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How many leftys out there?

4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I throw left handed,shoot a bow left handed,bat right handed,shoot guns right handed.As yall probably can tell do not know which hand to use.The bad thing about being left handed,everything is made for right handers.

"It was like that when I got here".
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know alot of lefties and if you put efford to it you will find stuff tha will fit you fine.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • armed_ femalearmed_ female Member Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yep 4wheeler, I have similar problem. I write left handed but have always bowled, shot, etc. with my right hand. A few months ago I started having trouble with my right elbow. That's when snarlgard suggested I try shooting with my left hand, and since I am left eye dominate, this seemed like a good idea. Only problem is, I am equally lethal with either hand!!! But you are right, it's all for right handers, but keep this in mind: The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body..so we are really the ONLY ONES IN OUR RIGHT MIND! (did I say that?)

    Gun Control is Hitting Your Target!
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  • jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Im strange Like that too.... I am for sure a lefty, but I can write with either hand, I play Golf righthanded, Switch hit in Baseball, but only throw left Handed. I shoot my rifles left handed, but I really dont care If there for lefties or not....Handguns primarily are left sided for me also, but Ive been working on my off hand shooting.

    lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am basicly left handed. I write left handed, but I golf and bat right handed. I shoot bow and firearms left handed.

    When I was in first grade (1964) my teacher announced that left handed people were not normal and made three of us change to right hand. When one of us did anything with our left hand she would rap the offending child with a ruler....She was fired the year after I had her.

    I do get tired of the lack of left handed bolt action rifles and left hand shotguns. When I do find one it sell for 40.00 or more than a right handed firearm. I can't even guess about the amount of money I have spent having Amb. safeties put on my semi-autos.

    I'll stop whining now...

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My son is a lefty when it comes to writing, baseball and shooting a rifle or shotgun but shoots a bow righthanded. I'm glad he can shoot the bow right handed becasue every stinking bow shop we go to has to special order a lefty bow for xtra$$
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Armed-Female---I forgot my left eye is dominate also.I may try shooting left handed, may just work.
    William81----I knew some parents made their young son switch to being right handed because they thought being left handed was not normal.
    Hey do not get me started on trying to find a left-handed bow!!
    "It was like that when I got here".

    Edited by - 4wheeler on 08/11/2002 00:50:39

    Edited by - 4wheeler on 08/11/2002 01:08:12
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  • DuckDuck Member Posts: 57 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    William81, I had that teacher stood over me with a ruler until I wrote with my right hand. Still don't write very well but, I write right handed.
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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    4Wheeler
    Face it you live in a right handed world. I would have been semi- handicapped like yourself if not for loving parents when i was in diapers and it didn't make 2 hoots in hell to me which hand i used. they loved and guided me in the right direction If you are truly intrested in becomming normal,stop using your left hand for anything and granted you have a reasonable amt. of unused gray matter between your ears,like most of us and you are truly commited in a short period of time you will be able to use either hand, for if you so desire and don't give up you can teach the right hand everything that the left one already knows. Good luck in your endeavors.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a left handed person which supposedly makes me "right-brained," and I do have a more artistic aptitude as a result, and am better at creative stuff than math. I shoot, eat, bat, throw a ball and write left handed. I have good dexterity in both hands because of 10 years of classical piano lessons, and the fact that I do a lot of typing. But I do very few things naturally with my right hand other than play lead parts on the piano, so I'm not really ambidextrous. I do not have problems with guns, though I avoid those most obviously designed for proper use by right-handers only.



    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • Captain 241Captain 241 Member Posts: 377 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ok guys here it goes. Write, eat, shoot a rifle, drink, used to smoke, dominate eye, kick a ball, all with the left hand or foot. Now the right side, throw a ball, bowl, shoot a bow, pistol, hockey stick. In the service they made me shoot right-handed, just barely qualified. Well thats my story and I'm sticking to IT.

    If you need a Second Shot, YOU NEED MORE PRACTICE
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shoot a gun and shoot pool lefthanded. everything else right handed.


    GUNBROKER"S ICON SHOOTS LEFTHANDED

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    AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

    To the stars through difficulties
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Shoot lefty bow and rifle, but that's all I do left handed. I am weird I reckon.


    ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
    Will270win@nraonline.com
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....sorry, I'm right handed....but left eye dominate.
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  • almagunsalmaguns Member Posts: 88 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a full lefty. You learn all kinds of tricks to get by. Like shoot o/u or Browning shotguns, Autos with tang safeties work well, single shots are great and some guns are cast and some are straight stocked.
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    left handed and do every thing with my left hand.
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  • ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right handed ,shoot rifle left handed & handgun right handed out of left eye. (Left Eye Dom.)



    ATF
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lefty here. I can shoot either side. Throw either side. Bat either side. I'm left eye dominant though so lefty is my natural side. First grade teacher tried to get me to write right side. I kept turning my paper for lefty. She'd turn it back to righty. I finally figured, if she was gonna' be that hard-headed, I'd just leave it right-sided and that's why I write up-side down.

    Mudge the ambivalent (Did I say that right?)

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, very ambidextrous, but still write and draw with right. shoot mostly left, but like something cold in both hands. generally i carry two cause i like both hands to know what each is doing. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    WHAT IS GOLF????? No - I know - just very bad at it, they won't let me carry my shotgun in the bag. Lefty all the way here, mostly due to deformed right hand and arm. I do shoot left, but work the bolt with my right.
    I am sure there is some group conspiracy against lefties. Can we claim hate crimes when they rob us because we are left handed. I think we should have special laws made to keep righties from forcing us into doing things right handed. I'm sure I can sue somebody over this (if you know me - you know I'm just kiddin). 4Wheeler - I have the same saying on my hardhat - "It was like that when I got here"

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    I am ambidextrous.............I can't do anything with either hand, lol.

    But I am left handed.

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • The LawThe Law Member Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LEFT HANDERS RULE

    "Don't mistake my honesty for weakness...
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    I am glad to see that I am not the only weird person who cannot figure out which hand to use.
    dads-freehold----both hands deal,that was a good one

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i am ambi but left eye dom so i shoot left handed exp. if i'm shooting long dist. but my strong arm is the right so i shoot my bow right handed

    you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I`m a righty in ever way
    but if ya don`t let me
    join this little club of your`n,
    I will sue for sicrimtination![{:(]

    Then you won`t even have a club!

    Point Two Eighteen
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  • BufflerBuffler Member Posts: 821 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am R.H. LEFT EYE Dom, shoot left, right, don't matter. Rifle
    Pistol, shotgun. Ever shoot a Flintlock M.L. Lefthanded? The
    Flash in front of your eyes are BLINDING,spitting gas,etc.
    Used a leather patch,R Eye to cover.BE SAFE!! Buffler
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you can't tell your right from your left wouldn't you be lexdyslic?



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    To the stars through difficulties
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Hey Bee,I will not hold it against you for being right handed,I WILL MAKE AN EXCEPTION AND YOU CAN JOIN!

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • kaliforniankalifornian Member Posts: 475 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lefty by habit and thus am better at most things with my left hand but am nearly ambidextrous in most things. Much better with a rapier or knife in my left hand, and haven't really tried shooting much with my right hand. Can use a bow with either hand. This topic made me curious so I'll try out the right hand at the range tomorrow night and see how it handles a handgun and shotgun.

    So many guns, so little money . . .
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I admit to thinking about going to a two gun rig to see how I'd like it. I currently carry a double mag holder on the off-side, but they say the fastest reload is a second gun. This is not easy in the summertime with a CCW, of course, but could be done, theoretically at least, in the winter. With one gun, Condition 3 (with chamber empty) is realistic because one can rack the slide with the off-hand during the draw. If one carries two guns, but only draws one at a time, I'm not sure if I'd prefer to train my off-hand to shoot. I'd almost rather practice a drill wherein both guns were drawn together, aimed at the target, and fired either together or alternately. That would mean chamber loaded carry and a safe trigger, at least light double action. Either that, or a matched pair of guns with ambidextrous (or changeable) safeties so that a safety was available under each thumb. We haven't heard much about true two-gun drills since the cowboy wild west shooting demonstrations at circuses and such. But at one time, two guns were not all that uncommon. I believe gun writer Jerry Ahern used to carry a double rig with two Detonics .45s. It would be interesting to know if any of the special ops are carrying two matched handguns and practicing simultaneous draw, aim, and shoot drills. My guess is that you would have to look straight ahead at the target and learn to fire the guns from within your line of sight, but aligning the sights in a modified fashion, and discharging rounds in rapid, alternating fire. Sound plausible?

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    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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