I was maybe 10-11 years old, shooting blackbirds in the grove, mother was watching me from the kitchen window. I am right handed and but I was trying to use my left eye to shoot with. She came out and got me to switch shoulders, she was the same way, right handed but shot left. This was before we knew anything about eye dominance.
She grew up in a family of three girls, all good shots. They were expected to supplement the table fare with whatever game was around. We raised horses on the farm and dad worked with a ranch in Wyoming. He and mom would go out each year and get a couple antelope. She would generally out shoot him. Antelope kinda taste like rabbits but I prefer the rabbits, there isn’t as much to them.
Anyway I always shot right handed firearms, don’t know when I discovered they made left hand variants. Probably when I saw my uncle’s left hand Remington 700.
Now I have some left hand shotguns, two 1100s, one trap and one field, two 11-87s a competition and a field, also a BPS and an Ithaca 37.
The 11-87 competition has a target barrel with choke tubes. Laying them out for the photo I realize my son has the “Super full trap” choke, need to get that back. Everything else is fixed choke, the 1100 trap being full, the rest modified.
She grew up in a family of three girls, all good shots. They were expected to supplement the table fare with whatever game was around. We raised horses on the farm and dad worked with a ranch in Wyoming. He and mom would go out each year and get a couple antelope. She would generally out shoot him. Antelope kinda taste like rabbits but I prefer the rabbits, there isn’t as much to them.
Anyway I always shot right handed firearms, don’t know when I discovered they made left hand variants. Probably when I saw my uncle’s left hand Remington 700.
Now I have some left hand shotguns, two 1100s, one trap and one field, two 11-87s a competition and a field, also a BPS and an Ithaca 37.
The 11-87 competition has a target barrel with choke tubes. Laying them out for the photo I realize my son has the “Super full trap” choke, need to get that back. Everything else is fixed choke, the 1100 trap being full, the rest modified.
