>ISTR that operating a bolt
>was weird when learning to shoot

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned bolt-action rifles. There is actually such a thing as a left-handed bolt-action rifle, but even as the kind of lefty that can't get righty scissors to work, I've never minded the right-handed kind. I still shoot them left-handed, but in fact, the bolt on a right-handed bolt-action rifle seems to me to be correctly positioned for a left-handed shooter to work it, because it's my right hand that's over there anyway. To work a left-handed bolt, I'd have to take my left hand off the important bit, which has always struck me as Doing It Wrong. A rare case of a standard configuration arguably working better for a lefty.

Ian at Forgotten Weapons will demonstrate.

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