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Button Buck
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| Got a question for some of you veteran bow hunters and pros if any reading this.I am left handed but shoot a bow right handed am right eyed dominant,but shoot a pistol left handed using my left eye.Last year I hurt my right shoulder and couldnt hardly draw my bow back with my right arm.but can very easily with my left would it be wise to swap to a left handed bow or would I just be wasting my time.bow hunting is my favorite thing to do and I dont want to give it up.Need your opinion on this.SERIOUSLY. BY the way I did by me a left handed hoyt but have not had time to shoot it.
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Gameskeeper
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First...welcome to Mossy Oak!
When you shoot your pistol, are you aiming with your left eye or right eye or both? A lot of archers use both eyes when shooting a bow. To me, if my right arm was giving me problems I will shoot left handed. But at the same time, I'm ambidextrous so I can shoot left handed with a little practice. Just try it and see...you might wind up shooting better...who knows.
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Woodsman
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Shooting is shooting, whether it is with a bow or firearm. Switching to left handed shooting should not be a problem if you shoot with only one eye open. That takes the dominant eye thing away. If you shoot with two eyes open to relieve eye strain, you may want to block the right or dominant eye (you did say you were right eye dominant didn't you?) to eliminate cross over problems. If you wear glasses you can get a opaque dot to stick on your glasses to blur your right eye. Trap shooters use them all the time if they're off eye dominant. There are also flip down patches that attach to the brim of your hat like target pistol shooters wear. There's also the pirate eye patch! AAAAR Matey!
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Gameskeeper
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/\ No offense Sarge but this sounds like a recipe for disaster... 
You're just gonna have to shoot A LOT...only then will you know for sure! It is possible though. I read of a kid that lost his right arm to a mosquito bite and now shoots using his mouth and left arm so if he can do that, this is nothing... Good luck dude!
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Woodsman
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I guess the way I worded it it sounded like it was gonna be easy. It wouldn't be, it would take lots of practice to get used to shooting the other way, but it can be done. BAck when I was a police officer we had to qualify with a long gun from both sides, so I practiced on both sides. I'm now fairly comfortable (with a firearm) both long arms and handguns, shooting with either hand or from either side. I have shot numerous game, both deer and turkey from the "weak" side, but it took lots of practice to get there; and I have to close my right or dominant eye to sight properly when I do it.
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Gameskeeper
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Don't get me wrong Sarge, you definitely have some good points. I train both sides too and have shot one deer left handed because she wouldn't give me another shot (and she was a fat ole heffer that I wanted in my freezer... )... I think it makes you a better shot, if you practice that for sure.
With pistols I train with both hands and train to rack the slide one handed, etc..to simulate SHTF conditions too...
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