Recommendations on a Leftie friendly or ambi rimfire pistol

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Hello CGN,

I am looking for suggestions on a rimfire pistol suitable for a left handed shooter.

My left handed son has decided he wants to learn to shoot handguns. I'd like to start him off with a rimfire since it's low recoil and ammo is cheap. All my pistols have right hand controls only so I am looking at picking up a lefty friendly pistol to get him started.

I would also prefer something fully ambidextrous so I can use it too but as a fall back would be interested in one that is leftie only.

One possibility that comes to mind is an Advantage Arms .22 conversion kit for a Glock.

All other suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks for reading.
 
Just out of curiously....

He's left handed but is he left eye dominant?

Ruger SR22???
 
as a lefty I can say it's probably better just to learn on a right handed hand gun. it really isn't that difficult and then you have a wide variety of guns available. Having said that I do like the mag release location on the Smith and Wesson 22a.
 
The advantage arms kit is the way to go, IMO

A glock is a simple tool for him to learn on, and a familiar platform for when he's ready to step up to a 9mm. Aesthetically they leave much to be desired, but a striker fired polymer semi auto devoid of manual safeties and/or decockers, etc is as simple as it gets for a new shooter.

Plus, if he can master a stock glock trigger, he'll be that much better off when he moves onto almost anything else
 
As a lefty, and fussy about rifles, I shoot most handguns fine, as long as they don't have right hand specific grips.

For a target pistol I recommend S&W Victory (over Ruger IV). It is a good gun. It's good value, and it has small grips and weight for a younger person.

If, instead, the idea is to hack about, in anticipation, of learning center fire, then a 1911 in 22lr is good. With ambi-safety, 1911s are left friendly. Except the mag release. In compensation, the slide release is easier left handed than right.

1911/22lr is a bad target gun. They all require the highest power 22 ammo you can get. For target shooting, you want the lowest power.
 
It’s more money but buying quality up front means you don’t have to upgrade later.
You could also post a WTB ad on the EE for a quality used one, lots show up there.

S&W’s premier target 22 pistol, the venerable model 41. Some of the later models have friendlier LH grips & a company called Altamont makes impressive LH grips for the 41. My older version 41 had the dual hump grips & I just took a wood file to the left side & relieved that hump.
 
Ruger Mk-II or IV

I'm left handed, and learned on a Ruger.

Ambi controls are not really necessary on a pistol - you rack the slide instead of using the release, you learn to hit the mag release with your trigger finger, and in a target pistol you're either shooting it, or it's unloaded, making the safety a non-issue.

That being said the IV has ambi safety and the II a heel mag release

Otherwise: revolver, like a classic model 17 Smith. Revolvers are possibly more lefty than righty friendly, when it comes to the manipulations of reloading
 
shms said:
as a lefty I can say it's probably better just to learn on a right handed hand gun. it really isn't that difficult and then you have a wide variety of guns available. Having said that I do like the mag release location on the Smith and Wesson 22a.
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Same here, the only right handed control I can’t use is the right hand thumb safety on 1911’s that don’t have and ambi thumb safety. Everything else I’m fine with the right hand control, I swapped the mag release on my M&P9 at some point and I had gotten so used to using it in the factory setting that I swapped it back lol.
 
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