We have more than our share of southpaws in this family, to the tune that I currently have three (3) southpaw bolt guns on layaway for grandsons. We've learned that the safety on the old Browning Auto-5 is easy to switch over. One of my sons is shooting his grandpa's auto-five and the gunsmith swapped it over in about five minutes.

Consequently, when I'm perusing the used gun racks I'm always on the lookout for left hand pumps and bolt guns. I wish that the gun companies would make a nice, affordable left-hand pump shotgun. I'd buy a couple of them. All the grandkids aren't born yet, and I bet I'd need them.

I'm right handed but left eye dominant so I either shoot my rifles left handed or right handed with a patch over my left eye. All of my rifles are right handed bolt actions I have a right handed autoloader shot gun and a pump shot gun that I shoot right handed.

Sayfu,
I only have to use the patch with a rifle; it's not really a patch but a flip down cover like an outfielder's flip down sun shades. In the field with a rifle I shoot left handed I just practice with both.

Jim..I like the safety there as well, but sadly recognized a safety issue as well after years using an O/U with a tang safety. You can do it right now without a gun in your hand. Take your thumb, and shove it forward as you would to take off the safety. Notice what happens with your trigger finger? It pulls the trigger!! So don't have your trigger finger inside the trigger guard when you remove the safety. I blew a hole in a ditch bank close to one of my bird dogs when some huns flushed off the side of the ditch bank. Scared the bejesus out of me. And it took me a day to figure out how it happened. I thought the safety had mal-functed. Now I have my hand away from the trigger area until the safety is off, then the finger goes into the guard.

I have used remington rifle and shotguns for many years.And winchesters, and savages and many others,and what I have found out is that most guns are the same.The gun you shoot is because of personel preference. I use remington,not because it is any better, but because it is what I like. No gun shoots any streighter than another,its all about the guy pulling the trigger.

Two words: tang safety.

I'm the same way, Phil. I'm left-handed and learned to shoot on with a right-handed 870 Wingmaster. It is much more natural for me to load and operate a RH shotgun than left, and I have become so accustomed to reaching under the trigger gaurd to flip the safety that it comes natural. However, I did pick up a RH Maxus last year that I absolutely love. If it's as easy as you claim to change over the safety I may give it a try.

My dad used right handed shotguns and rifles on his left shoulder all his life. He never bought a left handed gun of any kind and never complained about his right handed ones. When I suggested that he reverse the safties on his A-5 and Ithaca 37 he merely smiled and kept shooting them as they came from the factory.
I once told a new physician friend that a local gunstore had a great left handed Weatherby Fibermark in .270 for sale. He bought it and added it to numerous other rifles in his display cases. He told me that it took some time to adjust to the left handed rifle and once he had accomlished this transition he found his right handed guns to be no longer very serviceable for him. On many hunting trips with him over 20+ years he always took the Weatherby unless it is to Africa with the Heym .470 double which of course works equally as well for him or for me a right handed guy. His left eye is dominant but he is right handed.

Sayfu: you shouldn't have your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire, regardless of where the safety is located.

Zack Man: 30.06 is a good all-around round for just about anything in North America. My 700 is my go-to rifle and would recommend one to anyone. But, and correct me if I'm wrong guys, isn't the Model 70 being produced again? or does it not come in a lefty?

I am left-eye dominant but Dad taught me to shoot right-handed because most guns are made for righties. It doesn't cause any problems with rifle shooting since I'm peering through a scope anyway. In fact, I've learned to shoot rifles (and turkey guns) from either shoulder. But wingshooting/clays with a shotgun? That is another story altogether. I think this is the year I try to switch to lefty so that dominant eye can do what it always wants to do anyway. Skeet range, here I come.

PbHead: You know lefties are typically more intelligent and more artistic than your average rightie, don't you? I don't know about your m-i-l, but its certainly true with me...LOL

When I started out a left handed gun was curiosity. If your dominate eye was the left you cranked your head over. Some thirty years ago my son started shooting and today is a pretty fair hand with shotguns, rifles, and handguns. Left eye dominate, right handed. If the guns had been out there as they are today and we had thought it through as we have today I would have put those lefty guns in his hands. Recently I had some vision problems and tried to teach myself to shoot handguns with my left eye. Rifles were just torture.
As they say, life is full of regrets.

the tang safety would be the best if everyone started out with a hammer gun like i did. my trouble is the safety works backwards for a hammer guy. i know, i'm vastly out-numbered and it's too late to change anything now. i think that would also solve Safu's problem with the tang safety.

I am right handed, but have shot left handed all my life. I am left eye dominant as well. I have never had any problems with using right handed guns. I can fire and reload just as fast as anyone else. It has never been a problem for me. I shoot pistols right handed. No problems there, either.

am left handed and have never had a problem firing a bolt action left handed. when rifle fires right hand slides back to work bolt.by the time rifle comes down from recoili am back on target with fresh shell in chamber.only time i fired right handed was at Parris island with D.I.sfoot in rear

Browning BPS. Will never go back. A great all purpose gun for a midwest lefty hunter. The tang safety is great and if I have a friend who wants to borrow my gun it is easy for them to use as well.

I hunted Pennsylvania whitetails with a little Winchester Mdl 94 for 12 years. Then I switched to a M-16 and convinced the Navy I was a quite capable left-handed shot, shooting expert with it and the .45. Then I bought a Rem. .270 gamemaster, which has killed a lot of blacktail's and Roosevelt elk. Even though I'm right handed for everything else, I'm left eye dominant and quite comfortable shooting from the left. My rifle, shotgun, and pistols all fit me well, and I make no excuses for shooting leftie.

I'm a true southpaw and at first I had to use right-handed firearms as they were the ones loaned to me when I Started hunting. As soon as I started buying my own I went to left-handed bolts, Rem. Mod. 7oo in 7mm mag is my favorite. I would hate to go back to right-handed bolts. As far as shotguns I have 2 bottom eject ithaca 37's, a browning BPS, and numerous side-bysides and over/unders, all of which work well for lefties.