Semi Auto Shotgun

garv123

Looking for a few recommendations and a bit of info.

Anyone here a lefty and shoot a right handed semi auto shotgun? Any issues with gasses and powder in the eyes?

Cant source a semi auto within my budget in left hand.

So for a right handed one:

600 max budget
New or second hand
Chokes
30" barrel
Not bothered about a few marks if the gun is shooting well

wirehairmax

I'm left handed, have a right handed beretta urika s/a. Never any issue to me, I wear glasses shooting clays but not when out hunting. The only issue you may find awkward is the safety on some semi-autos may not suit lefties. Its not an issue on the urika as the safety can be reversed but I had a beretta xtrema and it couldnt be reversed so I sold it on again as I couldnt get used to it.
€700 would buy my urika if you're looking;)

garv123

wirehairmax wrote: »

I'm left handed, have a right handed beretta urika s/a. Never any issue to me, I wear glasses shooting clays but not when out hunting. The only issue you may find awkward is the safety on some semi-autos may not suit lefties. Its not an issue on the urika as the safety can be reversed but I had a beretta xtrema and it couldnt be reversed so I sold it on again as I couldnt get used to it.
€700 would buy my urika if you're looking;)

I had a mossberg pump action that was right handed, I got used to the safety on that fairly quick.

Hmm, Pm me some pics

Grizzly 45

Utter lefty myself.
Have been shooting pump and right-handed semi shotguns and rifles all my life with no bother. If you are getting powder or flashback, there is something, I personally think, with the gun itself, not you. Possibly a too short a stock.
But then again at 6'4" I have owned and shot a Chinese MAK,90 Ak where the stock on those are literally the size of a toy gun to most Europeans, without any powder flash, and your face is about 4ins from the ejection port!:D

So for 600 lids,there is a choice aplenty out there.:)

Grizzly 45

garv123 wrote: »

I had a mossberg pump action that was right handed, I got used to the safety on that fairly quick.

Top tang safties are a plus if you are a left hooker on any gun.

garv123

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Top tang safties are a plus if you are a left hooker on any gun.

Have it on my browning x-bolt .243, brilliant for us superior lefties :pac:

hedzball

Lefty myself. Have had shotguns since I was 14. I only recently got my first left handed one after about 15 years. Bought an M2 LH and its a great piece of gear. Would be for sale if you came up with a few more quid

Went back to an O/U and its more natural to me. I have shot a few R/H semis and never bothered me. In fact even a LH semi will throw gases in your eye . Plenty of decent semis in the UK for those bobs




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Conchurl

I was back in Irish shooting sports today and spotted this

Conchurl

Conchurl wrote: »

I was back in Irish shooting sports today and spotted this

Here is a pic of the tag on the gun

Wadi14

God u lefties have it handy Im a rightie who shoots leftie. lol

Gorgeousgeorge

Wadi14 wrote: »

God u lefties have it handy Im a rightie who shoots leftie. lol

Dominant eye problems or something else

J.R.

Conchurl wrote: »

Here is a pic of the tag on the gun

Akkar Altay are build in Turkey.

When they came out first there were many problems with firing lighter loads - wouldn't recycle.

They seem to have sorted that problem out and haven't heard of any issues now.

I had a friend who had one and never had any problems - but he only used it with heavy loads for fox & duck.

He used his O/U for pheasant / snipe / woodcock etc.

Wadi14

Gorgeousgeorge wrote: »

Dominant eye problems or something else

Yes my left eye is my dominant eye, right one is a lot weaker, started of shooting rifles with open sights and cant close the left eye on its own even if I had wanted to, so shoot everything of the left shoulder. Im right handed but when it comes to shooting long guns im left handed lol.

deerhunter1

garv123 wrote: »

Looking for a few recommendations and a bit of info.

Anyone here a lefty and shoot a right handed semi auto shotgun? Any issues with gasses and powder in the eyes?

Cant source a semi auto within my budget in left hand.

So for a right handed one:

600 max budget
New or second hand
Chokes
30" barrel
Not bothered about a few marks if the gun is shooting well

i am right handed and shoot left shoulder for the past 40+ years, always shot right handed semi autos,i have just purchased a new right handed beretta,never had a issue

J.R.

I've a left handed Benelli Montrefeltro .
I find it a great gun - handles like an O/U

I've shot s/s, O/U pump action and semi in right-hand version.

I now have 2 shotguns & rifle in left hand.

If I were to buy and was left handed then I'd buy a left handed gun.

You buy usually to keep for a long time so I'd buy a good make that suited me in left hand.

tac foley

I'm a true ambidex.

I'm equally mediocre with either eye.

Grizzly 45

Id give my right hand to be ambidex.:P