Anthony Horton<p>Hmmm, my experience at the archery range earlier today has me questioning my eye dominance.</p><p>I am very right handed and haven't previously had much cause to think about my eye dominance, so I guess I just assumed I'm right eye dominant like most right handers. So, I bought a right handed bow, which is designed to be held in the left hand, drawn with the right hand, and aimed with the right eye.</p><p>I am realising though that I find it very difficult to aim the bow correctly without closing my left eye, thereby forcing myself to aim with my right.</p><p>Earlier today I spent a while drawing the bow with both eyes open, then checking my aim by closing my left eye. Basically every time I did this I found that I had instinctively put my left eye's image of the sight on the target, and that my string alignment was way off too, requiring me to make big corrections while holding at full draw.</p><p>I can force myself to aim with my right eye without closing my left eye, but this requires a moment of conscious thought as I look at the two images of the out of focus sight ring and decide which one should go over the target. It doesn't feel natural, and again it inserts an undesirable delay in my shot process.</p><p>I've done a bit of digging on the subject of cross dominance in archery, and found this video particularly interesting: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMShzejiiNY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=YMShzejiiNY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If I really am left eye dominant then it seems I have two choices. Either become Squinty McGee and close my left eye through my whole shot process, or switch to using a left handed bow, with the majority of expert opinions backing the latter.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Archery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archery</span></a></p>