41magsnub
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If you started a left handed gun company you could get Ned Flanders as the sales person! Or, maybe you get get a kiosk in his Leftorium.
What Have They Got Against Southpaws?
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CZ 452 and if you can find Remington's 581 was made in LH.
If you want to know just about any and everything ever made for us lefty's look here.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78711
If you want to know just about any and everything ever made for us lefty's look here.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78711
VirgilCaine
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Either my M44's action or stock is too heavy or I'm too much of a weak, sedentary guy, but I can't manage that at all. I can, however, do the reverse--retain my support grip with my right hand and remove the gun from my shoulder and use my left hand to cycle the bolt.
creekerdoug
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I'm very ambidexterous but I consider myself left handed. I'm comfortable shooting righty or lefty. I'm a little faster with a hand gun right handed but I'm much better with long guns left handed. So that's how I usually shoot. Strangely, I don't seem to have a dominate eye.
I really enjoy shooting IDPA or 3 gun stages where they make you shoot "weak handed". Advantage to me on those.
I really enjoy shooting IDPA or 3 gun stages where they make you shoot "weak handed". Advantage to me on those.
351 WINCHESTER
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I've been left handed as long as I can remember. In second and third grade my teachers beat my fingers with wooden rulers, took my pencil from my left hand and put it in my right. I always put it back in my left. I got so frustrated that I started writing really small. So small that my Mom had to buy the teachers a magnifing glass. I got very poor grades in writing (no wonder). For reasons unbeknown to me I could bat both ways, throw a ball, etc. The first time I shot a gun I was the only one missing the target. There were only a few rounds left so they concentrated on me. Someone noticed that I was closing my right eye (I was shooting right handed). They told me to close my left eye and I hit the target every time. Yea, I could write a book on being left handed, but I know we are in our right mind.
Actually being left handed was a blessing as it made me tougher and more adaptable to challenges not to mention hard headed.
It would be much better for you if you could learn how to shoot right handed, but if you can't, don't fret. You can overcome your obstacle.
By the way, I resent being called "old timer".
Actually being left handed was a blessing as it made me tougher and more adaptable to challenges not to mention hard headed.
It would be much better for you if you could learn how to shoot right handed, but if you can't, don't fret. You can overcome your obstacle.
By the way, I resent being called "old timer".
Try being left handed, right eye dominant. 
Check the definition of the word "sinister." Yeah, we had it good if all we got was a slap on the wrist (literally) for trying to write left-handed in grade school. Wasn't too long ago, they thought you were worshiping the devil and just stoned you to death.
That might hold with golf or baseball, but it doesn't with fencing; rather, it doesn't hold with Olympic gold medalist fencers. Last I checked over 50% of those athletes compete(d) left-handed. It just depends on the sport.
But in general, yeah, you learn to adapt. As a boon, revolvers and ARs are neutral (maybe even lefty leaning with ambi controls on the latter). Everything else? Try shooting in Production division IPSC/USPSA or SSP division IDPA as a left handed shooter. Good luck with that. I bought an M&P 9mm specifically for Prod/SSP and was thoroughly disappointed. Maybe with a bit of tinkering (and JBWeld) the tiny, rounded little slide stop can be made into a usable release for a lefty, but that puts you in ESP division IDPA. (Not sure if you still qualifiy for Production IPSC or not, but hey, shooting a .36" hole at minor PF is plenty competitive in Limited or L10 so it shouldn't matter too much...)
Left handed IPSC Grandmasters? TGO comes to mind, but he shoots righty. You don't really have much of a choice. All the right handers talking the "just use your trigger finger for the mag release, it might even be faster!"nonsense haven't considered that if that were the case, all the right handed IPSC shooters would be running left-handed mag releases.
No, you pretty much learn to run right handed (like everything else from manual transmissions to scissors) and clean up on the weak-hand only stages.
Check the definition of the word "sinister." Yeah, we had it good if all we got was a slap on the wrist (literally) for trying to write left-handed in grade school. Wasn't too long ago, they thought you were worshiping the devil and just stoned you to death.
That might hold with golf or baseball, but it doesn't with fencing; rather, it doesn't hold with Olympic gold medalist fencers. Last I checked over 50% of those athletes compete(d) left-handed. It just depends on the sport.
But in general, yeah, you learn to adapt. As a boon, revolvers and ARs are neutral (maybe even lefty leaning with ambi controls on the latter). Everything else? Try shooting in Production division IPSC/USPSA or SSP division IDPA as a left handed shooter. Good luck with that. I bought an M&P 9mm specifically for Prod/SSP and was thoroughly disappointed. Maybe with a bit of tinkering (and JBWeld) the tiny, rounded little slide stop can be made into a usable release for a lefty, but that puts you in ESP division IDPA. (Not sure if you still qualifiy for Production IPSC or not, but hey, shooting a .36" hole at minor PF is plenty competitive in Limited or L10 so it shouldn't matter too much...)
Left handed IPSC Grandmasters? TGO comes to mind, but he shoots righty. You don't really have much of a choice. All the right handers talking the "just use your trigger finger for the mag release, it might even be faster!"nonsense haven't considered that if that were the case, all the right handed IPSC shooters would be running left-handed mag releases.
No, you pretty much learn to run right handed (like everything else from manual transmissions to scissors) and clean up on the weak-hand only stages.
skinewmexico
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Buy a Savage. Lots of left handed models. And quit whining.
loose cannon
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im lefty on long guns;a ak or sks works fine in my hands,on my sks i can go from bolt back to ready with 10 more rounds in 2 seconds if the loaded stripper-clip is laying next to me,,,,
U.S.SFC_RET
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You can if you really wanted to, "shoot right handed". Necessity is the mother of invention. The glass is either half full or half empty and it depends on the way you want to look at it. I am a lefty who chose to shoot left and right. It wasn't an ambi thing either. It's your choice, you have to work at it.
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fiddleharp
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Apparently the gun manufacturers will all go bankrupt it they introduced just one lefthanded .22 bolt gun in their entire lineup. What I want to know is how do all the bowmakers get away with offering every model of compound, recurve and longbow in a lefthanded version? Maybe it can be done. We'll never know unless somebody tries it.
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