Posted: 3/7/2010 4:49:51 PM EDT
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I took a newbie shooting today and she enjoyed it. But, she is a lefty and everything I brought ( Sig, Glock, and an old High Standard .22 ) is set up for right handed people.
Does anybody make a good left handed pistol? She has small hands and is thinking about buying a handgun for personal defense. Any suggestions? |
| This guy shoots lefty with a non-lefty gun. You just have to adjust the method in which you do things. |
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Manual transmission cars don't come with a lefty option, so everyone learns to drive it with their right hand. Same with a gun. If she learns to do it right handed from the beginning it will make life easier. At least with pistols. Unless she is left eye dominant. Do you know which of her eyes is the dominant eye? My wife is right handed but left eye dominant so I taught her to shoot handguns and long guns left handed. If she is left eye dominant and left handed and wants a centerfire... M&P |
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Manual transmission cars don't come with a lefty option, so everyone learns to drive it with their right hand. Same with a gun. If she learns to do it right handed from the beginning it will make life easier. At least with pistols. Unless she is left eye dominant. Do you know which of her eyes is the dominant eye? My wife is right handed but left eye dominant so I taught her to shoot handguns and long guns left handed. If she is left eye dominant and left handed and wants a centerfire... M&P You can still easily shoot handguns with your dominant hand if you're cross dominant. In your wife's case she could shoot right handed and just turn her head to the right, bringing her left eye into alignment with the sights. Larry Vickers does this, and the technique is mentioned in the 2nd edition of Tactical Pistol Shooting. |
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Manual transmission cars don't come with a lefty option, so everyone learns to drive it with their right hand. Same with a gun. If she learns to do it right handed from the beginning it will make life easier. At least with pistols. Unless she is left eye dominant. Do you know which of her eyes is the dominant eye? My wife is right handed but left eye dominant so I taught her to shoot handguns and long guns left handed. If she is left eye dominant and left handed and wants a centerfire... M&P You can still easily shoot handguns with your dominant hand if you're cross dominant. In your wife's case she could shoot right handed and just turn her head to the right, bringing her left eye into alignment with the sights. Larry Vickers does this, and the technique is mentioned in the 2nd edition of Tactical Pistol Shooting. I agree you can do it but it is much harder with a long gun. Since she was learning both from scratch, we went lefty from the git go. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Manual transmission cars don't come with a lefty option, so everyone learns to drive it with their right hand. Same with a gun. If she learns to do it right handed from the beginning it will make life easier. At least with pistols. Unless she is left eye dominant. Do you know which of her eyes is the dominant eye? My wife is right handed but left eye dominant so I taught her to shoot handguns and long guns left handed. If she is left eye dominant and left handed and wants a centerfire... M&P Just so we're clear, I'm left handed and left eye dominant. I shoot mostly with my left hand on right handed guns, but I can also shoot pistols right handed due to practice, as all it really involves is shifting the gun slightly. Rifles are a bit more complicated.  |
Ive only found ambi safeties to be advantageous to me as a lefty. I PREFER the placement of mag releases and slide stops on "right handed" guns, and cant quite figure out how you righties use them
That said, I have a thing for HKs. Good ergos(USP>M&P for me, P30  ) and I like the lever mag release a lot more than the button style. Plus, if its an HK with a safety, you can get one that is ambidextrous.
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Left handed friendly guns
HK P2000 HK P2000SK HK P30 HK 45 HK P7 PSP HK P7 M8 HK P7 M13 HK P7 M10 HK USP with ambi safety or LH safety Walther P99 Walther PPS Walther P88 ambi slide release Walther P5 ejects out the left side Smith & Wesson M&P Beretta 92FS Beretta PX4 FN FNP & FNX series CZ 75 1911 with ambi safety |
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why get used to something that is different from what most people are using, that doesnt seem like a good idea from a training standpoint
im a lefty, when i shoot handguns i manipulate them however is necessary, reloading means using my left hand middle finger, its quite easy and came naturally very quickly, manipulating the safety on some weapons just takes practice too, i use my left hand-thumb to manipulate the right-hand safety of my 1911, again no ambi necessary |