Yet another curiosity question.

gajinoz

gajinoz

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Do the major manufacturers of handguns make left hand versions?

I know you can get LH versions of competition grade shotguns.
 
Gaj, you should just email the gun companies and ask them.
I'm sure they'd be glad to help you!
Just do a Google search on what ever maker you're interested in checking out and click on their contact link and ask away!
Good luck my friend!!!
 
L6steel said:
Gaj, you should just email the gun companies and ask them.
I'm sure they'd be glad to help you!
Just do a Google search on what ever maker you're interested in checking out and click on their contact link and ask away!
Good luck my friend!!!
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Yeah, that's a good idea, but I just thought I'd ask the collective wisdom here on BF, I figured somebody would know the answer. :)
 
There have a few left handed models made but very few and none currently except for a few customs. Most handguns that are currently made are ambidextrous or can easily be made that way.
 
Absintheur said:
There have a few left handed models made but very few and none currently except for a few customs. Most handguns that are currently made are ambidextrous or can easily be made that way.
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OK, interesting. If they can be made ambi, does this mean that, if you are firing a semi auto, the spent cases can be made to eject to the left, so they are not whizzing across your face?
 
Most you can change the mag release and some possibly the slide release and or safety?

Most folks fire using a weaver style stance and I would not think which ever way the brass is being chucked out would have that much effect.

Now a shotgun or rifle that you snug up to shoulder/cheek that would/could be different.
I shoot a Browning BPS... dumps them out the bottom.
 
gajinoz said:
OK, interesting. If they can be made ambi, does this mean that, if you are firing a semi auto, the spent cases can be made to eject to the left, so they are not whizzing across your face?
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Most tend to eject up and to the right at a speed and trajectory high enough so it shouldn't matter. If you are using a two handed grip the pistol is likely centered on your face, this would actually make it less friendly for a right hander as the ejected round would, in most cases, be passing through the shooters master eye field of vision. I shoot left handed quit often, in many competitions it is required, the ejected brass has never bothered me.

Iron City said:
Most you can change the mag release and some possibly the slide release and or safety?
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Most of the time it is actually easier to operate a slide release with the index finger as is the mag release. On a 1911 those two controls are actually better set up for a left handed shooter. And an ambi safety and it is just about ideal.
 
Of course, the difference is just which side of the gun the controls, safety, decocker, slide release, mag release, etc., are on. On many guns now, some or all of the controls are actually on both sides. In other cases, the controls can be assembled on either side. In some cases, the controls aren't symetical and so you have to buy a little "lefty" kit which consists of just different lever parts; it's very inexpenive and you'll tuck the right-handed controls into the corner of the box and you can convert back in thirty seconds if you ever want to.
 
Wow, eject out te other side.

While I've never designed a gun, as an engineer, I can begin to imagine what it would take to do that. With the exception of maybe the recoil spring assembly, I think it would change every major part of the gun. The expense of all of those changes would be huge... almost like designing another gun. And the market isn't large enough to justify that expense.
 
Randell made a 1911 that had the ejection port on the left, currently there are several custom 1911 builders that make them. Not really a big deal, the Steyr Aug can be made into a left hand ejection port gun with just a bolt change, the stock is already cut for it.
 
Charter arms makes a left-handed .38 snubby. I just got one, butt I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet.
 
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