Left handed stocks

[Craig820]

Hi i shoot left handed but use right handed action.just wondering if anyone has come across left hand thumb hole stocks with right hand actions

 

[bfltd0]

I have never seen any as standard. You can of course have anything as a custom order. with a big enough wallet. It might be simpler to get a left-hander action in a leftie standard or thumbhole stock.

 

[Craig820]

Thanks yea kinda thought the same i looked through grs etc and not seen anything.wallets not big enough to go custom and im not that desperate to have one just more intrested his you could get them. I would go down the left hand rifle route but weirdly i have always struggled to use them probably the fact I've grown up shooting right handed rifles

 

[takbok]

@Craig820 it's not a huge job to modify a LH stock for a RH bolt and safety cutouts etc then fill in the LH cutouts with epoxy filler etc. Also, some rifles will require less work than others.

 

[Sharpie]

Boyds gunstocks make left handed laminate stocks inlet for a large variety of right handed actions as standard products and in several colour schemes. Both thumbhole and standard types. From about 150 US dollars.

 

[Cottis]

I have an Anschutz with a right hand bolt and german deluxe left hand thumbhole stock.

Not found many others though. I have an M12 Max which is ambi drop down grip with a right hand bolt which is also a good fit.

Im like you. I dislike left hand bolts personally.

 

[jb7x57]

What rifle do you want it for ?

 

[jb7x57]

What rifle do you want it for ?

 

[Craig820]

At the monent it would be a 25-06 tikka t3x laminate

 

[LuckyEddie]

I could do with 2, one for a Brno .22 rf and the second for a Tikka T3 Hunter.
Been searching for as as long as I’ve had a FAC!

 

[Sharpie]

Tikka insist on using a strange recoil lug that is part of the stock, not the action, as a stamped out bit of plate metal.. It probably saves them about 50p in manufacturing cost. But makes the stock hardly worthwhile trying to copy. That's assuming that it is much good in functionality, which is debateable.

Sako do it rather better.

You may struggle to find an independent stockmaker who understands it, or wants anything to do with it.

Ejg on here might be able to help out, with his bespoke carbon fibre laminate things, that maybe cost as much as the rifle itself may have done.

 

[needsy]

I fitted my RPA into an AICS stock

 

[llwynog]

I have a right hand bolt CZ in a left hand thumbhole laminate stock.

 

[sparko]

I have one on my CZ Hmr, came from Joe West in about what seemed like 2 years from ordering, years ago I also had one from Richards Microfit in USA, blue laminate, came in about 6 weeks ... though things have changed in the states now.

 

[rangey]

I use 2 grs ,left hand stock,right hand bolt on my howas

 

[ejg]

Tikka insist on using a strange recoil lug that is part of the stock, not the action, as a stamped out bit of plate metal.. It probably saves them about 50p in manufacturing cost. But makes the stock hardly worthwhile trying to copy. That's assuming that it is much good in functionality, which is debateable.

Sako do it rather better.

You may struggle to find an independent stockmaker who understands it, or wants anything to do with it.

Ejg on here might be able to help out, with his bespoke carbon fibre laminate things, that maybe cost as much as the rifle itself may have done.

One way of properly fixing and bedding a Sako 85 is to throw away the L plate recoil setup and fit/bed a tikka T3 recoil lug. T3 is miles ahead of many other rifles when it comes to bedding and swopping rifles in the same stock. Some of our PRS competition shooters use one stock for several competitions from 22lr/223/6mm/6.5CM All fit in the same stock and can be changed in minutes, try that with Sako.

Unfortunately we do not make a thumbhole at the moment, however we do make left hand or right handed ambidextrous stocks where the cheek raiser mechanics can be swopped right to left. Quite a few left handers use right handed rifles.
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[markyw]

My Howa is wearing a GRS Nordic Wolf, left hand grip and right hand action. Not thumbhole, but shaped for us lefties all the same. All my other rifles are just as they came, made for the ‘lesser’ members of the shooting fraternity

Not really had an issue and you can always add lift or a cheek pad on the ‘right’ side of the stock as needed.

Regards

Mark

 

[Loler UK]

A blaser r93 or R8 can be any combination or LH or RH stock, bolt and ejection

 

[sparko]

My Howa is wearing a GRS Nordic Wolf, left hand grip and right hand action. Not thumbhole, but shaped for us lefties all the same. All my other rifles are just as they came, made for the ‘lesser’ members of the shooting fraternity

Not really had an issue and you can always add lift or a cheek pad on the ‘right’ side of the stock as needed.

Regards

Mark

That’s very true ... As a lefty you learn to be able to shoot with anything, if there isn’t a left handed gun available, you shoot a right hander ... not many right handlers can swap.
In my experience of course.

 

[TASR12]

After 11 years of shooting my Sako 85 I‘m now looking again to see if anyone has decide to produced a left handed thumbhole/palm swell stock for a right handed Sako action but going by this thread I’m guessing not. I‘ve emailed a few suppliers but no joy. It’s a shame GRS can’t expand their range by one.