WyoM70,
Berit worked the bolt handle on that Ruger 7-08 very quickly, despite being left-handed. About a decade ago I was involved in a "hunting shooting school" started by gunsmith Charlie Sisk, held in South Texas every winter. One of the stations was a charging Cape buffalo target, and you had to be really fast on a bolt-handle to get three shots into the paper buffalo while it charged. 90% of people were happy to get two. During the second year Berit and her second husband, Bill, came as guests, and she brought along her 7-08. She could get two "killing" shots into the buffalo pretty easily, despite the wrong-sided bolt handle.
Charlie, however, decided she needed a left-handed rifle, so built her one, as I recall another 7-08. It was the first time she'd even shot a left-handed bolt in her life, and she loved it!
