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Even though I posted this in the custom rifles forums when I got it, I will add it to this collection



Lenard Brownell stocked Rem 700 in .270 Win.

Picked this up last year. LH PO Ackley Mauser. Had it re-bored to 6.5x55.

2 LH Zastavas in 7x57 and 9.3x62
2 SS Ruger MK IIs in 7x57 and 9.3x62
2 M70 Classics in 06 and 300 win mag

Not sure what to do with the M70s. Thinking a 300 H&H and 400 H&H. Or maybe a 300 win mag and a 416 rem mag. or a 338-06 and a 416 taylor. Those are the ones which really make me want to do something.

Left hand 700ks in 35 Whalen and a LH 700 FS in 338 Win.

Dean

I have (maybe too) many rare LH rifles! I include both LH bolts and LH cheek pieces as qualifying. I don't have time for pics so here are a few verbal descriptions:

- a J. Jongmans, manufactured 1982 in New Zealand! 7mm-08. Rare as a unicorn there and here. Reportedly a total of less than 500 rifles were forged by this custom builder, with the number of LH actions unknown. Almost all are still in New Zealand and Australia. Octagonal receiver and barrel, tang safety;
- a RH Sako Vixen 22-250 in a factory LH stock;
- a HVA true LH in 25-06 factory barrel. Found in a middle-of-nowhere MT gunshop;
- a M1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer in factory Vienna LH stock and claw-mount scope, with a sequentially matching RH version provenanced to an Austrian Countess;
- a Winchester M70 Classic rebarreled to 338-06 Lilja in a take-down configuration, with a second 25-06 barrel/forend built for it.

I think I'd be bored if I was a RH shooter. It is much more fun searching the world for the unicorns of the LH rifle world!

I couldn't sell the pair or the take-down, but if anybody is intrigued by the others, let me know.







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I'd love to see a photo of your New Zealand built 7mm-08

I guess that would be my lefthanded 788 remmy in 6mm. the one I just bought is fairly rare Remington 700 cdl with brake in 300rum. you don't see many of them.

+1 ... Would also love to see pics of the HVA and Win take down set.

Yep pictures of the take down would be greaty appreciated.

Thanks Chris

Rare to me only because they don’t make it any longer. Browning A-Bolt stainless stalker in a 280 Remington.

Mine are probably my left handed Model 700 KS in 300 Wby and my left handed Sako 308 in a mannlicher stock.

I have a LH Sako 22-250 in a mannlicher stock that I suspect would be my most rare rifle.

After reading all the way through this thread, I have concluded that I own one LH rifle which appears to be truly unique: A Ruger Hawkeye, originally in 7mm Remington Magnum, now rebored and rechambered to .358 Norma Magnum. Sort of a modern day version of my .350 Rigby Magnum.

I have yet to hunt with it, but I am satisfied that it will do anything the .35 Whelen can do, and more. Almost in the class of my .350 G&H Magnum.

Had a LH Sako 358 NM and it gives you a good solid 200 fps over my 35 Whelen, it should have been at least as popular as the 338 WM and 375 H&H. Maybe if it wasn't a European round it would have done better here. Great round for sure.

Got a LH Carl Gustav in 25-06. Bought for my wife 15 years or so ago but she hasn't really hunted it. I'm thinking of taking it out this year even though it's "wrong" handed for me!

Although I don't exactly refer to it as rare, one doesn't see left hand 22 hornets often. This one is a Kimber of Oregon.

And there's this Sako 22-250, imported by Stoeger.

Having a 275 Rigby made up now on a LH commercial 98.

Some of the lefties, just run of the mill Ruger, Savage, Montana Rifle, CZ, Remington, DPMS, Winchester, etc.

I have a Kimber of Oregon LH model 84 in 6x47 (.222 mag necked up to 6mm) with a fiberglass stock painted like the rifle in one of the first posts in this thread. At first I thought they might be the same rifle, but I think that one is a matt and the blue on mine os glossy.. but it could have been: that post was from 2013 and I bought mine around 2016.
A very great many interesting left-hand rifles have been posted and discussed here. I think my other rarest rifles are once again from Kimber of Oregon: two Model 82 Classic rifles in .22lr and .22 Hornet; and two Model 84 Classic rifles in .17 Rem. and .222 Rem.