Getting a shotgun for Christmas and I am left-eye dominant. I have always just shot my dad's over/under and not really had to deal with a right handed gun. After looking into it, I want to get the Beretta A300, however it does not come in a left handed model, only a kit to reverse the safety for lefties. What difficulties would a lefty deal with loading/shooting a right handed semi auto?

I think you would get the ejected shell casing in your face every time you fired.

Get one that ejects on the bottom, best of both worlds

It's not too big of a deal. Skeet shooting used to make my eyes burn/hurt from all the smoke after a little bit. I never really noticed the spent shell being ejected. I used right handed guns for awhile but was happy when I finally got a left handed gun. I have a Remington 1187

Occassionally I shoot a right handed gun now and it only bothers me if I am shooting a lot of shells at one time (hunting isn't too bad since the firing is intermittent).

BPS I now you probably don't want a pump but shells go both in and out the bottom and has a thumb safety. Perfect for left and right handed shooters.

I shoot lefty with a right handed auto and have never had an issue. I would buy a lefty auto if it were available at the same price and I never intended to sell. I wouldn't avoid a model simply because it wasn't offered for those of us that use a greater percentage of our brains.

Never had an issue with shells flying. Safety backwards was my main issue. But if they have the kit go for it

Left handed shooter here, primarily shoot O/U's but have a Browning A5 (new humpback) that's my duck gun. It ejects right but has a safety that can be reversed which is one of the more annoying things about having to work a standard right handed shotgun as a left hander. Other manufacturers also offer reversible safeties on right handed guns. The shell ejecting across your face isn't a problem.

My remenington wingmasters and 1100s are left handed and it is nice to not have to worry about getting a shell to the face.

My nova is right handed and it doesn't hit me with shells.

My 10/22 doesn't hit.

My buddies 10/22 bullpup hits me.

A lot of guys shoot ARs lefty.

The safety thing is annoying....so much so that I rarely use it on any of my right handed guns. Not because I don't want to but because I think I have hit it when i haven't

Lefty here with right handed 12 gage. I quickly got used to it.

Lefty here. They make left handed guns?

stick93 said:

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Lefty here. They make left handed guns?

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Benelli SBE II.

Love it.

Well, yeah, Ferraris are awesome too but it doesn't mean I can own one.
I shoot a BPS that is great for lefties as stated above. The various times I've shot an 11-87 and a Benelli M2 the ejected shells have never been a problem. Get the shotgun you want, including the consideration of the reversible safety kit, and don't worry about it.

It's worth it if you going to shoot it more than once every five years.

AgResearch said:

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stick93 said:

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Lefty here. They make left handed guns?

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Benelli SBE II.

Love it.

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This!

My brother is left eye dominant (right handed) he hunts just about every weekend. It's def worth it if you use it, probably not annoyance if you only hunt once a month

I was just at gander and saw the left handed safeties seems to be a cheap and easy fix if that is all you are worried about.

Yeah it appears companies are trying to lean towards just having the option to switch safety instead of have an entire left handed gun.

Dubi's recent experience shooting her rifle suppressed. When I tuned it for suppressed, I gave no consideration to the sling, or how the shells would eject with the heavier buffer. She ended the day with a few very mild burns on her arm.

Most definitely worth it. Mine is a Benelli Super Black Eagle. Love it.

Safeties and shells ejecting across your field of vision are or can be annoying. If it's a shotgun with cast off for right handed shooters it can affect your shooting poorly and cause you to make poor adjustments to your gun mount, feel excess recoil, and cause face slap..

But there is one issue that causes me to never ever shoot a right handed semi-auto shotgun - it's all the other crap that comes out of the ejection port in your face. It's not just smoke - burnt powder particles and gas are part of the crap, and God forbid you ever have even a minor malfunction like a pierced primer. Not only is all that gas unhealthy to breathe, it can cause eye damage - long term. I have a pair of sunglasses with plastic lenses that show little tiny pin-hole size burns from one round of sporting clays using a borrowed Remington 1100.

I don't even shoot SAs because of that. My doubles, both O/U and SxS all have stocks that are cast on for left
handed shooters. My repeaters are pumps - Ithaca Model 37s - that eject out the bottom. They both have LH safeties. I would, and have, shot right handed pumps with no issues simply because the bolt is locked to the breech until you work the slide. You don't get a face full of gas and other crap like with a SA.

Right handed and left eye dominant. I shoot long guns left handed.

Ambi safety on 15-22 and AR.

Versamax Tactical no problem
15-22 no problem
AR no problem until I shot it suppressed

We can share guns if I shoot the right handed version.

Get a A400 in Left Hand. Great gun. No recoil.

Never realized this was that big of an issue. I'm left handed but just kinda adapted everything being built for right handed people...similar to how you adjusted to using right handed scissors in class as a kid.

Typically I wouldn't get a lefty, but I won a SBE in a raffle and it was just $100 to switch to a lefty.

For a gun I'll have forever, money well spent.

Left eye and left handed and shoot a lefty AR and a righty A400. Never had an issue with the AR only that I'm so used to shooting righty guns that it feels weird to load it or check for clears and whatnot. Same with my lefty bolt gun.

One of the benefits of shooting the righty shotgun is that I can easily see if it's clear and load it easily with my right hand. Never had an issue with ejecting shells and when really shooting I don't even notice them fly across my face. With quality ammo I've never had any spray from shells, however I was shooting some Rio and kept getting flare ups during one session of sporting clays. Kinds freaked me out bet never gave me reason to change out my shotgun. Figured it was just dirty ammo.

I did change the factory cast on my A400 to lefty so I guess that helped. I wouldn't hesitate going with an A300, though, especially for the price.

Seems like there are two general camps in my personal experience:

Lifelong right handers who happen to be left eye dominate that see the general comfort of a correctly designed tool like most of the other tools in their life.

Lifelong left handers who are use to adapting to right handed tools all their life and make do as is.

As a life long lefty I would say just get a right handed shotgun, maintains resale value, increases the ability to pass it on to another generation and is cheaper to find what you want.

I'm right handed but left eye dominant. I have a Benelli M2 LH that I use for ducks and a new Benelli Ethos 20 RH for dove and quail. I shoot about the same with both, but I prefer loading and having the lefty safety on the left handed gun. I'll get the Ethos safety reversed after quail season since Benelli told me I need to have it done by a gunsmith. The only reason the Ethos isn't left handed is because Benelli doesn't make a wood stock 20 gauge in a left handed model.