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Help with My Recurve, and a Few Compounds, Have Land, Will Invite!

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I live in Western PA and my family has a dairy farm and close to 800 acres, more than half

60+YO timber growth in hardwood and nice deep valleys with massive hemlocks overhanging the watering and crossing spots. A bow hunter's paradise. Because of regulations, I used to hunt archery (unsuccessfully) around 12yo after school with my dad's older but still very nice Hoyt. I recently acquired a recurve after his passing. He grew up coal mining with a sick family in Appalachia and he was a master with a recurve. I recently inherited it, and after watching YT vids of Olympic and amateur recurve shooters, I notice there's a sight window, but holding with my Left (nondominant) hand on the grip, the arrow sits on the left side of the (riser?) and I pull and shoot right eye dominant. I know this is silly, but I've got a Hoyt, an Apple (very new), and a great archery shop down the road. Is this how recurves are fired? I believe I may just need a new sighting hole and I have some great ranges to spend my winter throwing as many arrows at the targets as I possibly can. Before I ask the local archer specialist, anybody has a link to the stats on what the right pull length and bow length for a 5'7" 150 lb guy should be close to? The recurve was made by an Amish bow maker and my father killed many deer with it. It has hand-painted stats below the grip and it's numbered in hand-painted ink. I'd love to find the guy. Maybe he's famous? Anybody that can recommend a book, blog, or sight, I'd greatly appreciate it. Mostly I want to know the theory behind a recurve and if I'm on the right track. I used to shoot 100 arrows daily 3 times a week aside from competitions. IDK what I can pull now though. Probably 50-55 but not all day. I also have a "nice" older bear I need to research sighted out to 50 yards that a neighbor gave to me after his son neglected to strap in and fell from his stand. Only 7 feet but alone, and injured, it was a tragedy. I might disassemble it, and research the best ways to put an amazing non-camo eye-popping paint job on it for a winter project. Gotta finish building that Bren MkII and Lee Enfield Mo.4 MkI jungle carbine. Rifle hunting can be boring and unsporting, but I collect WWI-WWII and Korean era long guns and hunt iron sights very far from hunter pressure where I can stalk and meet them on their own time. We eat well, and our foodbank patrons can't get enough.
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