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Are there any "problems" for a left handed shooter to use a right handed double? Any issues that should be dealt with in terms of changes to triggers, etc? Any pointers on what a LH shooter should do when learning to shoot and handle a right handed double? Thanks! "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | ||
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I have two LH doubles and one RH. The LH doubles have the triggers reversed but the latches work like a RH gun. I have no problem shooting my RH gun. The only thing I have to remember is that on my RH gun the front trigger fires the RH barrel...and on my LH guns the front trigger fires the LH barrel. The only time this is ever important is at the range when I am only wanting to shoot one shot...I have to remember which hole to put the shell in? Other than that...provided that the stock is not cast too much, I don't believe you will have any problems shooting a RH double from the LH shoulder. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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I'm a lefty and shoot a right handed rifle - but adjusted to fit a lefty. I have the triggers twisted so that the pad of my trigger fingur lies on the trigger blade rather than the edge since most triggers on DR's are twisted for a righty. You can have the stock on many rifles bent to give you cast on rather than cast off which most right handed rifles have. This assist in having the eye centered on the sights when the rifle is mounted. I removed the right handed cheek piece on my rifle. While it wasn't much of an issue the front edge of the cheek piece interfered with my left hand wrist a bit when I was mounting the rifle. All but one of my SxS shtguns started life as a righty gun. The one lefty is cast for a lefty but is on a right handed action with the front firing the right barrel. Right handed action = lever to the right opens the gun. I have seen a few totaly left handed guns and rifles. Top lever to the left opend the gun, front trigger left barrel. But opening a gun by pulling the lever to the left is foreign to me. I prefer a right handed action. JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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Agree 100%...when Butch made my rifles he told me that most LH rifles are made with the RH Lever function. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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It really needs to fit. Most RH doubles will have been built with a bit of cast-off, and most lefties need a bit of cast-on. A friend of mine who is a lefty shoots several RH double rifles and simply has them bent. He hasn't had any other issues. Find an experienced doubles smith who regularly does stock bending and have him look at your proposed selection when you find something to see what's feasable. Some are easy to bend, some not, and some are impossible. I only know of one guy in the US who has said he can bend a DR with the long extended top tang (like those used by Holland and others), and he backpedalled a bit last time I spoke to him about it. ----------------------------------------------- "Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder." | |||
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