Been working on it for about a year and a half. Coming along pretty well. Some days left is better than right. who else can shoot both sides ... ????
I've shot both left and right for many years, primarily to keep my body in balance, but also because I just enjoy it. I'm not as good shooting left handed, and probably never will be, as I only shoot about 1/4 as many arrows as I do right handed, but I shoot well enough to keep from losing many arrows. There have been several times I have discovered something shooting left handed that I like, and have adopted it on the right side, and vice versa.
I have shot right hand for over 50 years, but left eye dominant. I want try left because of my eye dominance but also to balance my body work out. I do it in the gym so I figure it can't hurt on the range. Maybe even hunting, have several dual shelf bows.
I shoot both left and right handed. I'm naturally lefthanded but am right eye dominate. My form is better and I am more accurate shooting lefthanded....if I remember to keep the right eye closed. For the past seven or eight years all my hunting has been right handed.
My brother in law does quiet well on either side.
My left side doesn't function like my right :biglaugh:
I can shoot both but limited to 60# left handed.
I can shoot either side. I often carry a dual shelf bow I made and have harvested game shooting Rh and LH.
I shoot right and left handed also but I don't shoot worth a flip either way
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I'm right handed but left eye dominant. I first picked up a bow almost 3 years ago and have been shooting exclusively left handed. I shoot instinctive, and since I'm generally more coordinated with all things right-handed, I figure I should be able to learn to shoot a right handed bow decently. I figure it would be fun, good for body balance, and finding bows will be easier. However, since I just don't seem to have enough time to practice my left hand shooting, I certainly don't have the time to start working on right handed shooting. Maybe some day...
Amphibious archer here or is it ambidextrous. :dunno: :biglaugh:
I started shooting a left handed recurve last year.
I can eat with both hands :goldtooth:.
Yup. I shoot equally lousy with both hands. :biglaugh:
Shooting equal both left and right hand is nothing special, but if you still hunt left and right footed to match, then you have something.
I pretty much have to.
My hat is off to those who can.
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KAT , I can only dream of shooting as bad as you with either hand :nono: :thumbsup: :biglaugh:
For serious work, I shoot right handed. But all my homemade bows are setup for left. I have a couple with an ambidextrous pass and shoot them on both sides. It would be good if I had a setup that allowed me to use whatever side I want on the fly. But I'm still stronger with my right so hunting weight bows are still kind of a one-sided deal.
My initial motivation to shoot both sides was to help with neck tension. If I only shoot one side, my neck gets all tight & knotted (I have an old neck injury). But I'm an oddball in that I'm mostly right handed but there are a few things that I are easier to do with my left. I have no eye dominance & have failed nearly every dominance test I've taken. When shooting, I naturally take the sight picture I'm supposed to, depending on how I'm standing or holding a weapon.
Funny you should ask Ron. I just sent Don Thomas an article I wrote entitled "dualism", and you are mentioned in the piece. He said it's scheduled for the Dec/Jan of Traditional Bowhunter mag.
:biglaugh: cool
I really should start shooting left handed for balance... my right side has had too many injuries (not shooting related), and is sometimes "out of order".
Any recommendations for an inexpensive dual shelf? Not custom built, but an older production bow? Bear Alaskan? Figure something light (30-35) to start.
Because of my brain my left hand is pretty worthless , but I can shoot a bow left handed, I just have a hard time nocking my arrow . I always thought about making a dual shelf bow it might be handy sometime !
My first duo shooter was a prime piece of pignut hickory, $12 to my door. I believe very straight grained and very dry pignut is better than shagbark. Mine, a 64" flat limb tiller, shoots about as good as any longbow. I boosted the grip to make more of a Hill style grip, I also reduced the width to 7/8" at the arrow rests. It has been reduced and flattened, it is now about 64@26 and likes 50-55 cedar arrows. I am going to burnish the back to take some set out of it and take it down about 10 pounds this spring. I realized the advantage when one day a buck was coming on my wrong side. i reached in my pocket for my cordovan tab, rolled the arrow over and shot the buck left handed. I have been using only duo shooters as my go to hunting bows for a number of years a JD Berry and Sunset Hill. I often still hunt left or right handed, but then switch when i find a perfect place to sit that is better for the other hand. One needs to do their best shooting with the exact same form with both hands, often what 'feels like' and what 'is' are not the same. A video camera can come in handy for that.
I have a dual.shelf Sunbear longbow that I love shooting both sides.
I do.
I'm a right hand shooter but can, not well, shoot left handed. A while back I was having a tuff time concentrating and was in a rut so I picked up a left handed recurve and shot it for a while. What it did was to force me to concentrate on the basics and get back into a groove. So from time to time when I start getting sloppy I'll shoot a couple of days as a lefty. I really think it helps me be a better shooter with my right.
I can, but prefer left hand since my eye dominance is left.
I was strictly a right handed shooter, and then had an injury to my right eye. The sight was not good in that eye, and shooting was out. My left eye naturally became my dominant eye, and I started shooting lefty.
Fast forward eight years, and I had cataract surgery which brought the right eye back to 20/50. Plenty good enough to shoot right handed again.
Knowing then, what I know now, I would have started shooting with both hands without the injury. It is just plain fun, and it does balance out your muscles, and heck, it was a great excuse to buy more bows for the other side.
It is a fun challenge, and if you were thinking about it; my advice is go for it.
Ken, I think with the way you shoot (either left or right) you should close both eyes to give us other guys a chance! :goldtooth:
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