Left or Right?

Should I go left, or right?  We're not talking politics here, we're talking about something much more interesting.

I'm nominally left-handed.  I write with my left hand, hold a wrench in my left hand, If I'm throwing a punch, it will normally come from my left hand.  However, when I was a mere youth, my Dad conducted an eye-dominance test and we discovered I was right-eye dominant.  So, he taught me to shoot long guns from my right side.  For me, putting a shotgun or rifle on my right shoulder is the most natural thing in the world.  That proclivity moved over to handguns, and as a police officer I've always carried my handgun on my right hip.  It works well for me.  I shoot a handgun just fine from my right hand.  And, because my dominant eye is on the right side, I pick up the front sight very well.

Milady wonders why I don't shoot left-handed, and I've tried to explain to her the dominant eye theory, and forty years of right-handed shooting, but her argument is simple.  I don't use my sights in this fast-draw game.  It's point-and-shoot, pure reactive shooting, and sights are superfluous.  Indeed, if I took a grinder to my revolver and shaved off the front sight I'd still be within the rules of the game.  I'm naturally left-handed, she argues, so it stands to reason that I'd be just a bit faster on my southpaw side.

The other day, I strapped on a left-side holster.  I bought one a couple of months ago to accommodate a left-hand son and grandson who shoot from the south-side.  It didn't feel odd, just different, and if anything, I was a bit more accurate.  We've got a major shoot coming up in three weeks, and while I have no pretensions of winning it, I'd like to do the best that I can.  Speed is fine, as Wyatt Earp famously said, but accuracy is final.

I'm faced with a quandary, and I need to settle down and pick a side so that I can focus on the peculiarities of my draw, get consistent, and fine tune my stance and speed.

Decisions, decisions.