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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
IKsteve, why do you say that?
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take a standard bolt action rifle...aim it left handed and operate the bolt...ever heard the expression about a monkey performing an unnatural act on a football? there is a reason that the trigger hand operates the bolt...just try it...
secondly, pull the bolt all the way to the rear, as if you were extracting a round...you are not keeping a stock weld because, unless you have a really long length of pull, getting the bolt to the rear is going to cause you to move your face...
as Peregrino says, operating a weapon is a function of training...machine guns have bolts designed to be operated with the right hand...automatic and semi-automatic rifles have bolts designed to be operated with the right hand...it is natural for a right handed firer, a trained right handed firer, to operate the bolt with the right hand...the weapons were designed that way...
lefties have to adapt to the weapons in the inventory...some, like Perigrino, adapt to firing right handed...some like myself, have such a dominant left eye that firing right handed is problematic, especially for any instinctive firing...hell, no matter which hand i hold the gun with, if i am shooting through open sights with both eyes open, the left eye is the one that's going to dominate, so i might as well use the corresponding hand...(some folks are cross-dominant...) i adapted over my career to use a weapon effectively and subsequent modifications to the M16 made the weapon easier for me to use...
since the weapons are designed for right handed firers, it is counter-intuitive (to me) for someone who is right handed to try to adapt a left handed weapon for some half-baked idea that it allows a shooter to keep a stock weld...not the case...
of course what would i know...? i'm just a graduate of the weapons (and engineer) course...
