Leftys & Rightys

[RMFnLA]

I’m right-handed but left-eye dom.

The first time I ever shot any gun was a friend’s older brother’s BB gun when I was about 6.

I put it to my left shoulder and the older boys tried to tell me I was doing it wrong until I out-shot every one of them.

 

[Erich]

I'm enjoying your posts, amigos. Left-handed, left-eyed; had the scissors and got grief for them from the school.


As to the revolver, I've never grabbed one because my experience hasn't made me trust Charters; the mainspring issue isn't unusual.

 

[Tom K]

Right handed, left eye dominant. I shoot handguns right handed but use my left eye, so my wrist is cocked a little. I shoot long guns left handed. Both of my brothers are the same way.

I'm pretty accustomed to right handed long guns. For bolt guns I keep my left hand on the wrist and work the bolt with my right. Sometimes I have to move my left thumb out of the way. Autos, pumps and levers are pretty easy. I'm accustomed to brass flying past my face.

Still, I do have a few left handed bolt actions. Even though I already have a left-handed CZ452 American, I just went on GB and bought a left-handed Savage Mark II G just because it's so darn inexpensive. Photo from GB listing. The listed price was $250 with no credit card fee AND free shipping, so after taxes and my FFL's fee I'll be into it for $290.

Besides the Savage and the aforementioned CZ, my first left handed bolt gun is a .460 Weatherby with Lazermark stock. Great fun.

My target of choice is a one-gallon can of hominy corn at about 20 yards.

Then I have a couple of lefty Ruger M77 Hawkeyes, one in .308 and one .223. I haven't shot either one much yet, even though I've had them for about ten years.

 

[pantannojack]

I have found a cheap crescent wrench for left handers. It tightens the opposite way of any I have had before.

 

[Bullet Bob]

Savage has always been one of the more left hand friendly manufacturers. I was recently reading about their new straight-pull rifle. Switching it to left hand is as easy as removing the bolt handle and installing it on the other side. Their designers seem to on a roll with all sorts of longarms lately.

 

[A10]

I would need to completely retrain myself on using a revolver....

 

[THE PILGRIM]

My Savage posted is a AXIS LH 223 REM.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When number two son came home from the Marines in 2004, I had found a left handed Savage 110 in 223 as a coming home present. It had a 6-18x40mm Kessner (Philippines) scope on it and the cheapest plastic stock! I bought it for $200 OTD because they couldn't sell it. The 110's have a bolt almost a foot long!

I zeroed the scope right-handed (a huge pain) using a Winchester ammo, 46 grain @ 3700 fps. I got 3-shot 1/4" 100yd groups with that ammo, So I gave 200 rounds of that lot with the gun.

A couple years later, I told him to grab his gun and we'd go groundhog hunting at my dad's farm. He had sold the gun! He eventually bought a STAG lefthanded AR-15 in M-4 configuration. but it won't group like that Savage!

He keeps eying my Rossi 92 stainless in 357 and my small collection of Rugar No1's!

Ivan

 

[Professor Frink]

Did you get it at the Leftorium?

 

[BourbonCowboy]

I've become a bit of a left-handed gun snob. If it isn't designed for a lefty or completely ambidextrous, I don't want it and won't buy it. That's why I have an affinity for Mossberg shotguns and HK pistols. The CA Southpaw is just icing on the cake for me...until I can afford a Cabot 1911.

Yes, I own several guns that are designed for right-handed shooters, but they were gifts that see little use.

 

[Irate45]

I do have one left-hand specific rifle and that is a Savage 110 in 30-06.

I also had problems with a schoolteacher that tried to get me to write right-handed. She was probably in her late 50's so she was from a time when left-handers were discriminated against. My mom went to school and had a few words with the teacher and problem solved. Don't mess with mom! That was in the early 1950's.

My father wrote left handed and taught me how to write. Unlike the majority of lefties he didn't slant the paper and hold his hand at an awkward angle. Straight up, like a righty.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Yesterday I was watching a Dude scrutinize a SIG Bullpup.
Man is that thing complicated and convoluted!
And the ejection port is way to the rear on the Right side.
Probably not a good idea for us Lefties.

 

[chiefdave]

For years I refused to own or even shoot an AR. In '67 after completing SERE school I was sent to camp Pendleton for small arms training. The last part of the course was to qualify with the M16, the early ones w/o a shell deflector and they were not lefty friendly. The Top that was the range master felt sorry for me and broke out a match M14. Thanks to Bear Creek I now own 2 AR's to go along with my 2 LH bolt rifles.

 

[Sistema1927]

Sinister handed, dexter eyed (cross dominant).

I have always shot long guns from the right shoulder, and hand guns left handed. After almost 50 years there is no way that I could operate "left handed" revolver. At the same time, with the addition of an ambi thumb safety, I truly believe that the 1911 is a better left handed gun than right handed.