Right handed shooting left??

[Dave-G]

I'm right handed, occasionally shooting left but I don't this is quite what you meant Mick. If I'm the front seat passenger in my car or some other truck with shogun type door mirrors where the forestock is rested on the mirror bracket I can shoot something lit up by the car headlights for example as a lefty. I think that's because I'm not having to greatly adopt my posture and in a fully rested, relaxed full body supported position.

That works very well on a '3 brothers rabbiting night' with another brother out the roof hatch in the rear one of their Pajero's.

 

[whinfell]

Same here, i am ambidextorous, i write with my left hand, use tools with my right hand, use a fishing rod right handed, shoot rile and shotgun left handed.

 

[LeftHandGuy]

I am left handed and shoot lefty. I am blind in my right eye, so not much choice really! My Dad is also a lefty but shoots RH due to learning to shoot in the CCF at school.

I have recently found that a RH bolt rimfire off sticks is quite comfortable to work off the left shoulder. However, I find an RH centrefire pretty awkward, and I would almost certainly learn to shoot RH like my Dad if I could do so with any chance of hitting something!

 

[Monkey Spanker]

What makes me cringe is watching a left-handed shooter trying to use a right-handed rifle! Not only does it look awkward, it can lead to safety issues with the handling of the rifle. So here's a question......

With about 10% of the population being Lefties, why are there so few Leftie rifles about? Surely they should make 10% as such?
I remember some military stuff could only be fired from the right such as the old LMG.
How many of you Lefties use a Rightie rifle?
MS

 

[bogtrotter]

Most rifles are made for God fearing right handers, not those Devil worshipping Lefty's

 

[topgun]

me to,right handed left eye dominant

 

[Cyres]

No 1 son is right handed, left footed and has left master eye and is just about to get L/H .22lr Annie He shoots preferably of his left shoulder so L/H shot gun on the cards. Son no 2 is R/H. left footed but shoots R/H. Notice this weeked that son No 4 when using a Nerf gun is again R/H and left master eye so looks like my sons are going to cost me a fortune.

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[goldypurple]

I am left handed for most things appart from shooting, i naturally picked up a rifle right handed dont know why, and if i try to shoot left handed i feel cack handed, i am right eye dom any how, and i can shoot well, monkeyspanker can verify that

 

[bogtrotter]

I expected someone to comment on my silly post of earlier regarding God fearing right handers and Devil worshipping
left handers silly yes but there is a serious point, some younger members may not be aware that not so very long ago being left handed was discouraged, youngsters starting school were made to write with their right hand. When I started school there was a left handed boy in my class, I can still remember him being forbidden to use his left hand and him being told anything done with his left hand was the Devils work.


Imagine telling a five year old he is not normal because he favours his left hand.

This was in the 1950s not the middle ages.

The good old days I am not so sure, thankfully some things have changed for the better.

Nowadays you can get left handed scissors, left handed rifles, left handed bows and I am sure there will be other things made specifically for left handed people, but they are either not readily available or only available from specialist suppliers, its almost as if being left handed is still thought of as not being quite normal.

 

[deerslayer]

I have a 308 which is left handed and a rugar 25 06 single shot which can be shot right or left handed with no safty issues.

 

[LeftHandGuy]

It is a pity that there isn't more choice for those of us who are left handed, most manufacturers seem to offer LH bolts, I have seen Tikka, Remington, Browning, Varberger, and I know Blaser, Sako, Savage, Heym and CZ all do them. It would be good if some of Savage Axis LH rifle packages made it to the UK as they look like really good value.

MS is right, I feel horribly awkward operating a centrefire RH bolt. Each single shot is fine, but either reaching over the scope, or slashing open my left thumb on the underside of the bolt are both unpleasant and not conducive to good shooting! Other than a little blood and discomfort I wouldn't say I was unsafe though, just sub-optimal. Guy

 

[Barkingsnake]

I feel really comfortable shooting my "comp gun" a M1917 in 30-06 left handed or, for that matter, the SMLE the I had before.
You just get used to it...however, it's not scoped and I also own a Savage M25 which is right bolt only: awful.

Much better with a bolt on the proper side...like my T3.

 

[Sinistral]

I'm right handed but left eye dominant. I shoot shotgun left handed and rifle right handed.

​Matt.

I wasn't going to take part in this thread as the OP is asking about right handers with a dominant left eye. I'm one of (non-identical) twins where it's quite common for one twin to be 'normal' and the other to be a totally 'lefty' - in both hand and eye. Even after smashing my left wrist & leg in a stalking accident, and losing the pincer grip (and complete 'trigger finger' feel .... sob) in my left hand I'm unable to do anything righthanded - including rifle shooting.

Most of the right-handed posters who've said they shoot lefthanded (from the left shoulder) are only left eye dominant because the vision in their right eye is damaged or impaired in some way. I'd suggest that a righthander with normal vision in both eyes isn't affected by left eye dominance when shooting a rifle as he's squinting down a riflescope .... so has but one point of focus and a single point of aim. All he has to do is to closes his left (master) eye then his right eye assumes dominance, and he can use it to shoot from his right shoulder as God intended. It seems too simple and obvious a remedy unless I'm not seeing the point here?

Shooting a shotgun is a different aiming function as both eyes need to be open to track the movement of the intended target with the barrel - so in this case wrong eye dominance will tell you the bird or beast is somewhere it's not..... so you'll have to compensate in the way matt has done.

 

[bazil]

Hi I'm left handed but I change from left to right as the shot dictates with a rifle or shotgun say in a hightseat or in a pigeon hide you want to seethe faces on some of my shooting companions when I took my DSC1, I moved from right to left when I was doing the shooting test also my point of aim don't move much bazil

 

[pitiliedon]

Gobsmacked at the number of right hand left eye dominant posts, i thought i was the only awkward bu**er. shot rifle and shot gun of either shoulder when younger but somehow left eye took over. no issue in cycling bolt quickly to take down family group of hinds when needed but could not work left hand bolt to save my life! more, chance of success fitting it with a bayonet or hefting as a club.
I suppose safety issue may be if chamber failed youve more of your face exposed to bolt or vent. Have noticed with semi auto 12gauge if powder not burning clean, get crap back in eyes as spent cartridge ejects. I taught my brother to shoot who in turn taught his first underkeeper and so it goes on , all right handers left eye.

 

[colmd]

I too am right handed, Left eye dominate. Shoot left handed with left handed actions, including a Benelli L/H semi auto shotgun.