A spectacular group of 11 left-hand Winchester Custom Shop Model 70 rifles, complete with consecutive serial numbers and controlled-round-feeding actions, has just become available for purchase. Calibers are: .243 Winchester, .25-06 Remington, .270 Winchester, 7mm Remington Magnum, 7mm STW, .30-06 Springfield, .300 Winchester Magnum, .338 Winchester Magnum, .35 Whelen, .375 H&H Magnum, and .416 Remington Magnum.

Based on receivers taken from the original prototype run of 40 left-hand actions (ten were built as test rifles and subsequently destroyed, 11 were used for this group, and almost all the rest were returned to production), each was hand-built by the USRAC Senior Design Engineer responsible for the Model 70 program in the 1990s. Himself a lefty, he created these rifles for his own use, yet never took them afield. All remain in unfired condition with only light handling and storage wear.

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Here's the gunbroker link, buy it now at $75,100


http://www.gunbroker.com/item/615465521

No surprise they didn't sell, considering starting bid was around 8-times their market value.

Well you know as well as I do that growing up in a right handed world seriously handy caps you in using LH rifles,at least to me.I can work a right hand action in the same speed + accuracy because I have been doing it all my life.I must confess that with a bullpup design that is different for obvious reasons.

Not me. All my bolt guns are left handed, I even have a left handed AR15. I also grew up with right handed rifles but I bought a left handed Remington 788 in 1975 and since then every bolt gun that I've bought for my own use has been left handed.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
Not me. All my bolt guns are left handed, I even have a left handed AR15. I also grew up with right handed rifles but I bought a left handed Remington 788 in 1975 and since then every bolt gun that I've bought for my own use has been left handed.

Same here. A left handed bolt is always the better option due to the safety of the action design.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
Well you know as well as I do that growing up in a right handed world seriously handy caps you in using LH rifles,at least to me.I can work a right hand action in the same speed + accuracy because I have been doing it all my life.I must confess that with a bullpup design that is different for obvious reasons.

I just shoot right handed. It solves all the issues.

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Originally posted by buckeyeshooter:

I just shoot right handed. It solves all the issues.

Along with being left handed, my left eye is really dominant. I practice right handed all the time though but I am much faster left handed.

My middle daughter is right handed but left eye dominant so she shoots left handed also.

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Originally posted by Snowwolfe:

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Originally posted by Fjold:
Not me. All my bolt guns are left handed, I even have a left handed AR15. I also grew up with right handed rifles but I bought a left handed Remington 788 in 1975 and since then every bolt gun that I've bought for my own use has been left handed.

Same here. A left handed bolt is always the better option due to the safety of the action design.

Agreed. I had a case head failure with a 270 Savage 110 and the jet of gasses vented through the safety hole blew a 50 round box of loaded ammo off the bench to my left. I don't want to think what would have happened to my right hand if the hole had been on the other side.