How do you fare shooting opposite handed

Getting cabin fever and can't wait to get to the range. Been thinking of trying my Kentucky Flinter "Left handed". I am a right handed shooter and thought it might be fun to try. How many shooters out there have tried and maybe even accomplished good shooting opposite handed?
Flintlocklar
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I can't even feed myself left handed, much less shoot a gun. :grin:

i'm a lefty. Can't even shave with my right hand.

I'm right handed. I cannot shoot rt handed and shoot gun and bow left handed very ell (left eyed). I cannot begin to do anything else left handed!

Pistol ok but rifle not so much.

Being right handed and left eyed I have pretty good results shooting either side. Starting out I learned and shoot left handed. When I went into the Army the M16 didn't have that little bump to keep the brass from coming straight back into your collar. That's the first time I shot right handed. Even quantified as expert that way. Don't under estimate what you can do.

Being right handed and left eyed I have pretty good results shooting either side. Starting out I learned and shoot left handed. When I went into the Army the M16 didn't have that little bump to keep the brass from coming straight back into your collar. That's the first time I shot right handed. Even quantified as expert that way. Don't under estimate what you can do.

Being right handed and left eyed I have pretty good results shooting either side. Starting out I learned and shoot left handed. When I went into the Army the M16 didn't have that little bump to keep the brass from coming straight back into your collar. That's the first time I shot right handed. Even quantified as expert that way. Don't under estimate what you can do.

With a handgun right or left hand about the same for me.
If I shoot with my left hand I use my left eye, right hand and right eye.

Don’t shoot a long gun other than right handed unless I am helping a lefty.
Then not too much trouble just a little awkward.




William Alexander

Larry (Omaha) said:

How many shooters out there have tried and maybe even accomplished good shooting opposite handed?

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I don't have too much trouble at all cross shooting. It's one of the tricks they try on ya at many local Rendezvous shoots.
I'll admit it's not real comfortable,, but accuracy is pretty much spot on.

I am in the "can't feed myself left handed" category but was forced to shoot that way this year or risk spooking this buck. Luckily the range was short.

:thumbsup: Good buck

When I walked out of an auction with a TC Hawken back in the late 70's, I knew I was ready to participate in Pennsylvania's newly offered "Flintlocks Only Season". That cockiness lasted only until I began shooting this rifle left-handed, and experiencing the "flash-in-your-face" a mere few inches away. It was a humbling experience! :shocked2:

Not until I traded up to a used, left-handed, semi-custom rifle from Brad Emig at Cabin Creek, did I begin to hit what I was aiming at with a flintlock. Since that early experience with "wrong-handed" flintlocks 45+ years ago, I have somehow managed to accumulate a half dozen lefty flintlocks, and as long as my eyes hold out, I'll enjoy shooting them all! :thumbsup:

As in most things, we have different abilities. Some of us are more ambidextrous and can adjust more easily to shooting on the off side. Others of us are have more dominance to one side and it would be harder to do.

I have a brother in law who has had several different eye issues over a number of years. He is right handed, but learned to shoot left handed due to eye issues. At some point with surgery the eye issue was corrected and he went to shooting right handed. As he has aged, some eye issues have returned and he is back to shooting left handed. Seems to do quite well either way.

My point of impact moves right about 4 inches and down abut 3" when shooting a hand gun left handed.
I don't remember where it moves if at all with a rifle. Been a few years since we had one of those switch hand matches with a long gun.

FWIW as a lefty, I shot many a RH’d flintlocks for years, burning up to 8#s of powdah in a season. Have NEVER even ONCE seen a pan flash, from a RH or LH’d arm for that matter ... as all my attention (as should be yours ... ) is on the front sight!

As far as shooting from the ”˜other’ side, one station on our woodswalk has this as the requirement. Most of us hit 1-minute of gong out to 40-yards or so ... no issues, if you practice!

Handgun target charts indicate that the change in point of impact probably comes from griping the handgun too tight if you are shooting low and to the right with the left hand. For a righty it would be low and to the left.

I'm fully ambidextrous and have no difficulty in shooting/throwing/writing/reading with either eye or hand. I have no master eye.

I used to spend a deal of time with disabled people, teaching them to shoot a bow or a gun. Being an ambi seems to help them visualise the positions and actions needed to achieve either type of body management.

I have left and right Olympic-style air rifles and pistols, and compete at county level with either, but all my BP firearms, being either the real thing [Sniders] or replications of the real thing[Enfield-style] are right-handed. I have no flintlocks.

And yes, I know and appreciate just how lucky I am. especially when I was in the Army. The chance of losing a limb or an eye and having to subsequently cope was not such a huge problem to me, if it was going to happen.

Being an ambi got me a few shooting bargains over the years, too, including my $75 BSA Martini International MkII with a complete set of Al Freeland micrometer diopter sights...with apologies for mentioning it.

tac
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I've never tried it, but over the years I've had enough situations with deer coming in on the "wrong" side and not wandering over to the "right" side, and I couldn't move, that I think it would be good to do the practice and find out if one can make it work and at what range. If so, it would provide some additional hunting shot opportunities.

I am sooooooooooo left handed and left eye dominant. Only times I ever shouldered a muzzle loader right handed was for a firing demonstration during my short lived 1812 soldier re-enacting days. That became one of the many reasons I gave up military re-enacting altogether.