wrong eyed

[bowhunting4eva]

hey guys
i was just wondering if anyone shoots right handed compound bows and they are left eye dominent.
i was thinking of getting a compound and i am right handed but left eye dominent.
i know you can close one eye but can you train yourself to become right eye dominent by maybe wearing an eye patch :D . does anyone else have the same problem i have and what do they do about it. i did not really want to get a lefty bow.

thanks for the help

john

[deer hunter63]

hey bowhunting4ever
one of the guys from my club use to shoot a right handed compound until
he find out he was left eye dominent. so now he shots a left handed bow, but it is what u feel comfortable shooting with.

kevin

[Brent]

1 of my friends wears an eye patch it seems to work for him
but of course he looks like a pirate

[GlennMac]

Why wear a patch when you can close one eye ? I'm right handed and left eyed I just close my left eye, I shoot fine

[XTfreak]

I shoot right handed and am left eye dominant. I just close my left eye. And judging by the way I have been shooting lately I must be closing my right eye too. :(
Bill

[bowhunting4eva]

thanks for the help guys :)
but can you train yourself so you are permantly right eye dominent. i have heard of some people that swap dominent hands

[XTfreak]

I do know that you can train yourself.. I just cant remember how. :(
Bill

[Luke]

I'm "wrong eyed" too ;)

I close one eye when shooting with sights but do not when shooting instinctively.

All works good for me :P

I am not aware that you can detrain eye dominance, rather the conscious attention you pay to the 2 images you see in your feild of view (selecting the appropriate one for being either right or left handed - from habit and mass repetition.)

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[Puk]

I'm cross dominant too.
I just shoot through the left-hand image of the pins, not the right-hand ones!

Or i close one eye, but i don't like doing this.
I have recently begun thinking about this when driving, by pointing at an object and closing one eye then the other, to see if i am looking down my finger with my right eye or my left one. I am then pointing at other things and consciously making myself concentrate on the left image, so that my right eye is dominating. I hope i can train myself this way to make it easier.

I must look like a real tool driving down the road pointing at everything in sight. :oops:

Puk

[Garden Gnome!]

My son shoots both eyes wide open when shooting with a peep says he has no trouble focusing. A friend of mine is now right eye dominant after wearing an eye patch over the left eye for around six to eight weeks and can now shoot ambidextrous both riffle and bow :D

Yours In Archery,

Gnome!

[Luke]

The main difference I have noticed personally is accuracy.

With sights with my left eye, I know I can shoot more accurately.

I did all my army shooting training right handed until my mate Dave (armourer and shooting instructor in the army himself) picked up I was left eye dominant. I changed to shooting left handed and immediately halved my group sizes :shock: I now shoot a rifle left handed, it still feels very wrong but I know I am way more accurate and that's what counts.

I may shoot my next sighted compound left handed too...for that reason and another theory I have on handedness and how we hold our bows ;)

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[Dave]

The main difference I have noticed personally is accuracy.

I may shoot my next sighted compound left handed too...for that reason and another theory I have on handedness and how we hold our bows ;)

I was in Bows Arrows & Bits one day looking at the new Hoyts. There was not a great selection of left handers there at the time so I picked up a right handed UltraTec and proceeded to put 5 arrows in a cigarette packet grouping in their small range. I turned around to see Steve looking at me with a weird expression on his face, he then asked why I actually shot left handed as I seemed to be doing just fine with a right handed bow. He said he would have had no problems selling it to me as my form looked good from where he was standing.

My point is...with a bit of practice you could change hands without too much hassle and may be surprised how well you do. It felt funny at the time and I had to really concentrate, but it was do-able.

Just a thought.

[howie]

Easily solved, get a right handed bow with a left handed site. Should be a breeze to shoot. Howie

[Luke]

You're right Dave, with practise it does become much easier and almost anything can be improved in this manner.

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[johnno]

was just wondering if anyone shoots right handed compound bows and they are left eye dominent

Yea...me too....but all the years I've shot handguns I always thought I was right eye dominant...now turns out I'm left eye. Anyway maybe its a case of old dog and new tricks but I shoot my bow with my right and close my left...seems to work ok :D :D

[maxy]

Why try and fight nature?

I am left handed but right eye dominant, started out shooting left handed but changed to right when i worked out that i was right eye dominant. For me it was much easier to train my arms to get used to pulling a bow back right handed than it was to stuff around trying to shut eyes/train my left eye to become dominant. After a while it became natural to bring bow/riffle/shotgun up to my right side.

Yeah sure it may be harder to find left handed bows, but hey you only need to find one.

Maxy

[James_Stone]

Apparently the difference of right eye/ left eye dominance relative to shooting arm becomes more evident in low light and when the shooter is fatigued.

That is, if you are shooting with your non-dominant eye when tired or in fading light, your accuracy and therefore grouping will be affected.

[howie]

bowhunting4eva. Is it going to be a Camo patch? LOL

[bowhunting4eva]

for sure howie. cannot let the record buck i am going to get see me. :lol:

[Jobin]

I shoot right handed and are left eye dominent. i have no troble but then again i dont use sights