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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: 270Shooter on February 08, 2009, 01:38:57 PM

Title: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on February 08, 2009, 01:38:57 PM: Hey I want to get a left handed shotgun for waterfowl since my O/U is too nice for me to take on duck hunts. And I don't have a whole lot of money to spend. I would also really like a semi auto but there aren't many in my price range (below $600) :yike:. And I am wondering if a shotgun like the Charles Daly Field hunter VR-MC is any good.
http://www.charlesdaly.com/fsemi.asp
If you have shot one of these or have one please tell me how it performes. I have heard good and bad about it and I am wondering what your experiances are with it. If it isn't any good I may just get an 870 express, but I don't really want a pump.
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: mossback91 on February 08, 2009, 06:31:33 PM: why you got to be an outsider and be a lefty? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 509er on February 08, 2009, 06:36:43 PM: used Browning BPS might be an option to look into if you go pump
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on February 08, 2009, 06:48:55 PM: Quote from: mossback91 on February 08, 2009, 06:31:33 PM
why you got to be an outsider and be a lefty? :chuckle:
Tell me about it!!!!!!!!!! I hate being a lefty :bash: :bash: :bash:

I have thought about the bps but they seem awful heavy.
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: Red Dawg on February 08, 2009, 06:50:33 PM: someday you will have man hands ;)
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: KwackWacker on February 09, 2009, 04:33:16 PM: He's too cheap to buy a benelli M2....and that's what he needs for next year when he's driving his buddies all over eastern WA duck hunting :chuckle:

He's got a nice berreta onyx but he can't hit :crap: with it and he thinks a better gun is gonna help him :chuckle: :chuckle: :DOH:
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on February 09, 2009, 04:34:55 PM: Quote from: KwackWacker on February 09, 2009, 04:33:16 PM
He's too cheap to buy a benelli M2....and that's what he needs for next year when he's driving his buddies all over eastern WA duck hunting :chuckle:

He's got a nice berreta onyx but he can't hit :crap: with it and he thinks a better gun is gonna help him :chuckle: :chuckle: :DOH:
Ya I am cheap. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: And Poor. :(
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on February 11, 2009, 05:12:26 PM: So nobody has shot one of these shotguns?
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on March 09, 2009, 05:26:22 PM: So nobody has shot a charles daly shotgun?????????
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: road.kill on March 09, 2009, 07:54:52 PM: No charles daly here

But i do have a left handed M2 and i like it alot. I know its not in the price range but it was mentioned up above.

I dont really mind shooting right handed guns but it does make it nice when you have a lefty one just for you.

I also had an O/U before I bought my M2, and couldnt justify dirtyin up such a purty gun
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on March 09, 2009, 08:08:38 PM: Yeah the M2 would be awesome. But I can't spend that much money on a gun I may not use that much.

Unless maybe they make it without the comfortec stock, in a lefty configuration. But i dought it.
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: road.kill on March 09, 2009, 08:39:39 PM: I dont think you can get them new that way (could be wrong) but i think the older SBEI didnt have the comfortech and they mightve made those in LH. Maybe used or something?
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: @RCHER on March 10, 2009, 04:11:25 PM: That's what I was thinking as well. I own an SBE in left-hand and have used it almost exclusively for everything over the past 10 years. Hands down best auto-loader I've shot. I'd think you could find a used one to fit your budget.
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: Huntbear on March 10, 2009, 07:22:18 PM: Remington makes an 870 that has the ejection port on the wrong side. :chuckle:

Yes, it is a pump, but will last longer than any auto you may look at. :twocents:
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: @RCHER on March 11, 2009, 02:14:44 AM: The Rem 1100 and 1187 comes in LH as well. I have a LH 1100 setup with a 24" barrel for quail and sporting clays.

I used to be right-handed, but overcame my handicap at an early age. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: robb92 on March 11, 2009, 02:35:59 AM: I have heard mixed things about the dailys.
But with anything you either get a good one or a lemon.
I am also left handed but two of my shotguns are right handed and so is my rifle. I also have two really nice o/u and used them all the time for pigeon shooting in England, and since I have been back in the states I have them wrapped in towels in the the gun safe so the wood doesn't get scratched.
Title: Re: Lefty Shotgun
Post by: 270Shooter on March 11, 2009, 06:20:13 PM: I wouldn't mind a right handed semi auto. But the gas getting in my eyes hurts bad. Plus the saftey in on the wrong side for me too.

I might try and look around for a used benelli M2 or SBE. But I dought I will find many in yakima.