Hand Dominance And Archery Accuracy.

 I am right eye dominant but left handed; when rifle shooting or compound bow shooting, this should not matter as these activities are one eyed aiming and use fixed visual stimulus.

However, when aiming without an anchor point, based on a number of sensory stimulus, including both eyes open, you need to engage your focus, primarily with your dominant hand to increase accuracy.

Your dominant hand will have the most neural sensitivity and thus, have the most feedback to the accuracy part of your brain. The dominant hand will also learn the fastest, developing sensation feedback for hand eye coordination.

Without question, archery is a two handed activity. You need to apply focus to both the bow and draw hand. However, I have found that when my left hand, my dominant hand, my draw hand, my arrow manipulation hand, became a critical check aim, was also when my aim really began to improve and to ensure the arrow will strike as accurately, and fly true as possible. This check is comprised of the combination of thinking about where the nock is located, the pressure of the string on the draw fingers as its draw and then a final recheck to ensure the trajectory and power exerted on the arrow prior to release.

My bow hand, is not a strangle, but a firm, focused control on the stave. Once the string is let go, the trajectory is set and must now be followed with a push and complex hand technique to ensure a true fligh.