Lefty AR shooters?

[JonB]

I am in the market for an AR. Tried to resist but have finally given in and decided I want one. Favoring a RRA so far as from what I have read quality is as good as Bushmaster or other 'top' manufactures, but price seems to be better.
Anyway, I shoot left handed. I have never bought a left handed rifle due to no resale value in them and have always just made a righty config work for me.
Saw that Stag has a 'true' lefty product. So my question to any left handed shooters with an AR - any adverse effects from shooting a right-handed AR? Hot brass falling on your arm or anything like that?

Second question since I have you here reading this - any huge differences in accuracy going with a varmint/bull barrel versus a regular barrel?

 

[Dave Markowitz]

I'm left handed and shoot from that side. As long as you don't get an upper without the shell deflector (that bump abaft the ejection port) you will not experience and problems with the ejected brass.

I did add a DPMS ambidextrous safety to my Colt 6721, but many lefty shooters get by with the stock selector lever.

I can't speak to the barrel issue WRT to accuracy. But what do you intend to use the rifle for? If it's for defense or plinking, the bull barrel will be too heavy. If it's for targets or varmints, then the bull barrel has some value.

 

[lwrnc1963]

I'm a lefty also and I never had a problem with brass in my face when I went to the range in my USAF days even with the old original M-16 without the brass deflecter "bump".

 

[nhhillbilly]

AR Left handed

I also am left handed and left eye dominate. I have shot most of the A2 or M4 styles with the deflection with out any issues. I also like the DPMS ambi selector switch. It is must better then the Bushmaster one.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Left handed, left eyed, and no problem w/ the stock AR platform, as long as it has the deflector.

I didn't even bother w/ the ambisafety, the knuckle of the trigger finger works just fine.

It's pretty hard to get one w/out a deflector these days, you pretty much have to do it on purpose.

 

[Rob1035]

geek- ditto. Bone stock A2 rifle for me, works great for my southpawness out of the box

 

[hunttheevil]

I am left handed and left eyed. I had the opportunity to buy the Stag 15L A.R.M.S. #40 A2 and went with it. I saw it at a gun show a couple of weeks ago and was the only left hand AR in the building. I figured it was meant to be.

 

[blackhawk2000]

Righty, but left eye dominant. I have a stock Bushy M4gery. No problems with brass or working the controls.

For the mag catch/release I use my trigger finger. For the safety I use my left hand thumb. See attachment. For the mag release I grasp the mag with my right hand, and hit the button with my right hand thumb. I tried another shooters ambi safety, and I didn't like it. It hit my hand. I got kind of wide hands.

 

[rono]

I have a RRA Upper Varmint and shoot it left handed. No problem with the cases. Except for deflecting far enough to hit the person shooting on the bench to my right... (Usually my wife) Getting ready to build another, probably M4 style. Still going to be a right handed model.

 

[rangerruck]

As long as you are not firing while wearing a Army brain bucket. I once got a piece of brass stuck in my chinstrap, and could not flick it out!!! left a scar for about a year.

 

[earplug]

Foreword assist

Us left handed left eyed are well taken care of with the AR15.
We can use the foreward assist as a nose weld.

 

[jem375]

I have a DPMS 20" SS bull barrel lefty and like it very much but it is the only left handed rifle I own, am so used to shooting righty's so it doesn't bother me now. I have shot a dozen or so of other righty ar15's and it doesn't bother me at all now....DPMS and Stag make lefty's if the need warrants it...

 

[dmftoy1]

Another lefty AR shooter . . absolutely no problems aside from not liking the right-handed safety . . .and ambi safety is dead simple to install though so it's an easy fix.

Have a good one,
Dave