. The sight pins also have to be projected out well right of the arrow to sight in. I did shoot right handed for a few years but had to switch back due to ghost vision in my right eye.
I do seem to shoot better and more consistant left handed now that im used to it again.
I would recommend suiting the shooting hand with the dominant eye. I just know from my experience that it would have made things alot easier if I could have started that way.

Lefty Llewellyn

As my forum name states, I shoot left but I' m right handed and left eye dominant. As a kid starting off, my father determined I was left eye dominant and made me always shoot left handed with both eyes open. However I was not a bowhunter as a kid so I feel for your struggle with this girl because she cannot pull the bow back left handed.

Many posters have stated they are left eye dominant but close that eye when shooting right handed. I would think that is the only way you could shoot right handed since the dominant eye will ALWAYS take over if left open. God made us that way.

It was real easy for my dad to help me determine. I cannot just close my left eye, only my right eye so in the beginning I was having fits trying to sight in with both eyes open and shooting right handed.

So it seems you have two options: 1) Strengthen her arm over time and have her shoot left handed/left eye dominant and be able to shoot with both eyes open or 2) Shoot right handed and close her left eye.

You do lose some depth perception when you close one eye so my vote would have been option #1 but gee, I might just be a little bias!!!

RIStrutStopper

This thread is like a support group... I' m left eye dominant but shoot right handed, and always have. I close my left eye and that seems to work pretty well.

Dave Solgat

I am a right handed person with a dominant left eye and have been shooting lefty for over 20 years but I switched to right hand shooting this year and with practice I am getting pretty good at it. I have to close my left eye to shoot righty but keep both eyes open to shoot lefty. I switched for several reasons, one being that it seems alot of the good stuff, sights and rests, ect. are easily available for right hand bows and if I want to try a bow at a pro shop, they always have right hand models to try but not lefty bows, at least not around here. I would try to work her into right hand shooting unless left eye dominance is because of a poor vision problem in her right eye. I have a stigmatism in my right eye but am doing very well to work around it. (might cause low light hunting problems, I' ll have to wait and see).