Keeping my fingers crossed that Savage listens to us southpaws and pumps out these in lefthand!!! any rumors out there????
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Keeping my fingers crossed that Savage listens to us southpaws and pumps out these in lefthand!!! any rumors out there????
As much as I would love them to do this, I'm not holding my breath.
I know it is a pipe dream,but i sent Savage a request/plea to produce us "LEFTIES" a .338 Lapua!!!!
I'd be happy with a MkII heavy barrel in left hand.
If you want a Lapua that bad get a right hand one. I am a lefty but have shot right hand rifles and shotguns all my life. I have gotten top shooter at a few of the shooting schools i attended shooting right hand rifles up to 1200 yds. The only difference i find is follow up shot is not as fast as with left hand rifle. If you hit him right the first time no second shot is needed. dont let this be the reason you do not have your dream rifle. you owe it to yourself to be out there shooting anything that crossed your path you want dead. just saying
Actually from bench or bipod, I find a right handed rifle works better for me. My hunting rifles are left handed. I'd like a bolt action .22 for position shooting practice and right handed won't cut it for that.
You could buy the right hand action and send it to SSS and have them convert the action to left hand.
I could do a lot of things with unlimited funds. It would be much easier to buy a left-handed action and swap to a heavy barrel or call Savage's custom shop and have the rifle built on a correct action. The point is an off-the-shelf, affordable rifle that shoots well. If I wanted to go the custom route in this case it probably wouldn't be a Savage. I would think that a nicely priced, accurate .22LR would be the easiest product out there to move so it surprises me how limited the left-hand options are in the Savage rimfire line.Quote:
Originally Posted by psharon97
Thanks guys: the more i think of it,i think i will just pick up the rifle and use it , planning on using it for a long range shooter and do not plan on needing a fast folllow up shot [i hope].
Now i must have too much time on my hands,really thinking of getting my gunsmith to re-chamber it to the Ackley imp. version!! and eventually a 30" barrel
If I am not mistaken, Savage will build any RH model rimfire, in LH, but you pay list price for them. I do not consider that out of line, if that's accurate. Worth a call. Maybe a Mark II GL with a heavy barrel?Quote:
Originally Posted by helotaxi
Savage builds a heavy barrel .22LR in left-handed form, The BTVLS is stainless steel and has a heavy barrel and a laminated thumbhole stock in left-hand form. So, basically Savage makes the bottom (MK II GL) and top (Mk II BTVLS) of their rimfire line in left-hand versions. It's the middle of the lineup that lacks them.Quote:
Originally Posted by handirifle
Yea, that was why I suggested a GL in heavy barrel.
Which would be a GLV, which I have in a 93R17. Oddly they don't make that combination in either .22LR or .22mag. Also oddly, they don't make a light barreled, left-hand 17HMR.Quote:
Originally Posted by handirifle
I'm just curious how they decided on what combinations to stock in left-hand. Some odd offerings in the centerfire arena as well. I wouldn't care so much if it weren't for the fact that the wait for a left-handed aftermarket stock (and cost thanks to most of the ones out there being from a few high-end makers) is kind of silly. Like I would have to order now to have a hope of having it by next hunting season.