Sinistral
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Almost up to 2K posts now which is no surprise on this.
I agree with all of this, but the supply situation is better now than when I started. Then it was only Heym, and Remington which was no choice at all.
Whenever someone admits to being cack-handed (using the pejorative label - see?) it usually follows that they’re not absolutely so. I watch for the signs. They write right-handed, or retrieve their wallet with that hand. As shooters come in varying degrees of left-handedness some can adapt to right-handed rifles. Some turn vice into a virtue by claiming that these are quicker to fire from a rest. They’re not left-handed in the sense of the word, but are hybrids or ambidextrous to some degree.
True ‘dyed-in-the- wool’ lefthanders are a different breed. In character they’re naturally stubborn (read obdurate) because the world is aligned against them. That discrimination extends to door handles, knife bevels, book bindings, eating utensils, packaging, shotgun top-levers, AND (which really ****es me off no end) the operating arm on my RCBS Rockchucker. Every device has the knob on the wrong side.
It’s a constant struggle on a minor scale which is more than irritating. It affects your mindset & hardens your attitude. It turns you into an individual who won’t compromise when it comes to rifles. My approach is that this is my hobby so sod any adjustment. For once I am having what suits me. I’m with the OP in saying why the F should he have to adapt at all?
Taking a more detailed look at the WB list out of left field:-
The first 6 on the list or custom builds aren’t a realistic option for the OP because of cost & scarcity.
Heym SR 21 & SR 30
Steyr Mannlicher Luxus, CL 2, SM 12
Sauer 202, 404
Mauser M03
Blaser R8
Antonio Zoli
Tikka T3 (5 x LH out of 19 models)
Tikka T3X (5 x LH out of 22 models)
Sako M75 (LH only in long action cals.)
Sako M85 (no LH)
Browning X-bolt (2 x LH out of 20 models- .243 only)
Browning A bolt (DISCONTINUED - 2 x LH out of 30 models - .270 only)
Savage various models (4 x LH out of 50 models)
Remington 700 (3 x LH out of 41 models)
Ruger American & 77 (4 x LH out of 16 models)
Titan 6 (1 x LH out of 7 models)
CZ (CZ557 LH in .308 & .306 only)
Zastava M70 (not imported AFAIK)
As the OP doesn’t like the American rifles in group 3 this leaves him with virtually b*gger all to choose from. He is looking at a lengthy wait for a T3X which nobody else would accept.
Check out the bolt-actions on Guntrader.UK. If this reflected the incidence of LH shooters, at least 15% of the stock of 2900 in CF should be lefthand models. The number in .243 - .300WM deer calibres up to a price cutoff of £1,000 is 23. That’s less than 1% of the total which is the real world.
https://www.guntrader.uk/Guns-For-Sale/results/ac89-6ea8-4a46-43b2?format=list
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Anyone who lists the LH options as ‘adequate’ is clearly a right hander who ignores the numbers and the fact that many of the aforementioned ‘options’ have a LONG waiting time. They’re right...look on guntrader/gunstar.
