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I prefer my left hand, and have right eye dominance due to an eye injury incurred during my teen years (I recovered from the injury but remained right-eyed).
The Marine Corps of the 1960's and 70's taught me to let my dominant eye determine which hand I used.
With handguns, I shoot comfortably with either hand. I lead with the opposite foot to the shooting hand, and line up my right eye behind the sights. Because I lead with the opposite foot as the hand, I don't need to tilt my head in order to line up my eye with the sights.
Once I have gun in hand, I feel equally comfortable with either hand. That said, I feel more comfortable carrying on my left side and drawing from my left side.
Regarding long arms, I shoot right-handed. Although my left eye has the same acuity as my right eye, I don't seem to process what I see through my left eye the same way I process visual information through my right eye. My Marine Corps instructors described that as normal, and the reason for using the dominant eye as the sighting eye.
One can re-train the eyes. Near and far distance contact lenses take advantage of, or rely upon, the ability of the brain's visual processor to learn new tasks. Nonetheless, one can more easily and reliably train the musculo-skeletal system than the visual system.
Take the easier and proven path: right-eyed, shoot right-handed; left-eyed, shoot left-handed.
To teach or learn the opposite hand, do everything very slowly and deliberately, and alternate left and right with each shot. The two sides of the body will observe each other and learn from each other, very quickly. It greatly helps to think positively and to not tell yourself you can't use your other hand. Observe how each hand and body-hand organization performs the task, without verbally judging the two hands.
By the way, alternating hands with each shot, at least with a handgun, will bring about an almost instantaneous improvement in the strong hand. The improvement quickly plateau's, though. Still, an easy and quick way to get a noticeable performance gain in one afternoon of shooting.
Just do 14 rounds; odd rounds left-handed and even rounds right-handed, alternating left and right with each shot, taking your time and observing how each hand does the job (without judgement), and enjoy a noticeable improvement in your dominant hand.
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