What's a LEFTY to do?

[Flint62Smoothie]

Would like to buy a Chambers smoothbore kit in a model that is a lefthanded 62 smoothbore ... but all I see is the Isaac Hayes model in left-handed.

Any advice? Thank you and tight groups!

 

[Mike Brooks]

You can be left handed and still shoot a right handed gun. I'm right handed and have shott left handed guns with no problems.
Another point is that left handed guns are hard to resell.

 

[Big John]

Hey Mowrey, Try TVM muzzleloading thier american fowler is $850 finished, kit is $100 less, comes left or right handed. p.s. Going to Saratoga next weekend?

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Hey Mowrey, Try TVM muzzleloading thier american fowler is $850 finished, kit is $100 less, comes left or right handed. p.s. Going to Saratoga next weekend?

Ya I just got one an love it . You may have to bend the barrel yho mine shot very low noiw it;s dead nuts.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I thought he had come out with a left handed Pennsylvania fowler?

 

[Slake]

I have a friend that's a lefty who trained himself to shoot with right handed ball and caps now he's trying to sell his left handed Renegade

 

[Cruzatte]

I'm a left-handed shooter, too. And I wouldn't have any problem shooting a right-handed smoothbore at all. Factory guns, or those that are semi-custom like TVM or Chambers usually have a straight stock; that is neither cast off, nor cast on. Am I right, Mike B.?

Cruzatte

 

[Slamfire]

I have a friend that's a lefty who trained himself to shoot with right handed ball and caps now he's trying to sell his left handed Renegade

I'm a left hander who just might be interested. :thumbsup:

 

[Steve-ALA]

LH Smoothies can be had. I know cause I are one..

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[George F.]

I'm left eye dominate, and like Mike shoot a right handed rifle lefty with no problem. .....George F.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Same here, I own both L&R hand long guns, no real preference betwixt the styles.

 

[Jon in MI]

You could try Pecatonica River, they can make most of their kits with the stock inletted for a lefty. That is how I ordered my Tulle, the only problem is the choice of lock is limited.

Jon

 

[DrTimboone]

Steve-ALA Who built your gun? Did you? I am interested in the stock pattern..Looks familiar

 

[Steve-ALA]

Steve-ALA Who built your gun? Did you? I am interested in the stock pattern..Looks familiar

I wish I could say I did, but don't have the patience or talent. Don Bruton from South Carolina built it. It has a 44" oct to round Colerain barrel and a Wilson lock.

 

[lockjaw]

...fellow southpaw here...i agree w/ everything said about shooting a righty...but priming and carrying in the field is better for me with a lefty...

 

[DrTimboone]

Steve-ALA ...I thought so. I am building a 44" Octagon to round fowler with a caywood Wilson lock from a similar stock pattern. Just getting started reshaping to the fowler architecture in the butt. Not sure why I don't just go ahead and make it a smooth rifle

I built a .54 colonial southern swamped rifle using the same pattern as a starting place as well. I love it! used handforged steel furniture and reshaped the panels a litttle more conventionally than yours is. I have a friend who has a couple of Bruton guns like yours and he loves them!

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Sorry fellas :yakyak: I'll let you get back to the LH stuff,...I am right handed but always shot left handed til the Army where I learned to shoot either side. Now I shoot rt handed flinters.

 

[paulvallandigham]

I am a lefty too. If shooting a gun with the lock on the other side is so wonderful, then why don't all you right handed guys buy left-handed guns to shoot???? Sure would end that problem about resale value, NO?

I recall a day when a very fine rifle and shotgun shooter put my left handed bolt action rifle to his shoulder and looked through the scope. He went to open the bolt to cock the gun, and realized, for the very first time, what we left handed shooters were complaining about, not being able to get left handed guns. I had to show him how to rotate the gun 90 degrees on his shoulder to make the bolt handle available for his right hand to operate. Once he got the hang of it, he was okay. But he was stumped until I showed him how to do it.

I have large hands, and long fingers, so reaching across to cock the hammer on a right handed muzzle loader is not a big inconvenience. My first rifle was right handed. But I shoot better with my left hand gun.

 

[Steve-ALA]

I have a friend who has a couple of Bruton guns like yours and he loves them!

Mr. Boone,

I loved Mr. Bruton's guns the 1st time I saw them. And I really debated over a 54 cal rifle and the smoothbore. Now I want to have a 54 cal rifle built EXACTLY like the smoothie. But Mr. Bruton's site is no longer active and I can't find my contact info for him. I looked at your site and saw additional pics of your gun. Very fine job there. I reckon I'll just have to break down and try my hand at building one some day.

Steve-ALA

 

[Patrick Hand]

I'm a lefty also.... but I have always fired right handed.... I don't think I could fire left handed now.......

My right arm is stronger, but my left hand has finer
muscle control..... I just figure sguezing a trigger is simple compaired to using my better control for aiming......

Of course this may be because that's all I have had to use.......

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Dominate eye normally dictates if one shoots left or right.

They tried to convert me to a righty in the army, (lost cause, at 17, I had already been shooting lefty for years) but the range officer wanted good scores, so he said, "hell, the way he shoots left handed, let him go."