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I write and eat left handed, but do everything else right handed. I had arm broken and shoulder dislocated when young.

How many lefties out there?

left handed. I putt golf and shoot right handed.

I am.

Everything lefty. Makes for missing out on a lot of cool rifles.

lefty here. i don't write like i have a broken claw either like obama does.

my first grade teacher got me off on the right track.

shoot & hammer left handed, golf right handed.

as a non-interesting aside, bush the younger, clinton & obama were all left-handed.

but, i don't know what it might mean.

More or less lefty here. Probably more right hand and left eye dominant.

Do fine work with the left hand, strong work with the right. Shoot, write, use eating utensils with the left hand but bat and throw a ball with the right hand and catch with the left, play guitar (well, try to play) normally using the right to strum and left to finger the notes but use a hammer with the left hand. Could never shoot a bow worth a hoot, I draw it right handed but am trying to aim with the left eye so it looks across the arrow instead of down it.

Rub one out with my left hand.
Feels like I'm getting some strange.

Lefties are generally more artistic. Kind of a left brain right brain thing.

I'm ambidextrous as well...mostly right.

My third grade teacher, Mrs. Waters, damned me to a life of horribly bad handwriting, especially cursive. She made me slant my paper the same way as all the other right handed kids so I push the letters across the page instead of pulling them as they are meant to be written. Got so used to it that now when I try to slant it the opposite way the letters march up across the page.

A curiousity is that when I try to write right handed it comes out a perfect mirror image going right to left. Not the greatest penmanship but it's easily readable in a mirror.

Interesting. You and Quagmire do it the same...

no such things as left-handed guns when i was growing up. not in my community anyways.

shot pump guns, semi-autos, and right hand turn bolts. they all worked just fine. like the classic stocks though, hate the cheekpiece on the wrong side.

I have a Kleinguenther with a left hand cheekpiece on it. I’m gonna have it taken off after deer season.

Total lefty here, but have the ability to swap shoulders quickly with a shotgun on a fast passing bird from right to left....or the occasional coyote out the truck window, unhandy for a lefty.

I use pen or pencil with my left hand, I sometimes cram food with both hands, I generally pull a trigger with a finger on my right hand, & I wipe with toilet paper. When taking care of personal business, I can switch hands & gain a stroke..

Wrenches, hammers, saws etc. can be used with either hand.

I shoot bow & gun Lefty, everything else righty.

Total lefty here too. Although as I grow older, I have become more ambidextrous. I think it is from having more patience with the right handed world we live in. Almost all tools, etc. are right handed.

On an interesting note, when I was in college years ago, a professor had an ongoing experiment. On the first day of a large auditorium sized class (200+ students), he would ask all lefties to raise their hand. We were all sitting on the first 2 rows. He said it was always that way.

Lefty just about all the way.

Early teachers tried very hard to get me in the right side.

It did not work.

But I do have a bunch of left-handed rifles that I adore.

Life turned out to be pretty good for this 78 year old hunter.

Steve

Lefty here, do everything Left handed except batting and golfing. Though I can bat and golf both ways. Afraid to use the term switch hitter around this gang.

If it requires finesse (writing, eating,etc.), left-handed. If it requires strength (throwing, lifting, etc.), right-handed. Right eye dominant, shoot righty.

I’m left handed if I look in the mirror 😊