Left Handed Actions

[DocRDS]

Are Left Handed actions just really rare or do I need to go on backorder. I know lots of companies make them, what I don't see is them in stock most places. I'm "transitioning" from right to left and this is all new--I'm used to just ordering whatever.

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[4g64loser]

Are Left Handed actions just really rare or do I need to go on backorder. I know lots of companies make them, what I don't see is them in stock most places. I'm "transitioning" from right to left and this is all new--I'm used to just ordering whatever.

Anyone PMing me with a action for sale will be reported as a scammer. This is NOT a WTB add.

I got nothing to sell you (I'm righty) but I can suggest that you talk to James Kessler at Northland. He keeps right and left origin and tl3 on the shelf in the popular configurations. One of my lefty friends had his origin three days after ordering last year.

I have no affiliation with the biz other than as a paying customer but I've been happy buying from him for the better part of a decade.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

Are Left Handed actions just really rare or do I need to go on backorder. I know lots of companies make them, what I don't see is them in stock most places. I'm "transitioning" from right to left and this is all new--I'm used to just ordering whatever.

Anyone PMing me with a action for sale will be reported as a scammer. This is NOT a WTB add.

I've had to order some and some not. Definitely not as easy to get as RH but we'll worth it when you do. There's usually some lefties for sale here too which is how I've bought several.

 

[corsairpilot62]

Good luck! This is why i’m a huge fan of Remington 700 cause you can find them lefty. Terminus is good. Stiller offers some lefty stuff.

 

[LuvDog]

It seems they come in batches. So if you see them back in stock then grab one while they are available.

otherwise, they show up here in the Px.

 

[Surdez1994]

Im also a right to left convert. I ordered a new defiance recently and had it back with full nitride in half of their stated wait time!!! It also headspaced and timed up perfectly to my 6.5 max and 7 max barrel! Ordered july 1st and shipped August 26th

 

[Supersubes]

Lone peak had them in stock a short time ago. They're pretty good with their time estimates when stuff will go into production as well.

 

[StephenShivers]

My son is left eye dominant, so he shoots lefty. I am having a lefty .308 built for his college graduation. I'm using the Strasser left hand straight pull in their Rem 700 footprint action. They are as smooth as I've used, and I'm a Sauer model 90 bolt action guy, which are about as smooth a bolt action you can get.

 

[wvfarrier]

Tikka lefties are usually fairly easy to find

 

[702lineman]

Im a lefty and have actually been thinking of thinning the heard. Impact and rem 700.

Lefty stuff is definitely harder to find, and a little harder to sell when you want to, but I shot rh rifles for a while in the beginning and making the switch is best move you can make if your lh or left eye dominate

 

[sneakypayload]

Im a lefty. It took me 3 years to find an AT-LE, and I begged a buddy to sell it and he has first right of refusal if I ever sell it back. I have a NOW AXSA left hand that I got lucky and found here.

My left handed Impact actions were found on the hide, good deals a shade under retail. I was able to talk to Tate at impact precision and get another left hand action.

If you call the manufacturers they can either put you on a waitlist, or might even have a few you can buy, you'll just pay full price. MPA usually can get you a rifle left handed in a common caliber in a couple months.

 

[748rpilot]

My son is left eye dominant, so he shoots lefty. I am having a lefty .308 built for his college graduation. I'm using the Strasser left hand straight pull in their Rem 700 footprint action. They are as smooth as I've used, and I'm a Sauer model 90 bolt action guy, which are about as smooth a bolt action you can get.

I want a lefty Strasser RS700 action in an OD Green Cadex field tactical chassis, with an OD Green ZCO

 

[Familydude]

Lefty here. I’ve been fairly lucky and have found them without too much wait (except AI’s). I think that has more to do with luck and timing than anything else. I know guys that have waited several months for a lefty action, depending on the brand.

 

[widefat77]

ARC CDG seem to always be available.

 

[StrayDog]

Impacts seem to be available frequently, get on the notify-me lists on Altus, Impacts, Bugholes, etc. best actions I've used to date... 737 and NBK

 

[wvfarrier]

Lefty AI's are made of unobtainium

 

[Shifty6BR]

Also lefty....on the contrary, lefty options are much greater now than they were in the past.

Action options are much more than before, back in the day you had either a 700 action or a Surgeon, at least these were my two real options well over a decade back, I recall Defiance (pre sale) was next to really offer a lefty option. Then a few years or two after is when I started to really see lefty options fill the market and most of all chassis, stocks and triggers became readily available along with rimfire options.

I now have 3 centerfire actions as well as 3 rimfire actions all lefty, have come a ways from the old days.

They can be found readily available...I have my eye on a tl3 that a site sponsor here has several in stock ready to ship.

Tho it may semi diffcult, the market is.much, much better than it ever was.

 

[Nik H]

They are so much more available than they were 10-15 years ago.

There are a number of excellent manufacturers that offer LH actions and keep them on the shelf. More importantly, they also offer needed accessories like bolts so you can change calibers. Terminus always has them in stock.

I use AI but don’t follow me unless you are a patient man. I have two LH AI rifles, an AT and an AXMC. It took 4 years of patient waiting and the help of another member here to get the last and final LH bolt for the AXMC before I could fully utilize its capabilities. Spare parts are unobtainable. I would love to get a spare firing pin/shroud assembly for it but know that will never happen. I will probably buy an AXSR at some point but only because I already purchased all of the bolt bodies and a spare firing pin/shroud assembly. You have to buy the extras when you can or go without.

If I were starting again, I would strongly consider the Terminus as a starting point.