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Originally Posted by Dennis The B
Sorry, but until someone offers some empirical proof, then the legend that the SAA is a left-handed gun belongs to the stories of urban mythology.
Samuel Colt was a genius at marketing, and left handers represented (and still do) only about five percent of the population. It is inconceivable that the SAA would have been designed for lefties.
As to the cavalryman shooting left handed and wielding the saber in the right, it's virtually impossible to do both, and still control the horse. It's also very difficult, if not impossible to cross over with the left hand, and draw from a right handed flap holster, which was standard issue.
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Why don't you offer up some proof that it is indeed a right handed gun? You haven't yet, and everything you have posted could be called an urban myth as well.
I never mentioned using a saber.
It is only common sense that anyone, mounted or otherwise, who is right handed would be better served with the loading gate on the left, as well as the ejector rod, allowing the gun to remain in the hand used to fire it as soon as loaded. Switching back and forth is a good way to end up dead in a firefight, not to mention much slower than necessary.
We will have to agree to disagree here.
