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Chief RID:
DC. I struggle with this also. I used to think that a steady bow hand in follow through was the solution, and it could very well help but since my wing shooting has gone south the last few years, I am considering the dominant eye thing. There can be many things that cause your dominant eye to lose it's dominants during shot alignment. This can become very frustrating for instinctive shooters as well. Some folks say it takes as little as something to blur your vision in your non dominant eye. I am going to use this for my wing shooting. I may even cover my non dominant eye if I have too. I have been able to eliminate the problem shooting the bow at close range by concentrating on my sight picture and making sure I get my eye over the arrow. At long range I can tell I have a harder time focusing , probably due to the target being harder to focus and the dominant eye thing being more pronounced of a problem. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it, until I come up with a better one.

jeffp51:
This is a really good video on the different reasons we miss left.  I found it helpful, anyway.  I still can't shoot straight, but at least I don't miss consistently one way or the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDrAS9tKjqw

DC:
Wow, great answers and it looks like I'm guilty of most of them. I know I'm hitting my arm guard once in a while because I can hear it even if I don't feel it. Raising my brace height seems to fix that. Eyes and concentration. Well I'm 70 with the beginnings of cataracts and concentr----- ooh, lookit the grouse. That is a great video, he touches on just about everything I do wrong. I'll watch more of his videos.
Thanks guys

Jackpineboyz:
Dc,
I tend to do this occasionally for 2 reasons.  If my spine is right on at full draw, if I collapse or alter my form enough to loose a little draw length my arrows are stiff and shoot left (right handed). I try to keep my arrows just slightly weak to prevent this.  Also if you bare shaft tune, a perfect arrow tends to stiffen slightly with feathers added.

With this change in my set up, I typically shoot left when I my draw cycle gets sloppy and my right hand is at anchor, but the back of my hand is off my face.  I now use on my 1 st thumb joint as part of my anchor as well as finger tips.  When I am doing this, I also realized that I'm loosing my string blurr since I am no longer right over the arrow.

aaron:
All good thoughts  above.  Only thing i would add is that if you are shooting instinctive, you may want to try gap shooting. Worked for me.

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