My father built beautiful black powder rifles right up until the time that he could not physically do it any longer. Neither my brother nor I are black powder shooters, but Dad built us both rifles that he gave to us for Christmas several years ago. He built my brother a percussion rifle and he gave me a flintlock. I shoot left-handed. I was surprised when mine was a right-handed rifle...especially since it was a flintlock. I asked him about it and he, very openly, told me that he had intended to build me a left-handed rifle, but once he got into it, it was just too difficult. He had never built one before and he realized quickly that it was going to be beyond his abilities. He wasn't going to be satisfied with the result, so he chose to stick with what he knew and build a beautiful right-handed rifle rather than a half-baked left-handed one. I personally have never seen a left-handed flintlock. I'm sure they're out there, but I've never seen one.