You are correct I messed up the list. Dose not change the fact that some do, I have seen it. I never said they all did or many did, you declared that none ever did.
Shawn
should left hand shooters using right hand rifles be worried about case rupture
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You are correct I messed up the list. Dose not change the fact that some do, I have seen it. I never said they all did or many did, you declared that none ever did.
Shawn
I am not left handed. Just my eye dominance is
I shoot all right handed rifles, shotguns etc on the left side as a result
I cannot cycle left hand guns on the left side
I shot right for about 20 years but could never get my scores I required until I switched to the left side and now over 25 years on the left side
Cheers
My Dad is left handed and has a Browning A5 with a left hand activated crossbolt safety, that I own now. That's the closest I've come to ever owning a "left handed" gun. Despite owning many firearms and being at the range more days than I am not, I have never aspired to own a left hand operated rifle. The only LH bolt guns I've used belong to friends that I was working up a load for or just trying out.
Perhaps interesting is that virtually all the LH bolt guns I've used printed about an inch right to the owners zero.
Perhaps interesting is that virtually all the LH bolt guns I've used printed about an inch right to the owners zero.
That’s because you are cross eyed dominant.
Nope, I'm Right handed and right eye dominant. Shooting a rifle set up for a LH person with RH.
I've seen hundreds of left handed people miss targets to the left with rifles set up by me (right handed) When I see them hitting left I tell them to aim right of center, and they hit the target. This is mostly with red dot sights.
Because I get to see thousands of (mostly first time) shooters, I've learned lots of things.Most people are RH and right eye dominant,but there are plenty of cross dominant people. For reasons I don't know Asian people are more likely to be cross dominant, too.
I was kidding and referring to you being cross eyed.
But, there seems to be an issue with you going on here. Lots of left and right handed shooters in my family (including cross eye dominance) and we don’t seem to have this issue. Hmm.
But, there seems to be an issue with you going on here. Lots of left and right handed shooters in my family (including cross eye dominance) and we don’t seem to have this issue. Hmm.
I don't think it is uncommon for different shooters to shoot in different places with the same rifle. I first experienced that in 1969 and it stuck with me since then... 3 of us shot 3 shots each on the same target with the same rifle... and you could see each group slightly apart from one another. All in elevation.
Yes rifle and handgun no big deal for most but how many can break 50 or 100 clay targets straight with a shotgun on a regular basis. NONE IMO
Totally different animal with a shotgun and moving targets and they rupture shells just like a rifle would
Most change hands for shotgun shooting to match the eye so the rest follows with all other types of shooting
Cheers
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Have a gunsmith fella we both know, he shoots some 3 gun when he isn’t finger painting. More to the point he has a part time job that pays for being a part time gunsmith. Works with his hands and has lots of dexterity left hand people tend to have more dexterity as it’s a right hand world.
Loading a pump or semi auto shotgun that is right handed for a lefty is pretty fast. So fast in-fact he is looking for a left handed pump to compete with as he is a righty.
Not a rifle story but a true story.
