Can you buy a Left Handed lever Rifle

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Can you buy a Left Handed lever Rifle?? I had asked a few gun stores if they make a left handed lever, and no one was sure if they did. last year i was looking at the cabela's catalouge and under the scope section, they were advertising the Cabelas scopes for Marlin Lever action rifles and the picture was a left handed lever... now this could be do to a mirror image when the picture was taken, but i am not sure. I use lever action all the time and just dont like the brass flying out in front of my face and having the ejection port on the same side my face is.
Thanks in advance.
 
Nobody has ever made a left hand ejection port lever. I am a south paw and I have never been distracted by ejection, be it shotgun or rifle. You should be concentrating on the target not what is going on around. Don't sweat the small stuff, the brass won't hit or harm you.
 
I'm thinking "Mirror Image", but ya never know. Personally, I've never seen, or heard of one. I think the quickest absolute "Yes/No" would be obtained by asking the manufacturers directly.
 
goof-ups like that happen all the time- the negative gets reversed, and the printer doesn't notice it- case in point was a springfireld 03 a few years back- NEVER MADE in left hand-as far as noticing the brass flying. i've NEVER seen a casing eject yet, and i've been at this game 38 years- and i shoot a savage 99 and a winchester 94- about the only way you get injured is if you're crawling up the stock to where you shouldn't be anyway- ie putting your nose on your hand while shooting- if you're back where you're SUPPOSED TO BE- roughly in the CENTRE of the buttstock, where the cheekpiece is , you don't get hurt- same deal for semis or anything else you care to name- for the record, one of the worst things you can do is to work the lever slow- it's meant to slam, and that's where you'll run into your feeding problems- my 99, if you feed it slow on the upstroke will stovepipe in the mag- ie one pointing straight up, one pointed into the chamber- crank it like you mean it, and it works perfectly-
the only thing i've seen that even comes close to a left eject would be a WINCHESTER , one of the OLDER models that was TOP EJECT- and that goes out the top and over to the right-
 
Never have seen one, never heard of one, but it would be good for left handed shooters to have the ejection port on the proper side, I was nearly blinded by a case failure in a marlin 45-70, the gases and brass bits were vented out straight back towards my right eye.
 
bam bam said:
Never have seen one, never heard of one, but it would be good for left handed shooters to have the ejection port on the proper side, I was nearly blinded by a case failure in a marlin 45-70, the gases and brass bits were vented out straight back towards my right eye.
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Why weren't you wearing protective eyewear?
 
I chose a M94 Winchester as my primary deer rifle because I'm left handed.
Its as close to a left handed rifle as you can get (without buying a truly left handed rifle)
It works fine for me.
 
I'm a lefty and have been operating levers for nearly 50 yrs. Never had a problem with the top or right side eject. Never seen a left side eject. Have been searching for a Sako Finnwolf with the left hand stock. Never seen one in the flesh, yet. I'll bet a big percentage of the farm that what you get there is a left hand shooter's cheek pc and that's it. The action is still likely to be your typical right hand.
 
Savage 99 with a tang safety. It is left AND right handed. Love mine. Great little rifles and they come in decent cals-mine is a 308 and has a DM. Works for me.
 
Find an older top eject Win 94...the spent brass will sail right over your shoulder regardless of what hand/side you use. :D
 
chuck nelson said:
A bike is as close to a car as you can get (without buying a real car).
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:):) Hardy Har Har Har!

I grew up mainly hunting with lever actions, because they work well as an ambi-rifle. Mainly Marlin 1894/336s and a Winchester 1895. The levers don't get much use since I've 'discovered' LH bolt rifles...
 
The older top eject Winchesters are about the best you can do.

I understand your problem, we have a guy that hunts moose with us, he uses a BLR, and has jamming issues. He's quite short, and the ejected cartridges bounce off his fairly straight forend arm, back into the chamber.
 
first thing i'd do is shorten the buttstock - probably an inch or more- that would put more crook in his arm - a lot of the problems have to do with stance more than anything else- the "average" rifle is built for the average shooter- if you fall outside the norms, or are left handed, that "average "rifle isn't going to suit you- what should be done is the same as for shotguns- you MODIFY the gun to FIT YOU- most people will do that for a shotgun, but for some reason, won't do it to a rifle
 
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