Changing from right handed action to left handed.

[pbear94]

I feel I already know what the answe will be, but going to ask it anyway.

Does anyone know the ball park figure to change a right hand action rem 700 to left handed?
If I can avoid having to give my current rifle away and the lengthy wait for a variation along with then having to find a left hand rifle it would be ideal.

Thanks

 

[Ronin]

Not really viable


Bolt lug abutments are orientated to left or right action and on RH action there is no taper for LH lock up

Similarly, converting right hand to left hand at the bolt inlet would weaken the action at that point - plus ther left inlet would mean machining incorporating the secondary cam

A complex machining operation

The bolt would need changing to left hand orientation too and there is the problem that the ejection cycle would place the case ejected into your face without a ejection port being machined into the action - again weakening the action

Not something I’d recommend

 

[VSS]

I feel I already know what the answe will be, but going to ask it anyway.

Does anyone know the ball park figure to change a right hand action rem 700 to left handed?
If I can avoid having to give my current rifle away and the lengthy wait for a variation along with then having to find a left hand rifle it would be ideal.

Thanks

Probably cheaper and easier just to get your arms swapped over to their proper sides. Anyone know a good surgeon?

 

[Apthorpe]

Even with delays, quicker to get the variation. Benefit of being left handed is that there are some good cheap guns. On guntrader, a Heym .308 in apparently excellent condition for £850. Superior to a Rimington, but if you want one of those, there are several under a grand.

 

[pbear94]

Thanks thought this was going to be the case.
Cheers

 

[Heym SR20]

It can be done, but as has said above you have basically rebuild the whole action. I have seen a few done and they really are a compromise. Being a left handed shot I am always on the lookout fir such things.

Much better to get an action that is correctly built from the start with the bolt handle on the correct side.

As has been said above, the Rem 709, Heym SR20, some Sakos and Tikkas, Rugers and Shultz and Larsen can all be found correctly bolted.

They only rifles that are easily swapped are the Blaser R93 and R8 where its just a new bolt. The new Berretta BRX1 is truly ambidextrous in that bolt handle can be switched to either side.

A left handed bolt is so so so much easier. It just feels natural. I can and do use a right handed rifle - but it just feels wrong.

 

[cjm1066]

22 target rifles in the 1980s used an extra long bolt handle that curved under the action so it could be operated with the left hand.

It was a design that was never going to win a beauty competition, I suspect as the ejection port remained on the right it was a bitch to load.

 

[jcampbellsmith]

Interestingly this is possible for a high price in the .22 world - Walther KK500 Expert .22 Target Rifle
Regards
JCS

 

[Magnificent 7]

It can be done, but as has said above you have basically rebuild the whole action. I have seen a few done and they really are a compromise. Being a left handed shot I am always on the lookout fir such things.

Much better to get an action that is correctly built from the start with the bolt handle on the correct side.

As has been said above, the Rem 709, Heym SR20, some Sakos and Tikkas, Rugers and Shultz and Larsen can all be found correctly bolted.

They only rifles that are easily swapped are the Blaser R93 and R8 where its just a new bolt. The new Berretta BRX1 is truly ambidextrous in that bolt handle can be switched to either side.

A left handed bolt is so so so much easier. It just feels natural. I can and do use a right handed rifle - but it just feels wrong.

Left handed R8 the stock is also different

 

[Utectok]

You would need a variation for a new action anyway just get a one for one

 

[LeftHandGuy]

I feel I already know what the answe will be, but going to ask it anyway.

Does anyone know the ball park figure to change a right hand action rem 700 to left handed?
If I can avoid having to give my current rifle away and the lengthy wait for a variation along with then having to find a left hand rifle it would be ideal.

Thanks

Just bite the bullet and find the LH version of what you already have. I must admit that I am out of date on the UK rules and regs, but is it still a variation if you change one rifle for another of the calibre?

Either way it's worth it to have the bolt on the right correct side. It's more natural to manipulate and it's safer because the rifles are "designed to fail" in accordance with the shoulder they are expected to be used from.

I admit I miss my Rem700 lefty. It didn't look like much but it was slick and accurate!

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Go looking for a ruger m77 cack handed, you’ll pick them up, cheap as chips and will last forever, I have two cack handed rugers , and I haven’t paid over 300 quid for either of them

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Left handed R8 the stock is also different

Why buy a blaser and spend that much

I wouldnt have one if they were free

 

[Magnificent 7]

Why buy a blaser and spend that much

I wouldnt have one if they were free

And why not ?if you can afford it and want one then craic on. like saying why buy a new pick up when you can have an old one.I personally wouldn’t own a Ruger why because it’s not what I’d want does it shoot any better or worse no it’s the buyers choice.Army clothing it’s cheap as chips and possibly about as good as you can get but folk still buy the big names.Thermals a cheap one can be sourced but folk still buy pulsar ect the argument can go on and on.

 

[bullet chucker]

I bought a Remmy 700 30.06 because it was Left Handed. It is a tack driver now' I shoot the ammo it likes and they are not' the most expensive and neither was the gun!

BC.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

And why not ?if you can afford it and want one then craic on. like saying why buy a new pick up when you can have an old one.I personally wouldn’t own a Ruger why because it’s not what I’d want does it shoot any better or worse no it’s the buyers choice.Army clothing it’s cheap as chips and possibly about as good as you can get but folk still buy the big names.Thermals a cheap one can be sourced but folk still buy pulsar ect the argument can go on and on.

Each to their own Sir!

 

[Magnificent 7]

Each to their own Sir!

I’m sure you’ll be a covert in march when I let you stroke mine lol

 

[bullet chucker]

I’m sure you’ll be a covert in march when I let you stroke mine lol

OH' I SAY"! Steady on.

BC.

 

[GWP]

My brother shoots a 22-250 rem700 and a tikka 65x55 695 a aya no4 cast left and Cavanaugh best sidelock which is a true left handed gun always a giggle to watch someone try to open it the first time they handle it even the triggers are set the opposite to normal

 

[PondoroPenguin]

I feel I already know what the answe will be, but going to ask it anyway.

Does anyone know the ball park figure to change a right hand action rem 700 to left handed?
If I can avoid having to give my current rifle away and the lengthy wait for a variation along with then having to find a left hand rifle it would be ideal.

Thanks

I know it doesn’t help. I’m left eye dominant and ambidextrous. I made the decision 20 years to go to left handed guns. Sold all my right handed guns and got a left handed Blaser R93. Unfortunately left handed guns are never cheap how every you try to get there.