I was left-handed and right eye dominant in the beginning. I spent the summer when I was nine years old, learning to write with my right hand (my father promised he'd buy me a rifle if I accomplished that task). I was never quite as good writing right handed as left, but I can still do it when needed. Shooting rifle right handed felt natural. I shot pistol left handed, and eventually tried using my left eye. It works out better for recovery from recoil (when shooting a semi-auto). Nowadays, I shoot rifle right handed and aim with my right eye, and I shoot pistol left handed and aim with my left eye. More than anything else, it is a matter of learning to coordinate you unsed hand, and learning to see with you non-dominant eye. For persons without physical disabilites, where there is a will, there is a way.
I have two air pistols; one with a left-handed grip (for regular shooting), and one with a right-handed grip (just for fun).
Three of my rifles can be shot left-handed, but only one is (mostly) ambidextrous (my Anschutz 335 break barrel rifle). The others are completely right handed.
I very naturally shoot pistols lefty and rifles righty. Really helps with tactical shooting!
I use both eyes for pistol and only the right for rifles.
What works works.
Oddly, my regular shooting buddy is just the opposite!
I have a few lefties.
Anschutz 1813L
Anschutz 54MS
Kimber 82 Custom Classic
Vudoo V22
Browning X Bolt
Several Rem700 LH and a bunch of customs like BAT and Nesika. Sucks there aren't more to choose from.
As of a year ago, I have finally replaced all of my right handed rifles with lefties. While I have fewer rifles than at any time over the past 15 years, I am satisfied with these four bolt action lefties:
CZ 452 (22 LR)
CZ 527 (.223 Rem.)
Savage M77 Hawkeye (204 Ruger)
Savage 93GL (22 WMR)
Finally, the pride of the gun safe is a truly ambidextrous Ruger No. 1V in 222 Rem. That rifle is one of a kind, as Ruger never built a 1V in 222. I had a 1A converted to a 1V with a Krieger barrel, a Jard 1.75 lb. trigger and a 1V stock.
The bad news is theleft handed CZ 452, CZ 527 and the Savage M77 Hawkeye are out of production. I still see the Savage 93GL for sale at several outlets but that is about it.for reasonable priced decent quality lefties.
You may have noticed I am down to one lefty in 22 LR. By having Don Stith make a BR stock for my 452, while being able to switch stocks in 5 minutes or less, I have both an off hand sporter and a light Sporter class BR rifle in one rifle. That is all I need. If you have never seen the 452 with the Don Stith stock, here it is:
Great idea Onearm building the Ruger 1V in .222.
Ditto for the CZ 452 stock swap.
I have several left hand .22 rifles of different makes and some ambidextrous like Ruger #1's and lever.
Just bought a Belgium Browning T-Bolt grade 2 that is going to be a somewhat project gun.
I’m about as left handed as it gets. Don’t recall ever owning anything made for a left hander other than a baseball glove.
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