Left-handed shooters seeing more bolt options on the table

By Jacki Billings

More gun makers are offering left handed bolt guns for southpaw shooters. Top: Savage BA Stealth, Middle: Browning Micro Midas, Bottom: Ruger American Rifle. (Graphic: Jacki Billings)
Comprising approximately 10-percent of the population, southpaws generally have to learn to live in a right-handed world. In the past, for gun owners, this meant adapting to guns configured for right-handed use. However, times are changing and as customization takes a larger role in gun owners’ arsenal, so do guns designed to adapt to lefties.
More and more pistol companies offer ambidextrous controls to grant left-handed shooters the ability to operate magazine releases, safeties and slide locks/releases more efficiently. The AR-15 platform, with its modular style that already gives shooters the customization capabilities, allows shooters to literally build what they need from the ground up.
Bolt guns, however, have long given lefties a slight headache forcing them to change shooting position or awkwardly reach around the rifle in order to cycle the bolt. Realizing a need for left-specific firearms, more companies are beginning to answer the call and provide more bolt rifle options to southpaws.
Savage Arms currently touts more than 20 left-handed models ranging from tactical rifles to hunting and target competition. Firearms Communication Manager JJ 

Source: Guns.com