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Posted: 4/4/2013 7:17:33 AM EDT
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Thinking about buying a left handed AR locally just to get the lower.
Is there enough demand for left hand uppers to sell it here? Also has a left hand Slide Fire stock. |
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As a lefty I started kicking around the idea of building a left handed AR and sought some advice here as well.
After researching parts I decided against it, at least for right now. Stag makes a pretty decent left handed model from what I've heard. I handled one several weeks ago at a LGS and it was nice. Price tag was $1,400 though.....no thanks. |
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As a lefty I started kicking around the idea of building a left handed AR and sought some advice here as well. After researching parts I decided against it, at least for right now. Stag makes a pretty decent left handed model from what I've heard. I handled one several weeks ago at a LGS and it was nice. Price tag was $1,400 though.....no thanks. I had forgot you were left handed. My wife was watching a Travis Haley video with me last night and he was doing malfunction drills. After watching it for a minute she said "now how am I supposed to do that left handed?" I didn't have a good answer so I didn't give an answer at all. ETA: I'm tired of seeing you post here without a membership. Log out, log back in, and find a decent avatar. 
See ya brother. |
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Quoted: As a lefty I started kicking around the idea of building a left handed AR and sought some advice here as well. After researching parts I decided against it, at least for right now. Stag makes a pretty decent left handed model from what I've heard. I handled one several weeks ago at a LGS and it was nice. Price tag was $1,400 though.....no thanks. Proud owner of a Stag 2TL I got mine for ~$900 total Damn straight shooter, wouldn't trade it for anything. And I would say it being left handed makes it MORE valuable. Just be sure to have a couple backup LH Bolts just in case. I love handing it to right handed shooters who take it for granted its gonna eject right.
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| I'm a lefty and have completely adapted throughout my life to righty world. Shooting a left handed AR would actually throw me off at this point. And to be honest, I have yet to get hit in the eye with an empty casing from any of the AR's I've owned. Now, I have taken one to the forehead but it was once, and I didn't really care. I will not buy any lefty s//auto rifle. My bolty's however, are lefty. I can shoot the righty ones just fine too. Like the guy in Saving Private Ryan... |
| I'm also a left handed shooter, at least I became one in during basic 8 years ago. Couldn't really hit shit right handed, so to make a long story short I switched. It's a little more cumbersome doing malfunction drills at first, but I assure you it is possible and repetition is your friend. Since then I've worked a bit shooting as a righty and I'm better but it feels very awkward and not at all comfortable. I would never invest in a left handed upper as its just not necessary. There's enough ambi stuff to make it better and I don't want deal with even a small amount of non standard parts. |
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As a long time left handed shooter, I've found no use for a left handed AR. So even your smaller "left hand resale market" is limited to users who care.
None of my AR's have Ambi safeties, mag releases of anything except a Seekins I'm putting together and I really just did it for novelty. Is there a particular function that bothers you while shooting left handed? |
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Lets get this back on topic.
OP, if you were to acquire this rifle how much do you want for the upper? What brand is it? STAG or DPMS? I have a STAG lefty upper.receiver/BCG on one of my builds and love it. Some lefty shooters don't mind having their nose in the ejection port, but personally I enjoy having the hot gas and brass vented out the other side of the weapon. Is there demand? Back in December STAG stopped selling lefty receivers and BCGs as discrete components because everything they could produce was going into a growing backlog of rifle orders. Let that speak for itself. |
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I think RRA makes a lefty too. they do along with stag, im a lefty and i shoot glocks right handed use my index finger for mag drop. then on my AR i just use a raptor CH and badass saftey selector. everything else is right hand. btw i also come up with my right thumb too release the mag drop its simple simon. |
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Lets get this back on topic. OP, if you were to acquire this rifle how much do you want for the upper? What brand is it? STAG or DPMS? I have a STAG lefty upper.receiver/BCG on one of my builds and love it. Some lefty shooters don't mind having their nose in the ejection port, but personally I enjoy having the hot gas and brass vented out the other side of the weapon. Is there demand? Back in December STAG stopped selling lefty receivers and BCGs as discrete components because everything they could produce was going into a growing backlog of rifle orders. Let that speak for itself. There's one thing here I agree with... The gas up my nose. But I actually like it... Kinda like smelling a freshly opened bottle of Hoppe's... |
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