Left Handed Shotgun
 

I'm left handed and have been shooting right handed guns my whole life. Left handed models are hard to find and usually more expensive. I have decided to splurge and buy myself a nice left handed auto loading shotgun. I have looked online and found that Benelli, Charles Daley and Reminton make left handed auto's. I have heard great things about Benelli but the $1000+ price tag is a little high. The Daleys are cheaper but it doesn't appear you can get a rifled slug barrel for them. Any other southpaws out there have any advice as to which guns to look at? Or are there any manufacturers that I missed.

RE: Left Handed Shotgun
 

I have a Left handed Rem 1187. To the best of my knowledge there is not a rifled barrel made for this gun yet. When I deer hunt with a shotgun I use my right handed Rem 1187 12 ga.with a cantilevered rifled barrel. When it come to small game hunting my go to gun is a Rem 1100 20ga also a right handed gun. I've been hunting for almost 40 years with right handed guns. I thought it would be great to have a lefty shotgun. I couldn't have been more wrong. I see no significant advantage in it. Now it just sits in he safe and fills a slot.

The onlyother lefthanded gun I own is a ThompsonCenter 54 cal. Renegade. At the time I it was a great idea and today it still is. After shooting my brothers righty Renegade and getting a face full of crap that lefty gun is worth its weight in gold.

I'll probrably never buy another lefthanded gun after these two.

RE: Left Handed Shotgun
 

Yeah Jordan, I gotta agree with str8. I have many lefthanded bolt action rifles, but all my shotguns are right handed. Ive shot lefties before and it just doesnt make alot of difference to me. The thing I hear people say is it kicks the shell out in front of you?? It doesnt bother me, I have an 1100 and an 11-87 both right handed.

RE: Left Handed Shotgun
 

I shot RH shotguns for a long time without a problem. Got a LH Benelli SBE and it is fantastic.

RE: Left Handed Shotgun
 

I hear ya, Lefty26...

I am left eye dominant and have shot righty guns my whole life too. It never affected me one bit. Even in the Coast Guard, during bootcamp, I qualified on the M-16 by shooting lefty (believe me - they tried making me shoot righty-- Not good... I failed... Even with a eyepatch, I still failed... [&o] So, they ended up putting some weird shroud thing on the ejection port for safety, and I shot lefty and easily qualified).

I had a left hand Remington 870 at one point, but traded it back in and got a common, righty 870. See, I found out that with a lefty 870, I couldn't do anything with it. I couldn't get accessories for it, like you normally can. Besides that,even though the safety was correct (lefty) on it,it would goof me up, because I'm used to righty safetys, even though I'm lefty. Go figure....

Long story short, there ain't nothing wrong with shooting righty guns lefty. My old Marlin 30-30 is righty - nobody even MAKES a lefty lever gun anyway! ;)

Butch A.

RE: Left Handed Shotgun
 

While you're looking, check out the Browning BPS. Has a bottom eject so it's good for lefties or righties and not too terribly priced.