Travis: You will appreciate having that lock and percussion cap, or flashpan on the Other side of the barrel and stock from your face and eyes. I recommend using a LH gun.
Take much of what RH shooters with a big grain of salt: If what they want you to believe about a LH person shooting a RH gun were true, they would be running out to take advantage of those " bargains " on LH guns.
As to LH shooters who wax eloquent about shooting RH guns all their lives without problems, they are entitled to their opinions. However, we LHers are acclimated to living in a total RH world, where we have to adapt to all the RH things in modern society, from doorlocks, to phones, to keyboards. In fact, most of us cannot use LH tools as easily as we have learned to use RH tools, and gear. The point is, that ALL LH people have to learn to be ambidextrous, and some folks take great pride in having conquered those skills. Its shows in their comments about LH/RH guns. Most of them have never even held a LH gun, in my experience, much less shot one extensively enough to understand the advantages.
When I got into guns in the late 50s, the only LH guns were custom made models. No LH bolt action guns existed, and NO commercially made LH MLERS were being sold. LH shooters bought the H&A underhammer rifles, or put up with RH guns. By the mid 60s, there were two companies making LH bolt action rifles, Weatherby, and Savage. It was not until the late 80s that companies like Winchester, Remington, and Ruger began offering a few models in LH bolt Action rifles. LH MLers became available also in the 1980s, from commercial gunmakers.
So, find someone with a LH gun like you may be interested in shooting, and ask him to let you shoot it for a match or two, to get use to the feel. I think you will like the LH rifle bettern than the RH rifles we have all had to " make do with".
One of the reasons I got into shooting, and stopped my interest in Archery was that in the late 50s, those bows with training wheels came on the scene, and immediately, all stick and recurve bows disappeared from sporting goods store shelves. And, only RH compound bows were available. When I asked the clerk at my local store where the LH bows were, he acted like I wanted a guided tour of a cancer ward!
I was insulted. I had been discriminated against all my childhood because I am an identical Twin, and folks didn't want to bother learning how to tell us apart. I was simply not going to spend hard earned money in an industry that didn't even know I existed! Altho I had spent hours every day learning to shoot my bow and arrows,from age 6 to age 12, I left archery then, and have not taken it up seriously since. A friend gave me a LHed bow with wheels to use to hunt carp with him, because he was embarrassed that I could kill the fish just as easily with my old 25 lb pull fiberglass bow made by Fred Bear's company, using wood target arrows. He insisted that I use a fiberglass arrow, with a barbed point, and a trailing line that ran off a spool attached to the riser of the bow. We did kill some fish together, and I still consider it one of the cheapest "thrills" you can experience with your clothes on.
I turned to guns because there were lever action, and slide action rifles, and some LH bolt guns, if NO Semi-auto LH guns. And there were single shot, break open rifles that didn't discriminate against anyone. Today, there are LH semi-auto pistols and rifles in some calibers, as well as LH pumps, and Bolt action rifles. And, thanks to better thought by commercial gunmakers, we have a variety of LH BP guns available, although not in any small calibers.
My first rifle was a RH percussion. I shot it well, after a fashion. But, it did not compare to my new LH percussion action rifle that I had made, and later converted to flint. Yeah, I have a DB shotgun in percussion, and I shoot it. But, I would be more reluctant to shoot a DB flinter, without a better fence behind the flashpan than I have now on my percussion gun. For safety, You do want a good deflector behind the pan or nipple, to deflect debris from your face, and eyes. I picked shards of percussion cap out of my cheek on more than one occasion when I shot that RH rifle. That never happened with My LH percussion rifle.