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Posted: 5/17/2008 7:43:22 PM EDT
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We've pretty much given up trying to change the minds of the great unwashed.  If they want to spend their bucks on a non standard piece, and take a $2-300 beating if they ever want to sell it; or worse if they keep it and something breaks 5-10 years down the road and there aren't any more parts available for the lefty version, who are we to camplain? Me? I'd rather spend $5 for a couple of Wolff HD extractor springs, that change the ejection pattern to straight out so I don't have to worry about getting hit w/an empty, and not have to look at that half assed ejection port cover that flips straight up. 
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Yeah, like us left-handers are too stupid to have spare parts lying around, like the great intellect of the right.  Besides, how many parts on an AR lefty are different . . . . 3, maybe 4. Left-handed people are the ONLY minority that is always discriminated against and has no legislative body to fight for their rights. Hell, homosexuals have more "rights" then the left-hander that was truly born being a certain way. Pardon my spew, but even in jest, ignorance pisses me off!! 
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The directions the empties eject is not the issue for me at least. I just want that big ass ejection port as far from my pretty face as I can get it in case something was to go catastrophic. Maybe I am weird but I like as much metal as possible between me and all that screaming hot gas and brass shrapnel  . As far as having to look at the half assed ejection port cover that flips straight up goes, I bet your a pretty poor shot if that is what your looking at while shooting. Granted I haven't tried your way as I tend to do best while looking at the sights when shooting and it stays closed when I am not shooting. Additionally why would any one sell a perfectly good rifle and if they had to why wouldn't another lefty buy it? I just think that some people are jealous of us lefties as most of us can shoot well both left and right handed from being forced to for many years and most right handed shooters can't.
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Boy, are you guys hostile. Listen children, I've been left handed since the day I was born; and that was longer ago thn either of you were around (maybe both of you combined). Been an AR15/M16 owner/shooter since 1963, and been shooting semi and full auto rifles since 1954. I long since learned to look thru the sights and ignore everything else when I'm shooting. Now, y'all want a left handed AR, bless you. I really don't give a damn. Was just trying to add a jocular response to the posting about "now we'll hear from". Obviously you babies are grossly oversensitive about being southpaws. What a pity. I've always kind of enjoyed it myself.
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Hey Grandpa, I love being left-handed. What I get tired of is the cheap shots from right-handed people that think they've got it all figured out for us lefties, like they even have a clue how to do anything left-handed. I'm impressed with your tenure and experience, but shame on you for getting your own troops riled up for nothing. I'm I sensitive about being left-handed? Nope. Just over listening to slack-jawed trolls. All is good. 
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So much bullshit and so little time. Let's see, where to begin.... Taking a beating on resale? Really? Prove it. Prove that a used Stag lefty upper takes a $200-300 depreciation hit over and above a used right-handed upper. Good luck with that one. No parts available? Again, prove it. Given that Stag is part of CMT, one of the largest AR manufacturers in the USA, it is HIGHLY unlikely that they'll go belly-up. And even if they do, at most I'd be out an upper receiver since the lower is 100% standard. In fact, I can even reuse all the parts except the upper receiver on a standard upper. Or I could buy the three or four lefty parts I need right now and be good to go forever. As for looking at a port cover that flips up (oh, the horror of it all!), I'd much rather have that port than a standard one if I manage to pull the trigger on a bad round of ammo. Your face may be ugly as hell and not worth protecting. Mine, on the other hand, is nothing of the sort. Eugene Stoner put the port on the side opposite the shooter's face for a reason. If you think doing otherwise is a "feature," you're an idiot. |
Dang Father Time  ,,,,I'm not hostile, at least I didn't intend for my post to be. I got your jocular intention in your first post with the emoticons (big grin and winking faces) and all. I figured you would get my humorous intentions also with me using them as well and mentioning my pretty face. Maybe your still looking at that half assed ejection port cover that flips straight up. I apologize if I upset you, I would never want to do that to a fellow right brainer.
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Get the Stag as it is a true lefty. The DPMS LH upper is a compromise that uses a RH bolt and carrier assy. The problem with that is in operation the spent gases are expelled into the upper. I have one and it is not the way to go. If DPMS went to the trouble to convert the bolt carrier to vent to the left side it would be just fine. As far as resale value, I have never seen any evidence of LH rifles being re-sold for less. Hell I'll pay a premium for one as other left handed shooters I know. It is just a smaller market and even fewer choices.  As previously mentioned, having a LH AR is about safety (do a search for pictures on a "kaboom" and imagine if your face was looking into the ejection port) more than any other single point, that and the spent gases in the face. Hell if AR's ejected from the bottom it would be a moot point. |
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