View Full Version : Southpaws that use right handed bolt guns ?
Shooter0302
06-22-2024, 11:23 AM
OK, I'm left handed, got a "want" for a small 6 mm bolt gun. Finding a used LH Savage so far has been nil. SO, how many left handed here are using right handed bolt action rifles ?
note:
Due to various health issues all my shooting is from a bench
Thank you
I'm right handed, left eye dominant. Shoot primarily prone, some bench. Depending on which body part is giving me trouble, I often shoot my R bolt Savages using my left eye. As long as I have a good cheek weld and my eye is centered behind the scope, it's not a problem. Bonus using my left eye, I can shoot with both eyes open. It doesn't work for me using my non-dominant eye. I have to close the left.
Azmarlin39a
06-22-2024, 04:28 PM
I’m 68, and been shooting since I was a kid. I’ve owned many bolt rifles, but never a left hand one.
PatrickBruce
06-22-2024, 06:14 PM
Left handed, left eye dominant. I have both left and right handed bolt guns. To work the bolt on a right hand gun, I have to move my head out of the way. Otherwise, no issue.
DQL5150
06-22-2024, 09:27 PM
I'm left hand, left eye. My hunting rifles are LH bolts. RH bolts are not a problem with practice. Southpaws adapt. When I have to, I prefer no RH raised cheek stock and a RH thumbhole stock?...... not worth fighting it.
Woopig
06-22-2024, 11:07 PM
Agree DQL5150. Honestly as a lefty shooting right handed gun off a bench is nice to me. Ejection port is where it's easy load and catch of spent brass.
Shooter0302
06-23-2024, 07:57 AM
I thank everyone for their advice , as DQL5150 said "Southpaws adapt" , so , I'll keep looking , at 78 I don't want to gather to many more toys.
Fjold
06-23-2024, 09:32 AM
I'm a lefty and have left handed bolt guns from a half a dozen makers. From the bench it's just as easy using a right handed rifle as a lefty.
pdog06
06-23-2024, 09:55 AM
I’m lefty but have always shot right handed rifles and right handed bows. I guess it was what I learned on from my grandfather and uncle and it just stuck. However, I can shoot a rifle or shotgun pretty good from the opposite side. Have actually shot a couple deer that way when they come in on the wrong side. Hmmm, maybe it was the right side all along!
LHitchcox
06-24-2024, 08:58 PM
If you are shooting off a bench and using a bipod or bags, the right hand bolt will be no issue. I hunted varmints for several years with a right hand bolt rifle using a bipod and it worked well. The forend was supported by the bipod and my left hand supported the cation leaving my right hand free to work the bolt. I eventually got rid of my right hand rifles and went full left hand.
Shooter0302
06-24-2024, 09:53 PM
I'll Just keep searching the gun shop used racks for a used rifle
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