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paddyofurniture
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With today's CNC machines left handed Enfield's would be possible.
All you would need is a action and the other bits would fit. |
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Stanforth
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All British soldiers were right handed. They may not have been when they joined but they were when they finished their training.
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Pedro
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True, all old soldiers were taught to shoot right handed. As for me, I'm definitely left handed. If you look at the sniper in "Saving Private Ryan" then that's how I work the bolt on a rifle. Definitely slower, but there's no southpaw Lee Enfields that I know of. Incidentally I have a couple of modern rifles and I haven't bothered to buy them in left handed form either. But (thankfully) quickness of cycling rounds doesn't prove so crucial with sporting firearms.
Continuing on that theme, I also don't buy left handed shotguns. That works well for me. Even a semi-auto. I thought that the ejected she!! would have hit me or at least put me off as it flies by, but it goes past that quickly I don't notice it. The advantage is that I'm able to borrow a gun and use it competently in right handed configuration and I don't have to pay the premium all manufacturers put on left handed firearms, at least they do in the UK. I'm a bit stuck if a rifle has a thumbhole stock (sorry, butt-stock in American).
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Moondog55
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We were taught how to shoot RH and the rifles were all RH but in the field lefties were encouraged to carry left and if no lefties in a platoon every third rifle had to be pointing in the other direction
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