For those of you in your right mind.

[chuck nelson]

No s**t! Did that a few times before deciding I didn't want to do it anymore. My flinter is the only LH firearm I own.

I don't really understand why people want to have left handed guns in the first place. With a few ambi controls it is fairly easy to adapt to just about any right handed firearm. I don't really even think of them in terms of being right handed. Just that this is the way they are and I need to learn to operate them to the left.

We lefties grow up in a right handed world and we spend our entire lives learning to adapt to things that were not made for us. Why is it such a big deal to continue on with this when it comes to a gun?

The biggest argument against lefty guns is they are a serious ##### to get rid of once you are tired of them. With only 15% of the population being left handed that makes the potential pool of purchasers very small.

One of the dumber things I've read.

 

[Leeper]

When left handed rifles are for sale, lefties are pretty happy to see them so are possibly more likely to buy.
I shoot left handed but have never owned a left handed rifle. It is really strange to work with them when building them and even when testing them. I'm not really left handed so I always feel a bit awkward and would likely be unable to make quick followup shots in either case. Given my hunting credo of "one shot, one miss", it probably doesn't matter much anyway.
When I build a rifle for myself, I often compromise stock design a bit so as to make it ambidexterous and broaden it's appeal if I should decide to sell it. Since I seldom sell anything, I don't know why I bother.
On this rifle, I do kind of like the barrel contour. It reflects D'Arcy's desire to incorporate something visibly unique and identifiable in his rifle. The same is true of the scope mounts. Given the cost of the Legend rifles, having a left handed pre-64 action made would not be out of the question for them and this might be the next step for Echols to take for left and right handed rifles. An Echols designed action should be a pretty good one.
I like Echol's adherence to the blued steel look for his rifles. This is recognition that anyone who will spend that much money on a rifle, won't mind taking care of it. It just looks right. I understand and appreciate people's desire to have stainless steel rifles but I just like blue. Regards, Bill