Time to spruce up a 10/22

[cofi]

i like the archangel kit

[Byte Stryke]

So, when will someone come out with a bull pup kit for us leftys ? Damn rightys need to be thinned out a little so the manufacturers will start making the fun stuff for southpaws.

pretty sure as its a small shop they can do it.
you can always call and ask.

[SideShow Bob]

pretty sure as its a small shop they can do it.
you can always call and ask.

The 10/22 is a right side eject, and a bull pup configuration for a lefty would still eject shells into the left cheek or eye, Ruger would have to start producing lefty 10/22s first.
But do give credit to Stag arms for making a lefty AR. Although it feels totally wierd after adapting to a standard AR for all these years. So I only have the standard AR.

[Byte Stryke]

The 10/22 is a right side eject, and a bull pup configuration for a lefty would still eject shells into the left cheek or eye, Ruger would have to start producing lefty 10/22s first.
But do give credit to Stag arms for making a lefty AR. Although it feels totally wierd after adapting to a standard AR for all these years. So I only have the standard AR.

I was not aware that Ruger didn't make a lefty.

color me educated

[SAnd]

Here's my bullpup version of a 10/22.

[theGinsue]

Ruger would have to start producing lefty 10/22s first.

~ A year ago, I had a little face-to-face talk with the president of Ruger along with one of his major sales/marketing guys about this very subject - they don't make enough left-handed firearms (I brought up a specific example of how I can go buy a Ruger right-handed stainless steel with synthetic stock M77 in .30-06 & other calibers, but I can't get a left handed stainless steel M77 with or without a synthetic stock in any caliber (sure, they have a few blued versions, but not stainless).

The response I got was that it would cost them too much to set up manufacturing for left-handed items (What, can't use the existing lefty equip to make a stainless rifle instead of the blued? And the stock... really? The damned things are poured into a mold - just need lefty molds, not total retooling. They really dwelled on the cost of making the lefty stocks and how it wasn't worth it. I told them to make the lefty stainless steel rifle and just put one of their wood stocks on it and us lefties would buy an after-market synthetic stock to put on the gun. That pissed them off.

I informed them that the market was there for them to be the industry leader in lefty bolt action rifles if they were just willing to seize it. I was informed that I was wrong and there was really next to no market for lefty guns. I told them to check out Stag Arms for the AR15 market and see how well their lefty guns were making $$ for that company and maybe they'd see I was right.

In the end, they've permanently lost a buyer for any more left-handed (or even right-handed) bolt action rifles because of their attitude of disregard towards lefties.