To some degree it depends of you're going to shoot with sights or instinctively. I was in the same predicament back in the day (left eye dom/rt hand) and wanted to buy a custom recurve. Edmonton hosted the Pope and Young awards banquet back in the late 1990's and i had the good fortune to chat about this dilemma with some of the biggest names in archery (Larry D. Jones, Dwight Schuh, MR James, Dave Samuels and a few others) ... if one was to shoot compound with sights the opinion was split (as you can close or squint the dominant eye and look through a peep sight with the non-dominant. However, without exception, every one of them said to switch to left handed if i wanted to shoot a recurve/longbow instinctively. They said that it would take a while to get used to but there would be no turning back. They also said that you could probably get away with shooting right if you were just shooting targets but in hunting situations during the heat of the moment your dominant eye would take over and you'd either miss by a significant margin or worse wound an animal. So, since i was going to invest a significant dollar in a custom recurve i decided to take a first step and i purchased two light weight recurves ... one left and one right ... and then shot them each for a year. it was very awkward at first shooting left as i'd shot compound for 15 years right handed ... but by the end of the year i was convinced that left was the way to go. i'm now the proud owner of a Caribow Taiga takedown recurve and love it. i also ended up switching to a left handed compound as well.
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