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Damn!!!
The next video you can see me "floating" my right arm away from the hot brass.
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Damn!!!
The next video you can see me "floating" my right arm away from the hot brass.
It happened to me the first time I shot a rt hand semi-automatic at an indoor range. I did not even realize it was a spent cartridge that popped over my glasses and was burning my forehead. It must have looked funny as hell, but, in the moment, there was nothing funny about it!
One , its a movie...and a bad one at times to boot...but I digress...If you have any doubt about handling a right hand rifle from the left shoulder watch Saving Private Ryan. The sniper is a southpaw and handles to '03A3 with aplomb.
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"In the case of a catastrophic failure, a left-handed shooter using a right-hand action is almost certain to sustain injuries, perhaps severe, to his or her face...
Ah, offset scope mount for cross dominance! Anyone tried it?
I'm like everyone else. At the end of the day, I just want to do my best!International rules (Olympics, Pan-American Games etc.) allow for offset sights. These are for iron sights but I think what I'm going to state would hold true for scopes.
You never see the top shooters using offsets sights, they always shoot off the eye dominate side, hand dominance is irrelevant to them. I think that says something. There was an Olympic shooter in the 60's that did use these mounts, but he had an eye injury late in his shooting career and did not want to (or maybe could not?) undo decades of position refinement he had given to his dominant side. By the way, he never did well after the accident so that may be telling as well.
What do you think?
I think we all are looking for clarity.I'm not sure I understand that statement from the American Rifleman article. I'm not trying to pick a fight here … I'm looking for clarity.
So, why would this "almost certainty" be so? Granted the gas relief port on most right hand bolt guns in on the right side placing the escaping gas as far away as possible from the "same-sided" shooters face. Even so, that port is still very far from a lefty's face as well. It's highly unlikely that gas flowing from that port would / could reach the lefty's shooter, even if they were really crawling up on the stock. That and the fact that most gas is actually directed into the magazine wells of bolt and semi guns makes me question the statement.
Given that, perhaps the author was meaning something different? I personally don't call a ruptured case event a catastrophic failure, and perhaps the author is in the same boat. To me a catastrophic failure is a rupture of the rifle not the cartridge case. This can happen either in the action area or the barrel. Bursting of the barrel is far more likely that a failed action but actions do fail. When this happens I don't see how action handiness / shoulder used makes any difference. You have metal coming loose in a very violent and unpredictable way … so I don't see in this instance how you could say one side or the other is more or less at risk when this happens. You basically have a grenade going off in your face … and who can predict how and where the shrapnel will fly?
On another topic in the article the author makes a big deal about push-feeds being able to feed in awkward, even upside down conditions and states he does not see the antipathy CRF folks have toward push feeds. Well, CRF is all about extraction, not so much about feeding, so his comments don't make much sense but that's another topic … so I digress.
So that's my thinking thus far … I'm happy to be illuminated to other ways of seeing the issue!
Cheers!
I am left-eye dominant and, by necessity, have to shoot left-handed. Bolt-action rifles are predominantly right-handed.
I'm left/left and shoot only right handed bolt guns. It works for me.
I am left-eye dominant and, by necessity, have to shoot left-handed. Bolt-action rifles are predominantly right-handed. Generally, models for lefties are more expensive and limited. Just wondering if some of you have shot right-handed bolt-action rifles on the left side and it has worked for you?