If you hold the bow with your left hand and draw the string with your right hand, you are in fact RIGHT HANDED, tilt the bow very slightly clockwise. If you hold the bow with your right hand and draw the srting with your left, you are indeed left-handed, tilt the bow very slightly anticlockwise. And remember, DO NOT hold the bow sideways, it is an extremely common mistake you see on the television and NO real archer would do it because it ruins your bow-arm technique and draw technique.
The same reason a left handed person puts an arrow on the right side of the bow. It's convenient.
Modern archery bows are usually designated as being either left or right handed. If you draw the string with your right hand, and the arrow lies on the left side of the bow, the bow is right handed, if you draw with the left hand, arrow on the right side of the bow, it is left handed. Some basic, traditional, bows, such as the English longbow, can be shot either left or right handed, modern recurved bows cannot be shot from the "wrong" hand due to the position of the arrow rest, and the cutout in the side of the bow. Normally, if you are right-handed, you need a right-handed bow, since you will usually draw with your right hand, left-handed people use their left hand.
The arrow rest for a recurve bow should be on the left side to you while you are holding the grip of a right handed bow (pulling the string with your right hand while holding your bow with your left).
If you have a left handed bow, then you probobly would be left handed anyway, so you would pull the string back with your right hand.
A bow for a right hand person, which is the hand he or she would draw with, has the arrow shelf on the left side of the bow. Just the opposite if it is a left-hand bow for a left hand person.A RH person holds the bow in their left hand, a LH person holds the bow in their right hand.
a left handed compound is so expressive so we can't buy it......
Right handed bow: hold in your left hand, draw with your right hand and use your right eye dominant. Left handed bow: hold in your right hand, draw with your left hand and use your left eye dominant.
No, not unless you buy a new handle.
dont use the bow at all im a expert just quit archery all together ]
Mine is marked 50lbs 58" bow length, should be marked in black ink on left side of riser just below the grip on a right handed bow.
Port, is nautical terms, means left, so when facing the bow, the port side would be the left side of the boat.