Southpaw percussion, Invest Arms and no other?

[user 54092]

Is Investarms the only game in town for a left handed cap lock? Yes, I have had a few of the right hand variety, but since having 4 surgeries on my right eye I'd like to keep the ignition source at a distance. My shooting eye is the only one without an oily sheen type o' sight. I was fortunate enough to have the retina in the right eye detach and not my shooting eye, so I'm a little gun shy at the thought of small explosions near my left eye.
I've been eyeballing the Investarms listed on Muzzle-loader.com and can't seem to find any other source.

 

[jdw276]

Thompson center used to make em. CVA made em. Deer creek in waldon has all the stock and was selling em at friendship new for $290. Lefty flinter. I own one. Might ask em if they got one in percussion.

And now the hate posts of CVA blah will start up. You want to shoot in two weeks, here ya go unless you want to wait years for some. And some makers will not make a lefty because they are not period correct. They look down on left handed shooters as only folks eligible to have their left hand tied behind their back to make em a righty.

 

[smokepolehall]

I don't think you will find many LH ML's in production. Another option in an Under-Hammer kit. I have been building one of them.

 

[user 54092]

I have a lefty flint, won't go back now. Witches use the sinister hand you know.

 

[Rancocas]

Mark Baker, noted author and authority on living history (re-enacting) told me himself, that although left-handed muzzeloaders were certainly historically uncommon, they did indeed exist.

Yes, left-handed guns, muzzleloaders and otherwise, are scarce; but they are out there. I currently have five left-handed muzzleloaders. Two of my left-handed rifles, a percussion and a flintlock, I made myself, not from any kit, but from parts that I collected. One other left-handed percussion rifle of mine was made for me by a friend. My fourth lefty rifle is a flintlock that I stumbled upon at a gun show and after some haggling, I bought it. My fifth lefty, another flintlock, is a .62 fowler that I bought "in the white" from Caywood Gun Makers and finished it myself.

So, there definitely are left-handed muzzleloaders out there. You just have to keep looking.

 

[LeonardC]

My TC Renegade .54 is LH. I see LHers for sale now and then.

 

[treetophunter]

I believe that Jededia Trading Post offers 4 or 5 left handed flintlock rifle kits. One is the Gemmler Hawken and there are 3 or 4 longrifles.

 

[treetophunter]

I was hoping that someone could tell me how difficult these rifles are to build. My brother and his son want a kit in LH.