Leftie Wheelie???

JLaw · Post by **JLaw** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:21 pm

I just got news from my Uncle Skeezix that Charter Arms is introducing a new revolver for lefties...would this be the first true leftie revolver?

JLaw

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:56 pm

Diode needs one for Christmas next yr.
Ask Santa.

Cosmo 9 · Post by **Cosmo 9** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:37 am

I better not let my son see this. He's still nagging the heck out of me for the Stag Arms AR for lefties.

MTICop · Post by **MTICop** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:42 am

I may have to start saving my pennies for this one. I'm not big on revolvers...not having one for lefties is probably why.

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:32 am

More of my kinsmen were & are lefties than right.
Daughter even married a lefty.
Wonder how many are on the board.
I only know 2.

Tote 9 · Post by **Tote 9** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:55 am

MTICop wrote:I may have to start saving my pennies for this one. I'm not big on revolvers...not having one for lefties is probably why.

You may have to start saving quarters, a penny won't even buy a piece
of gum anymore.

Good to hear from you on the forum. Like that signature too.

nuparadigm · Post by **nuparadigm** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:35 am

I'm, now, a left-handed shooter. Used to be right-handed and wounds necessitated the change.

It's great that there is another (besides the original design of Samuel Colt's SAA) left-handed revolver on the market! That being said, I made the transition to semi-autos years ago and don't plan on going back to the other side. Besides, on a retiree's pension, I can't afford new toys.

pfgrone · Post by **pfgrone** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:36 pm

When asked if I'm left handed or right handed, I want to know by what criteria. Some things I do left handed (writing, eating, shooting a rifle) and other things right handed (throw & hit a baseball, hold a golf club, handle a basketball, etc.). So I did shoot handguns right handed but easily switched to left handed after getting painful arthritis in my right thumb.

I'm afraid I'm so used to reloading my right handed 38 snub nose that it would be extremely awkard to switch to a lefty wheel gun. But I'm glad that it's being offered.
Paul G.

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:36 pm

pfgrone wrote:When asked if I'm left handed or right handed, I want to know by what criteria. Some things I do left handed (writing, eating, shooting a rifle) and other things right handed (throw & hit a baseball, hold a golf club, handle a basketball, etc.). So I did shoot handguns right handed but easily switched to left handed after getting painful arthritis in my right thumb.

You sound like my dad. I'm 100% right-handed; Grandad was completely ambidextrous (and could throw a baseball equally well with either hand); Dad was just... confused.

He could shoot a rifle either way, but could only shoot a pistol right handed. He threw a baseball right handed, but batted lefty. Shot a bow right handed, but golfed lefty.

After having his right arm shattered and in a cast for most of 8th grade, his penmanship with his left hand was remarkably good, too.

Mike1951 · Post by **Mike1951** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:40 pm

KBCraig wrote:After having his right arm shattered and in a cast for most of 8th grade, his penmanship with his left hand was remarkably good, too.

Years ago, I worked with a Navy veteran of WWII.

He was injured in the Pacific and was laid up for months.

As therapy and to relieve boredom, he practiced writing with his 'off' hand.

He got so good that thirty years later, I was amazed as he could write the same thing with both hands at the same time. But what he wrote with the left hand would be an almost perfect mirror image of what he wrote with the wrote. You see, he was writing the text backwards with the left hand.

Post by **Crossfire** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:40 pm

pfgrone wrote:When asked if I'm left handed or right handed, I want to know by what criteria.

I think most lefties are the same way. We have to compensate in so many ways that most of us become ambidextrous, at least to a certain extent.

I write with my left hand. (Much to the irritation of my 4th grade teacher who tried to make me switch.) I never had left handed scissors as a kid, so I can only use scissors to cut with my right hand. But, if I cut something with a knife, I use the left. I played softball as a kid, and never had a left handed glove. So, I catch and throw like a right hander, but bat left handed.

I started shooting lefthanded, but am right eye dominant. I got tired of the brass smacking me in the forehead, so I decided to be a right handed shooter. I CAN shoot left handed (even more so, after the car door right hand trigger finger incident of last month) but I don't find it natural.

So, am I lefthanded? Maybe. Sorta. Sometimes. When it's convenient.

pfgrone · Post by **pfgrone** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:52 pm

[quote=]llwatson I got tired of the brass smacking me in the forehead[/quote]

Know what youy mean. In the 60's I was in the Air Force and we qualified with an M1 Carbine (a real fun gun) but the ejecting casing would clip my right forehead bacause I was shooting left handed.
Paul