George,

Good luck. I have sent both CZ and Ruger "E's" as to their possible building of left handed DGR. Not so much as a no thank you from either. Got to be the bottom line boys deciding on the idea. Would love to get a lefty in either.

Roger QSL

George,

Ron Shirk Shooting Supplies in Lebanon, PA (717) 272-5671 is a distributor who received 3 of the ones they just finished building. I got one. Your dealer could maybe get one of the others.

I like mine. The rear bridge is a little low (common, I guess) so I'll need to use a Leupold shim under the rear scope base.

Please let me know if you're successful. I agree it's hard to find those LH DGR's.

Steve

George,

My research shows that the lefties are 10% of the population, which seems to convince the gun makers that the market is too small. What they don't seem to notice is I find 16.67% of shooters are left-handed, and fully 20% of hunters. Then you have the hunters who are left-eye dominant as well.

You aren't going to just find a suitable as you have found. You have to get lucky when Winchester has some in the pipeline as suggested above, or have the Winchester Custom Shop build a rifle for you.

The Montana Rifleman (M99 action) is now shipping their left hand action, so someone like Jim Brockman could build you a good LH DGR. I know he has built some already and several are in progress, so you would not be the first.

CZ has not built any LH guns, and that is not a common thing for European makers to do.

Email me if you want more info.

jim

there was a m70 458 lott up here at one of the local gun stores some one odered it and then desided they wanted something else they tried to sell it to me but for dg i prefer double guns.

heym of germany i belive makes a 375 left handed bolt rifle

ryan breeding www.rbbigbores.com with definitly do it.

so will searcy.

the montana rifle man or something to that effect will make you a 375 h&h complete rifle barrel action and stock for about 2000$

HunterJim,
I am not familiar with "Montana Rifleman". What is the M99 action? I assume CRF? Do they have a web site?
I was considering getting another LH model 70 Safari Express (I like my .375 H&H) and rebarreling to .450 Ackley. I would like to see this M99 action.
Thanks, Ghost

TG,

The Montana action has been discussed here for about two years. A forum search on this and the gunsmithing forum should provide a lot of interesting reading.

George

I have two Montana LH crf actions on order. Actually, they are ready to be delivered very soon. The Chrone molly is ready but the barreled action in stainless not quite.

The MRC 1999 action is a true CRF, Lefthand, in either Stainless, or chrome moly, It will feed any ultra mag, or true magnum length cartridge-375HH, 416 rem, etc. And the price is right for us lefties. I would look into one. Montana Barrel company makes them, and have a website. Search Montana rifles, barrels, etc.

Keep in mind that the actions aren't finished 100%, but usable as they come. MRC makes them for guys who want a gun made for them. Ask around on the board here, several guys have theirs, and can give you info. Very few companies make CRF for us lefties.

Bottom line is - yeah, there just aren't a lot of options for southpaw big bore CRF rifles. You CAN find one, but unless you luck into a Model 70 Safari Express expect to pay over $1000 at least. But if you are willing to spend that much you can get a really, really good DGR.

When I saw this thread I only thought of the Model 70's at first. I have a custom shop left hand Model 70 in .375 and it's a great rifle but I have always stated on these forums that they are overpriced.

Had not thought of the Montana 1999 action as that was a strictly custom route but now that it is mentioned I remembered that you can get a finished product from them.

Montana Rifle Company and Serengeti Stocks (formerly Accu-Bond, I think) have a close working relationship as the owner of Serengeti used to work for MRC, and the two companies are only a short distance apart in Montana.

You can order a barreled action from Montana, they will polish up the action and make sure everything works. First reports from John Barsness indicate that their barreled actions are good ones and very accurate. Have them send it to Serengeti to be stocked. I don't know the total cost but I'm thinking it will be in the low teens.

Now this is only what I've heard, but apparently for that money you will get a ready to go true DGR that will function with the best of them.

Or, you can get just the Montana action and have the gunsmith of your choice barrel it and do all of the polishing and fitting, and you can order a McMillan stock instead of the wood laminate Serengeti. Any stock McMillan makes for a Winchester can be inletted for the Montana action - they already have the Montana programs for their CNC machines.

Or, John Ricks,Mark Penrod and a whole bunch of other good smiths will build you a world class DGR on any left hand Winchester M70 or Montana 1999 action, standard or magnum bolt face, although they may have to do a bit of milling. Expect to pay anywhere from the mid 2K range on up for a finished rifle.

OR - you can try to find a LH Model 70 Safari Express - they just built a few to meet what had been ordered. As stated above, they don't make excess ones but if you hunt hard you might find one of the new ones.

Or you can order one from their custom shop. It should be a very good rifle but worth maybe $1500, NOT $2700 or whatever they are charging these days. Expect to wait 9 months to a year for a custom shop Winchester.

OR - use a lever action Marlin 1985 in .45-70 - the boys on the Africa board are all just WILD about this one.












(Just being a smart-a$$. If you even whisper the two numbers "45" and "70" in the same paragraph their knees start jerking like marionettes and they will drive you away with sticks. )

I want to thank everyone for their replies. skl1 I am calling them today thanks. Oregon Born I would like to hear more about your Montana rifleman action. I went to their web site.

Would you recommend getting the action with the barrel complete. Is it a crazy idea to consider taking a stainless barreled action like this ,buy a synthetic stock and complete the gun myself? I'll take comments from all who care to answer. I am trying to get quality lefty DGR rifle at the lowest cost. I understand that right now I can buy the Professional Hunter Action at a very good price. How complete is a barreled action? I have never done any gunsmithing but have experience running milling machines and lathes both manual and cnc and have access to them. Other than fitting the barreled action to the stock and pillar bedding how much more is there to do? Would a .375 need any additional supports for recoil?

Thanks in advance for any recommendations and help
George