Sympathey for lefty's

[petew]

I never realy thought about it much until my Grand daughter decided she wanted to hunt. You lefty's have it hard.

What a pain to find a left hand youth size gun or even a left hand wood stocked gun that can have the stock shortened.

It compounds the matter because I don't like plastic and sand blasted steel, and am on a budget. I don't completely rule out plastic, but it is not my first choice at all. When I do find something on a manufacturers site that is a candidate , it is rarely available anywhere in Canada.

The search continues for a decent left hand rifle and shotgun.

The right handed grandchildren have it made , setting them up to hunt is a breeze.

[Slicktricker]

P and d had a Browning micro madias hunter left handed in 7mm 08 when i was there

[Nyksta]

Ruger M77 Hawkeye. Prophet River brings in lots of models. Left handed or right, compact or full size, wood or plastic, stainless or blued.

[brewster29]

Shooting left hand has had one benefit for me: I have been able to keep my rifle collection in two safes! Lord knows how many I would have otherwise.

I would give a kidney for a Kimber mountain ascent leftie.

I share your pain. It has taken me 40 years to put together a battery of decent LH bolt guns. Finding compact models will be tough unless you can live with Rem 700 SPS.

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Slicktricker

P and d had a Browning micro madias hunter left handed in 7mm 08 when i was there

Just looked at this rifle on line and wow it is a nice rifle and great calibre too.

[Opalsasquatch]

I’m feeling your pain right now too

1 left handed boy out of 3



"Shuuuuuuussssshhhhh.

You can't post stuff like that, too many heads will explode."
Hillbillyreefer

[Dr. Phil A]

Single shot and the hammer goes either way.
That fixed a few of my hand requirements.
I am actually RH but left eye dominant.

[Smokinyotes]

My wife, my son and myself are all left handed. Have never had a problem finding left hand rifles. I have a few that had to be rebarreled to get the cartridge I wanted. Since I was 15 I have never owned a right handed rifle.

[Grizzly Adams]

Thought we're talking NDPers here.

Grizz

[Ithaca Dog]

I bought my boy a browning Citori micro Midas in a 20 gauge for his lefty shotgun. He loves it. When he outgrows it his sister or mother can shoot it. I also bought a slip on pad with it so it can grow with him for a year or so.

For a rifle I bought an xbolt in .270. It was a bit too big a first but he grew into it over the year. I didn't go with a youth rifle because I wanted something he could use forever and he is a strong kid with longer arms. It worked out for us.

I think if I had it to do over again I would buy a 7-08. Especially with a gun that didn't fit the best the recoil was unexpectedly sharp until he grew into it a bit.

With a girl I would look at a youth model. She won't likely outgrow the gun.

Good luck.

[Jack&7]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

Thought we're talking NDPers here.

Grizz

hahaha! Me too! I saw the title of the thread and thought it was about either the provincial Dippers....or the Federal Libtards.

....and I thought to myself before clicking: sympathy??? No such thing for those clowns. Haha.

Much happier to see this is about guns!

[wolf308]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

Thought we're talking NDPers here.

Grizz

Ya me too. 😲

I shoot left.

Never have had a problem running right handed bolts or right handed guns in general. Even in the military the c7s were fine.

[Sitting Bull]

I have recently been trying out lever actions. Works pretty good so far.