D.Camilleri
Well-Known Member
Re: Left Hand Rifles - How much interest is there in "Ready To Ship" left hand rifles
Being a lefty, I am biased. I got my first left handed rifle 39 years ago thanks to my dad knowing that teaching me to hunt would be better if I didn't have to struggle with a right handed gun. My first rifle was a Savage 110 3006 that I used for many years until I bought my first left hand remington 7 mm. Followed by a remington 700 338 wm and then when remington introduced the 338 ultra in left hand, I had to have one and traded in my 3006 and my 7mm. They were grabbed up in less than a week. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have rebarreled both of those guns to different calibers. With all of this being said, all of the left handed guns that I have bought, I only found one on the shelf, the rest I had to order. Offering left handed guns is great, having one ready for immediate sale might not turn over fast enough to make it worthwhile. The other day I was on remingtons web site to see if the xcr was made in left hand in 338 rum and it is not. So the only other option is spending three times as much on a lefty from the custom shop. Kind of sad, but it is business. Weatherby also used to offer quite a few lefty's also, but they too are now mostly custom shop guns. The problem for me is that for 700.00 I might buy a few more guns, but for 3000.00 I will stay with my one custom gun from now on.
On another note, two years ago I decided to start hunting waterfowl again and wanted a autoloader. The only left handed choice was a Benelli and at two and one half times the cost of most others I ended up with a mossberg right handed 3.5 auto and it works great for me so far.
Being a lefty, I am biased. I got my first left handed rifle 39 years ago thanks to my dad knowing that teaching me to hunt would be better if I didn't have to struggle with a right handed gun. My first rifle was a Savage 110 3006 that I used for many years until I bought my first left hand remington 7 mm. Followed by a remington 700 338 wm and then when remington introduced the 338 ultra in left hand, I had to have one and traded in my 3006 and my 7mm. They were grabbed up in less than a week. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have rebarreled both of those guns to different calibers. With all of this being said, all of the left handed guns that I have bought, I only found one on the shelf, the rest I had to order. Offering left handed guns is great, having one ready for immediate sale might not turn over fast enough to make it worthwhile. The other day I was on remingtons web site to see if the xcr was made in left hand in 338 rum and it is not. So the only other option is spending three times as much on a lefty from the custom shop. Kind of sad, but it is business. Weatherby also used to offer quite a few lefty's also, but they too are now mostly custom shop guns. The problem for me is that for 700.00 I might buy a few more guns, but for 3000.00 I will stay with my one custom gun from now on.
On another note, two years ago I decided to start hunting waterfowl again and wanted a autoloader. The only left handed choice was a Benelli and at two and one half times the cost of most others I ended up with a mossberg right handed 3.5 auto and it works great for me so far.
