john81276, you are right they finally called and looked into the problem, so I edited the title of this post.
As far as knowing what would happen when I shot it,
as I already explained, when you put it up against your face,
it felt ok and there was no indication it would be a problem. Had it not been a gift, and I walked in the store and pulled it up to my shoulder, I would have noticed it, but again, since the comb line is still intact, and the indentation is just below it, I would not assume it could actually hurt someone by shooting it in standard fashion.
I say this because I have no experience with a gun that can cause damage to a left hander upon shooting it. I have experience with our fully automatic weapons, which sometimes burn my arms with hot brass. I have had to stick my finger all the way through the trigger and back around to select the fire position on a Remington pump (which is awkward as it is potentially dangerous) and I've learned to rearrange my fingers to operate the other 55+ guns my father and I own, and shot, since I was 6years old.... but I never shot
anything that I would warn another left hander about
until now. Get me? This wasn't uncomfortable. This wasn't awkward. This was dangerous. And there was very little indication that there might be a problem until you started firing it.
As far as me loading the gun 4 times and shooting it, instead of realizing something was really wrong on the first shot, I don't know what to tell you. If you ever shot slugs before, or even looked at the brass, you know it's going to kick like a mule. If you are surprised that shooting something that can shoot through concrete walls and engine blocks actually kicks, then you are an idiot. And if you arent shooting with your cheek to the stock, you aren't ever going to hit anything reliably. So, yeah, I was expecting the kick, I was expecting to be sore a little bit, and maybe even a little bit more than normal. That's just the nature of shooting. If you aren't ready for that, go home and watch it on TV. Once I shot a few rounds through it, I'm already in another mindset and my cheek was already numb kinda. It's not like I took one shot and immediate screamed in pain. I was concentrated on my groupings.
As far as you guys that just cant let go that while they did not say this gun was explicitly engineered for the comfort of left hand shooters, I never said they did.
Repeatedly. What they do is show only one picture of the weapon in use... and it is being used left handed, at the shoulder.
They tell you it has an
ambidextrous safety which
I quote is
'convenient for right or left-handed shooters'.
So, you tell me what that means, if not that this gun can be shot using your left hand on the trigger. That with out any hands on the trigger I can use a finger on my left hand to actuate the safety? Maybe they should say that I can use my pinky finger too then? Or my toe on my left foot? Also, if you know that gun, then you also know that if you put a pistol grip on it, that safety is not ideal for left OR right handers (just look at it) because it really wasn't engineered for that grip, although it is offered as an aftermarket product.
As far as my initial email to them, I wrote that with my left hand
