Left hand/right hand,who does both?

Jerry Jeffer · July 03, 2012, 10:39:00 PM

I had a dual shelf bow made this past year. Been shooting both hands since the end of winter. Think I'll be ready for a shot at a deer by hunting season.

Bowwild · July 04, 2012, 06:54:00 AM

I'm RH but Left eye dominant as well. I shot RH for 28 years and have shot LH since 1996. I can shoot RH but I don't any longer.

LoneWolf73 · July 04, 2012, 06:32:00 PM

Shoot both ways. Started shooting Right Hand a few years back to try more bows.

sweeney3 · July 04, 2012, 06:40:00 PM

I have been teaching myself to shoot right handed lately. I'm a lefty, but being a lefty in a righty world means you're pretty close to ambi anyway. I've gotten fairly decent out to twelve yards or so. I wouldn't try a shot at a game animal right handed yet, but I expect by the time the season rolls around I'll be competant at short ranges if I get the chance. My next couple selfbows I'm working on will be either dual shelved or shot off the knuckle.

Razorbak · July 04, 2012, 10:45:00 PM

shooting lefty and righty for the past 35 years..when I started at age 6 I didnt know better as I had no one to learn from..didnt know I was left eyed dominant but by the time I was 20years old I can shoot both hands equally well but I choose to shoot lefty as injurys more or less determine that now days..but ocassionaly I will pull out a righty and shoot..just practice and after awhile it would become second nature

Anointed Archer · July 04, 2012, 10:59:00 PM

I shoot both rh & lh, I am rh eye dominate and am more comfortable rh but I shoot lh almost as well just feels a little awakward. I just had Steve Turay build me a dual shelf Ottawa which I love. Like Bladepeek I will shoot a dozen rh then switch up and shoot a dozen lh.

Eugene Slagle · July 04, 2012, 11:06:00 PM

Outside of the bows I teach with I usually stick with my right handed gear but I do wish I had a hunting bow that was a dual & I had become more proficient with it.

slivrslingr · July 05, 2012, 08:09:00 AM

I hunt righty only as I'm most confident that way, but switch back and forth when practicing. A dual shelf bow may be in my future!

nd chickenman · July 05, 2012, 09:51:00 AM

I can shoot either way, what I found surprising is that you have to HUNT right or left handed. Meaning than your stands and blinds don't always work for left handed shooting and vice versa. I had to redo some stands and set up "across the trail" or around the other side of trees. Once I got that figured tho, it's nice to be able to do either.

recurve_shooter · July 05, 2012, 04:43:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Big Ed:
I have enough issues R/H!!

I agree. I'm left handed and while I could probably shoot right handed and hit a barn from the inside, I'm not sure which wall it would be!

JPE · July 06, 2012, 09:41:00 AM

I can miss equally with either hand.

ron w · July 06, 2012, 11:00:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by JPE:
I can miss equally with either hand.

I hope I can do my best to hit what I want....This will be a learning experiance.

hitman · July 06, 2012, 06:08:00 PM

I shoot lefty and righty, BW 52# LH and RH BW 47#.

July 06, 2012, 08:30:00 PM

i shoot both sides, I started because of a finger injury. Went back to right hand heavy bows and quickly heated up a joint on a different finger, so for now again I am back to being mostly left handed. The switching was nothing for me, since I am ambidextrous and do not have a dominant eye. however, with two identical bows I have a half inch longer draw right handed than left handed, so somewhere somehow I am not quite the same size left versus right.

amazonjim · July 06, 2012, 10:51:00 PM

I shoot both and would like to get one bow that I could shoot both off of.