If all the lefties will just turn the gun around, it becomes laft hand controlled.
Problem solved!
We love you lefties.
Problem solved!
We love you lefties.
No one else wants to say it so I will.
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I was left-handed as a child. But some things I had to learn right-handed. Pistol could always be left-handed. But at the age of 12, my scoutmaster was teaching us how to shoot a 12 ga semi-auto. I was putting it up to my left shoulder and he said to put it up to my right shoulder. As the shell ejected, I understood and always shot long guns right-handed after that.
In October of 1974, when I was 10, I picked up my step-grandfather's Sears Silvertone guitar that only had 3 strings on it. We were staying at their house in Simi Valley, Ca prior to moving to Texas, where I have been ever since. I started picking strings and using the frets. Later, I would realize the pattern I was picking was the arpeggio to "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
So, about a week later, we move to Texas. My mother gave me a student guitar she had from my father (he had been a music major at the University of South Dakota before transferring to UCLA.) All she could afford was some new nylon strings and Mel Bay's Book of Chords. It was for right-handed players. So, I learned and taught myself guitar right-handed, which is funny, because it felt like a left-handed activity to me. The left hand does more and harder work than the right hand does.
And that is the same reason I bat and swing a golf club right-handed. I throw a bowling ball left-handed.
Fast forward to winter of 2023 when I had to get a new scrip for my glasses and the doc surmised that I have the beginnings of a cataract in my left eye.
I said, "That's funny. I drive a Toyota."
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Im right handed but grew up with a couple lefties, one being @LuckyLuke80
In ping pong a lefty teamed with a righty makes the best team!
In school we would go weeks undefeated. Even then we usually didnt lose, the losers would finally get the teacher to make us step out so others could play.
In ping pong a lefty teamed with a righty makes the best team!
In school we would go weeks undefeated. Even then we usually didnt lose, the losers would finally get the teacher to make us step out so others could play.
This, I hate them and dont understand why they have to be put on everything anymore.
Also for anyone who wants to say what if your right hand/arm is hurt or whatever....Bullshit.
You mean ground away till they're almost not there? Yeah, that's what I do too. Even then they bug me.
For fixing stupid designs.
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I am mostly ambidextrous, but I write, throw, and I shoot a bow left handed. It absolutely sucks in a right handed world. Seems like no one can shoot my bows, and I can't shoot any of my buddy's bows, so I never get to try anything out before I buy. That really sucks.
I am very glad that I shoot right handed. I feel sorry for all the left handed gun shooters enough to deal with quite a bit to help assuage the fuckery they have to deal with all the time...
I am very glad that I shoot right handed. I feel sorry for all the left handed gun shooters enough to deal with quite a bit to help assuage the fuckery they have to deal with all the time...
Glad I'm not the only one that's F'd up. Was a righty-righty for most of my life, then had a right eye issue and became left eye dominate. My scoped rifles are now shot left handed (had to go to a left-hand bow also), and handguns are still shot right handed with the ol' head twist thing. Still can shoot both with either, just better vision with my left eye. Sucks getting old! Mac
As a leftie please let me say welcome to my world and suck it!
But you’re the one complaining. Us lefties make it work. I run right hand carbines as fast as the next guy as long as the next guy isn’t named Jerry miculik
Hahahaha! Tried it and now I’m testing out an Israeli bandage
I found the same with guitar. Played bass for a while and found that my left hand has better dexterity than my right. I do sports activities left hand. I write right handed. I shoot predominantly left handed, but I actually shoot a pistol more accurately with my right hand. I have a cheat code for that though-still use my left eye. Basically I’m what’s actually called mixed handed. I’ve heard it’s a sign of mental retardation
Basically… look honest truth is 99% of us will never thank God need our carry pistols…. The small fraction of the small amount of people that actually daily carry that would need it, and be wounded in their dominate arm and need ambi controls is sooooooo ridiculously small. BUT it drives up the cost for everyone, gives a lazy BS look what we did to “improve” last years model crap and snags and causes more problems for the majority of people. It’s more a marketing thing than a need by far IMO.
I’d much rather see companies invest that money and time into the logistics and manufacturing of the product.
“A majority of people”…people go out looking specifically for ambi firearm controls, you just don’t do that’s the “majority”. You ruined your own argument, good job. You should stop carrying if it’s not really needed, no reason to be prepared or train for a very rare occurrence.
I’ll let you in on a little secret you keep saying “I” this “I” that we don’t care what you want, so do you really think manufacturers who get asked to make ambi firearms care what you think? No, some companies exist partially from their manufacturing of ambi controls.
Now tell me about how amazing the weaver stance is, and how .22lr “bounces around the skull”.
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Alright cocksucker, as a lefty i want ambi controls! Now the thing for you and what your dumbass fails to realize is you don’t always have to get a rifle and/or pistol with ambi controls! Wow what a fucking concept.
So quit your bitching and get back into the kitchen, make me a sandwich and get me a beer!
I don't know about the .22 LR but I do know that 9 mm will blow a lung right out of the body.
Anyway, as to why a company would make ambi controls, I assume it is for money and to appeal to the widest market.
How about this-just shoot left handed. I shoot a bolt action right handed. I’ve gone around this mulberry bush every which way and multiple times. Eventually the plan is to buy a left hand rifle, but in the meantime I keep shooting left hand and running the bolt with my right hand. Growing up I had to do it that way to run my dad’s old ruger m77. Then I owned a LH 270 for a few years. As far as pistols, I shoot a Glock gen 5 and the mag release stayed as a right hand setup. It’s just about the training. Same for carbine. I have developed the skill set to run a right hand carbine left handed and I do it fairly well if I do say so myself.
Honestly, I decided using my dominant hand on the guiding side of the rifle is more beneficial to me to start with.
I was taught the “Saving Private Ryan way” with using a righty bolt gun. But when dad got me a lefty rem 700…oh man game changer!
That's a full size EGW slimmed down to my liking on a Combat Commander by Jim Milks. My hand is low in the pic to show the difference. I always ride the TS and have as high a grip as possible. Almost all of my 1911s are customs with varying degrees of undercut trigger guards. It hits my first knuckle on my trigger finger, but only in the palm meat. Doesn't bother me. Full size or even factory slim ambis bug me.
I've shot with and know a former World class IPSC shooter turned pistol smith that puts ambi safeties on his guns, carry and competion. His long, boney trigger finger creates a gap that avoids contact with the safety. Mine, however, lays against the frame and it's an issue.
If it works for you and you feel a need for a weakhand safety, go for it.
I have seen a few people do that. Shoot the rifle left-handed and operate the bolt with the right hand. They do well enough.
In USPSA there are lots of stages, especially classifier stages where you hve to shoot weak/support hand. Part of why I got the 1911 with safeties on both sides.
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To OP and others that feel like ambi controls have no place on a gun.
Go to your local gunstore. Go to the slim/micro compact guns. A few models to try, fn503, s&w shield, Springfield hellcat, g43 and the like. Single stack guns.
Pick it up in your left hand. With your left hand in a normal grip, touch the slide release.
Release the magazine with your left hand.
Take out the magazine. Lock the slide back and show clear.
If you were left handed, would you buy any of them ever? What if all guns felt that way to you? How would you feel if roles were reversed and there were no guns for right handed people? That is what you are advocating for the rest of us.
To OP and others that feel like ambi controls have no place on a gun.
Go to your local gunstore. Go to the slim/micro compact guns. A few models to try, fn503, s&w shield, Springfield hellcat, g43 and the like. Single stack guns.
Pick it up in your left hand. With your left hand in a normal grip, touch the slide release.
Release the magazine with your left hand.
Take out the magazine. Lock the slide back and show clear.
If you were left handed, would you buy any of them ever? What if all guns felt that way to you? How would you feel if roles were reversed and there were no guns for right handed people? That is what you are advocating for the rest of us.
Wow. First world problems.
You don't like ambi shit, don't buy guns with ambi shit.
Pretty simple.
You don't like ambi shit, don't buy guns with ambi shit.
Pretty simple.
Just like a “progressive…”
“Hey, there’s someone over there quietly minding their own business, enjoying their life in a way that has no bearing on me. I’m’a hafta put a stop to that nonsense straight away.”
Now that I think about it, that’s in the “conservative” playbook too.
Some ambi troofs yo... bought a DW Kodiak a couple years back. Wide ambi safeties don't work for me, big hands and a high grip. If I just narrow it, it'll look like crap since it's got some sort of treatment on it. Can't touch it up. Gotta swap it out. It's not blued, so that won't match. End up doing a whole two tone stainless thing to it, safety, slide lock, trigger, grip safety. Not the end of the world, keeps resale value up, but it did add expense and effort into the whole thing. Also kind of a bummer since it's just an off the shelf EGW ambi safety, but no easy way to match the colors.
Two days ago I'm looking at a 2011 I'm tempted by. But I realize it's the same deal. Three ways to fix it, ugly, ugly and expenisive.
Two days ago I'm looking at a 2011 I'm tempted by. But I realize it's the same deal. Three ways to fix it, ugly, ugly and expenisive.
Lefties don’t live as long.
Gorillas are left handed in the same proportion that humans are right handed.
There you go.
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Gorillas are left handed in the same proportion that humans are right handed.
There you go.
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a fact, its too obvious some of us descended from apes... I know this cause I watch live pd,
This guys never thrown a firearm into a barrel or onto a table and it shows
I think we’re going to change the pride flag to include LH people.
LGBTQ+LH
Small % people pushing their beliefs on us for acceptance. Fuck, throw the soulless Gingers in there too.
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