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Semi Auto Shotgun

  • 11-02-2019 12:13pm
    #1
    garv123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    wirehairmax
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭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;)


  • #3
    garv123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭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


  • #4
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭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.:)

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #5
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭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.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #6
    garv123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭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:


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  • #7
    hedzball
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭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 :D

    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




    'hdz


  • #8
    Conchurl
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Conchurl


    I was back in Irish shooting sports today and spotted this


  • #9
    Conchurl
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Conchurl


    Conchurl wrote: »
    I was back in Irish shooting sports today and spotted this

    Here is a pic of the tag on the gun


  • #10
    Wadi14
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Wadi14


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


  • #11
    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    Wadi14 wrote: »
    God u lefties have it handy Im a rightie who shoots leftie. lol

    Dominant eye problems or something else


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  • #12
    J.R.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Wadi14
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    deerhunter1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭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


  • #15
    J.R.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    I'm a true ambidex.

    I'm equally mediocre with either eye.


  • #17
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    Id give my right hand to be ambidex.:P

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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