pick up a right handed bow you want to try and shoot it left handed. might seem a little strange but works fine. then if it feels right you can order a left hand model.
Try being left handed with a short draw and needing >50 lbs. Even at the ATA show I rarely found a bow I could try. Out of the the seven compounds I have bought... only one was I able to shoot before I bought it.
There are companies that offer left handed bows with variety. They are just hard to find. I too am left handed, and shot many bows before settling on a Mathews Halon. Down here in Texas, we have a shop called Cinnamon Creek Ranch that has left handed bows in most brands. They may only have one of them, but they are available to shoot. Look at specialty shops!
I am left handed as well and I write, throw, and do whatever else with my left hand but I shoot both my bow and guns right handed for the above mentioned reasons. When I was little I was legally blind out of my left eye. So I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn when my dad tried teaching me to shoot left handed.
I did most everything left handed until my freshman year of college. Had an accident 3 days before school started and messed up the left arm bad. Learned to write right handed and kept on doing it cause I hate smearing ink too. Although to this day I can not write in cursive right handed only sign my name. I played college ball and threw right, batted left with a right eye dominant. Throw a football left handed though. To this day I've never been able to try golf clubs before buying, just measure, order and hope I like them when they come in. I shot traditional archery for years and when I switched to compound I just started shooting right from the get go. I was right eye dominant anyway.
I just buy them used or leftover on AT. Let other guys take the depreciation hit and I'm out very little short term if I decide to offload it. I say that, but I haven't bought one in 6 years, lol. I should have prefaced my post with "Before I was married..." Sent from my Turbo 2.
