Left handed AR opinions

forjoe

Anybody have a left handed Rock River? Everybody loves Stag but the ones I've seen, seem like right handed lowers with a LH upper. The Rock Rivers look like LH rifles. Any other manufactures I should look at?
Thanks

Jim Rau

quote:Originally posted by forjoe
Anybody have a left handed Rock River? Everybody loves Stag but the ones I've seen, seem like right handed lowers with a LH upper. The Rock Rivers look like LH rifles. Any other manufactures I should look at?
Thanks
I shoot left handed and would not want to give up the advantages of using the RH AR's and pump shotguns.
Now bolt action are completely different.
When you shoot an AR or shotgun from the left you can see the ejection port with your right eye and you 'see' a problem and correct it before the RH shooter is even aware he has a problem. Not to mention if you are in 'combat' as a LEO or Military, you may find a need to use another weapon and it will be bass ackwards from your LH weapon.
Just an observation of someone who has shot LH all my live with two tours in combat and 30+ years in LE.
But to each his own!!!![;)]

forjoe

This one is going to be a lefty. I was going to just swap the upper on my SP1, but then I went in to Fernwood Firearms and got the bug...


quote:Originally posted by Jim Rau
quote:Originally posted by forjoe
Anybody have a left handed Rock River? Everybody loves Stag but the ones I've seen, seem like right handed lowers with a LH upper. The Rock Rivers look like LH rifles. Any other manufactures I should look at?
Thanks
I shoot left handed and would not want to give up the advantages of using the RH AR's and pump shotguns.
Now bolt action are completely different.
When you shoot an AR or shotgun from the left you can see the ejection port with your right eye and you 'see' a problem and correct it before the RH shooter is even aware he has a problem. Not to mention if you are in 'combat' as a LEO or Military, you may find a need to use another weapon and it will be bass ackwards from your LH weapon.
Just an observation of someone who has shot LH all my live with two tours in combat and 30+ years in LE.
But to each his own!!!![;)]

armilite

I have a lefty gun that I put together using DPMS parts and it was a piece of junk. I converted everything to Stag and it now works great. This one with the Colt lower and DPMS upper parts. The upper was all DPMS except for the barrel.
I'll stick with the Stag.


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Laredo Lefty

My wife bought me a DPMS left hand upper I built into this gun. It has a right hand lower but Iam used to the controls, so it works great. Its very accurate and reliable with a Chip McCormick drop in trigger unit.

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Mobuck

I had a guy ask me just last week about a lefty upper for his daughter. I suggested he let her shoot the standard one he had and see if any problems arose. If not I'd install an ambi selector and call it good. He hasn't called back. Looks like I blew a sale. Don't think he was going to pop for the price of a Stag "L" upper anyway.
When using my Son's assisted sighting setup, my face is in about the same posistion as a left handed shooter's face would be and I've not had any problem so far. It might be different on a slick side upper with no deflector.