2026 - What I did today.

How did you find out you're a lefty in archery, trial and error?

It's to do with my eyesiight? I am left eye dominant (which I new) but can only close one eye when sighting which is my right eye! This means that when shooting right handed with the bow in my left hand I had problems hitting the target, unless I aimed at another point away from the bullseye?

If I shoot left handed with bow in right hand (which goes against the grain!) I can close my right eye and get a 'truer' shot on target. As I am right handed my right arm is stronger so I need to beef up my left arm to hopefully draw a 40lb longbow more accurately for 100 shots, than if I was using my dominant arm to draw string!

I apologise as this is probably as clear as mud.

My instructor after watching my failing efforts rigged up a lefty recurve bow for me to try and reckons after roughly 24 shots I should stick with the lefty stance when I get my longbow.