No Love for Leftys :(

[BIGBOSS_202]

I'm left handed. Esthetics's are important for me when it comes to marker manipulation (handling). I find it incredible troubling that this idea isn't really taken into account when a marker or a marker accessories developed. The same goes with firearms. I like folding stocks yet I can't find one that folds to the left side of the marker or firearm. It's like, I'm forced to look for it to be custom made and that can be pretty expensive. Today, their are some left handed friendly version of some firearms or ambidextrous versions. Yet sadly that are few and far between. Are their any left handed shooters that share my sentiments?

[Enhander]

I write left handed, but everything else is right handed. Ive tried shooting lefty...doesnt work for me lol

[BIGBOSS_202]

I write left handed, but everything else is right handed. Ive tried shooting lefty...doesn't work for me lol

I'm decent on shooting with my right hand, yet it's weired for me to do it. Writing with the right hand is out of the question for me lol. I've always been good with my left hand.

[Varnel]

Left handed market is to small and would cost companies to much to meet all their needs. Sucks but how it is.

[BIGBOSS_202]

Left handed market is to small and would cost companies to much to meet all their needs. Sucks but how it is.

Maybe but their is an unadapted market for it lol

[Varnel]

Very small unadapted market, not large enough for companies to make cash. That's what it all comes down to. Companies don't care about you, they care about cash. If there was enough money to be made in this market it would of already been hit hard.

[BIGBOSS_202]

I'm a minority. I will say however that my situation on that gives guys like Engler their money. They do the custom work, so maybe the market on that is tapped even in a liited way lol

[sn toter]

IRT paintball, not firearms...

I find it incredible troubling that this idea isn't really taken into account when a marker or a marker accessories developed.

How so?  Excluding the big milsim guys (Tippmann mostly), who mass produces markers with a specific orientation?  Back in the 90's I could better see this kind of blanket statement being valid - when all markers were side fed and righty grip panels were everywhere. If you aren't talking about the industry as a whole, mayhaps a blanket statement like this could be more specific since most markers produced today are symmetrical down the center, favoring neither the right OR left. Unfortunately, if you only have a desire to shoot Tippys or the like (and their accessories), you're not going to see a change. They only get a piece of the pie as it is, and there is no cost effective way for them to make right AND left feed markers en mass.

If you're that uncomfortable with the setup, try something that's altogether unbiased towards your orientation.  A centerfeed automag, perhaps.

[Enhander]

IRT paintball, not firearms...

I find it incredible troubling that this idea isn't really taken into account when a marker or a marker accessories developed.

How so?  Excluding the big milsim guys (Tippmann mostly), who mass produces markers with a specific orientation?  Back in the 90's I could better see this kind of blanket statement being valid - when all markers were side fed and righty grip panels were everywhere. If you aren't talking about the industry as a whole, mayhaps a blanket statement like this could be more specific since most markers produced today are symmetrical down the center, favoring neither the right OR left. Unfortunately, if you only have a desire to shoot Tippys or the like (and their accessories), you're not going to see a change. They only get a piece of the pie as it is, and there is no cost effective way for them to make right AND left feed markers en mass.

If you're that uncomfortable with the setup, try something that's altogether unbiased towards your orientation.  A centerfeed automag, perhaps.

Automag FTW

[BIGBOSS_202]

I would say that a mag fed marker is a good compromise if you have the money for it. Yet I love my X7. Yet not that many stocks are made to help with that for one reason or another. Same thing can be said for the firearms industry. We see many new rifles that are ambidextrous yet their stocks are geared more for right handed shooters.

[Riddler]

A centerfeed automag, perhaps.

I would say that a mag fed marker is a good compromise if you have the money for it. Yet I love my X7. Yet not that many stocks are made to help with that for one reason or another.

Automag != mag-fed.

And what's wrong with paintball stocks?  All I've seen you say is that some folding ones fold to the right.  So... Don't buy one of those?  Personally, I don't particularly care for Tippmanns, especially ones made in the last 10 or 15 years, but I don't go around complaining about them - I just buy something different.

[Foxxy]

Riddler and Toter are right. If you want a stock, get a collapsible sliding stock, not a folding. And your problem is mainly for only milsim markers like stated before. The market is already divided for those who want milsim and those who don't. Thee milsim market isn't large enough to make both left and right handed markers. That is basically the gist of what everyone here is said. Yes?

[Freeman]

I don't go around complaining about them - I just buy something different.[/quote by riddler


+1 to you sir.