22 semi for southpaw

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Hi guys,
Looking for a semi for the missus.
She's smaller stature and left handed.
All my 22s are awkward, and heavy.
Any options for a left handed shooter, lighter and something with a more compact stock?
 
Savage makes a few lefty options both semi-auto and bolt. The other true lefty semi-auto is a Ruger Custom Shop Competition. But they are pricey.

The Browning SA is good but expensive. You might be able to find the Norinco clone option. They work good both left and right.

Otherwise you will need to go bolt for more options.

The RH stuff does work and I’ve tried a fair few but always end up with powder blasted towards my face and getting hit with the odd empty casing.

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As a lefty shooter myself I really like my Winchester Wildcat. The safety is reversible, mag release is ambi, has last round hold open, and slide is releasable from one side with a button and the other by pulling the bolt back. Weighs 4lb with the plastic stock. Also available in a wood stock that's a bit heavier but would be easy to shorten the LOP on that one. It's still right side ejection but as long as that doesn't bother you I'd definitely give that a look.

Ruger makes a dedicated LH 10/22 as well but it's one of the more pricey models.

Savage MK2 might be worth looking at too. Bolt action, not semi, but available in a proper LH setup, reasonably light (5.5lb ballpark IIRC) and has a shorter LOP.
 
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I would save up and go with the Ruger version. You’ll have it forever. Pay once instead of getting a righty version that’s regretted after. That’s just what I would go with because I haven’t heard of anything better.
Also: I’ve made the mistake of buying stuff I didn’t like, only to lose money in the process of selling used and later getting what I should have in the first place.
 
Savage makes a few lefty options both semi-auto and bolt. The other true lefty semi-auto is a Ruger Custom Shop Competition. But they are pricey.

The Browning SA is good but expensive. You might be able to find the Norinco clone option. They work good both left and right.

Otherwise you will need to go bolt for more options.

The RH stuff does work and I’ve tried a fair few but always end up with powder blasted towards my face and getting hit with the odd empty casing.

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Stay away from the norinkco junk.
Life is complicated’nuff to ha ve to deal with chit.
 

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Stay away from the norinkco junk.
Life is complicated’nuff to ha ve to deal with chit.

I never had a problem with mine. Put a few thousand rounds down range and the open sights were actually bang on.

I have heard about others not being as lucky though so Kamlooky does make a good point and be careful.

I only bought one cause it was 100$

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Can’t beat the Browning S/A 22. Good ambidextrous rifle that’s heirloom worthy.

My own was purchased new by my grandfather, passed down to my mother and now to me. It will become my daughters now in a few years. Still looks and shoots great. The Belgian made ones like mine (mare more desirable BUT are just Not good for use with optics. The Japanese made models with the drilled and tapped barrels are better for this.

Only caution is when shooting in long sleeves I have caught a few hot casings down the sleeve.
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I've been using a volquartsen superlite in a taccom ultra light weight chasis with stock. (Chassis is full delrin, handguard and stock carbon fiber)

18.5" barrel, muzzle device, chassis&stock with aimpoint acro c2 scalarworks mount 4.1lbs. It's an aluminum receiver 10/22 with upgraded internals and match barrel and trigger

I shoot strictly left handed no issues mag dump after dump next to nothing hitting my face.

My wife can shoot it no problem off hand.
 
Ruger makes a dedicated LH 10/22 as well but it's one of the more pricey models.

If a fellow was to look at a site that rhymes with "FunBroker" they might find a Ruger 10/22 Competition in LEFT hand, for a deeply discounted price.

I have no affiliation with the seller. I saw the advert when I was looking for a 10/22 Competition.

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You might want to consider a Rem. nylon 66, no longer in production, but available.
I'm a lefty, and the only thing that annoys me, are the right handed safeties.
The nylon 66 has a tang safety, and they are very light.
 
I bought my wife a Rossi RS22. A Mossberg 702 Plinkster is the same gun, but sold by Mossberg.
The Rossi was under $200 on sale, and it's had 0 failures. Weighs under 4 pounds dry and it accepts the Plinkster's 25 round magazines.
I shoot it left-handed with no issues.
I liked it so much - I bought one for myself.
 
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