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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="Chopaka81" data-source="post: 246623" data-attributes="member: 9217"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have shot Southpaw all of my hunting life (which began in 1970). My dad started me out with a Win M88 Lever action in 243, I was oldest - but I had two brothers behind me that were righties (like dad). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I got busy mowing lawns and saving every cent I earned, and eventually found a Left handed Mauser M3000LH barreled action in 7mm Rem Mag. I ordered a stock for it and had it inletted. I still have that rifle and I would never part with it. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If you are left eye dominate but right handed in your sports, eating, hand writing and etc, I think with most big game hunting situations you can get by sticking to a right handed bolt action and suffer no ill effects. I find that I can get by shooting from the right side, but I do have to mentally think about it when I mount the rifle and prepare for the shot. It is not natural for me to shoot right handed. If you find yourself in the same boat - stick with a left handed rifle. If you do not like the limited calibers available, get used to having to pay an extra $1000 to have a donar rifle rebarreled to a caliber of your liking.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">However, if you get into clay targets and shotguns, or competitive pistol (or law enforcement) and find you are cross dominate you will struggle becoming proficient in these activities. You will need to overcome the left eyed dominance vs. right hand physical dominance issue. The technique I have used when teaching trap shooting to cross dominance shooters most of the time involved a small 1/4" dot of Scotch Tape positioned on the "off" eye piece of the shooting glasses so it would only obstruct the bead at the end of the barrel, but not restrict peripheral vision. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If you play the pistol game get some professional coaching. Or else you will go out and learn a bunch of bad habits, wasting 1000's of rounds, and then have to hire a coach to un-do the bad habits and teach you the proper techniques.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chopaka81, post: 246623, member: 9217"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I have shot Southpaw all of my hunting life (which began in 1970). My dad started me out with a Win M88 Lever action in 243, I was oldest - but I had two brothers behind me that were righties (like dad). [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I got busy mowing lawns and saving every cent I earned, and eventually found a Left handed Mauser M3000LH barreled action in 7mm Rem Mag. I ordered a stock for it and had it inletted. I still have that rifle and I would never part with it. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]If you are left eye dominate but right handed in your sports, eating, hand writing and etc, I think with most big game hunting situations you can get by sticking to a right handed bolt action and suffer no ill effects. I find that I can get by shooting from the right side, but I do have to mentally think about it when I mount the rifle and prepare for the shot. It is not natural for me to shoot right handed. If you find yourself in the same boat - stick with a left handed rifle. If you do not like the limited calibers available, get used to having to pay an extra $1000 to have a donar rifle rebarreled to a caliber of your liking.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]However, if you get into clay targets and shotguns, or competitive pistol (or law enforcement) and find you are cross dominate you will struggle becoming proficient in these activities. You will need to overcome the left eyed dominance vs. right hand physical dominance issue. The technique I have used when teaching trap shooting to cross dominance shooters most of the time involved a small 1/4" dot of Scotch Tape positioned on the "off" eye piece of the shooting glasses so it would only obstruct the bead at the end of the barrel, but not restrict peripheral vision. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]If you play the pistol game get some professional coaching. Or else you will go out and learn a bunch of bad habits, wasting 1000's of rounds, and then have to hire a coach to un-do the bad habits and teach you the proper techniques.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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