Left handed Rifle Options

There are a lot of good rifles out there, and they all make a lefty (I think). You can get a Savage for $500 that will drive tacks until Jesus comes back, get the $900 Browning, or go drop $3k on a custom rifle. Are you buying it just to look at, or are you going to hunt with it and get dinged up?

I too have a lh tikka 7mm Remington

My Father bought me a browning a-bolt micro medallion when I was 9 years old. Micro being the youth model which only meant the stock is shaved off an inch. I still use it to this day and I am 30 now and stand 6'1. Just had to move the scope up over time. Bottom line is I love it and mine is a 7mm 08 which is great if you have youth in mind. basically a necked down 308 that can be loaded down for kids to shoot comfortably if you had youth in mind

I have a Tikka t3 in 30-06 and a Ruger MK2 in 270. Love them both. Will never part with them.

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I have a LH Tikka Lite T3, stainless synthetic that I’m partial to.

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I have that rifle in 6.5 CM, I like it ok, but it doesn't have the accuracy that I expected. Bought a LH Savage axis in the same caliber, It outshoots the Tikka by a big margin, but it's not nearly as nice of a rifle. Go figure.

So a month or two ago I built (bought parts and assembled) a bolt action rifle.

I had done several ARs both 80% and finished and 3 polymer 80 Glocks.

The bolt action was way easier. The only difficult part was getting the headspace correct. That’s done with a go and no-go gauges. Had I had a barrel vise it would have taken 2 min.

Only reason I’m saying this is, if you want a legacy rifle you can build one and build it exactly the way you want and it will likely outshoot mass produced rifle.

I'm assuming from your interest in the medallion that you want something that looks as good as it performs. I had the same desire a few months ago and looked at a bunch of guns. xBolt Medallion, M70 supergrade/maple/etc, bergara timber, a few others. At some point I stumbled on an Rowa, an Austrian company that does semi-custom switch barrel rifles. Click on the configurator to build up what you want (don't worry about the Euros, you will pay the same number but in dollars ordering through TR imports). TR imports, Their only US importer, happens to be a few blocks from my office in Fort Worth so I went over there and looked at a bunch of them. I ended up getting one in .243 and got it in a few weeks ago. I am very happy with it. I finally got a chance to start figuring out what it likes today. I tried 4 different off the shelf loads. 2 gave me 1.15" groups and the other two came in around 0.75". I'm by no means a good shot so I was more than pleased. I'll probably end up getting a .308 barrel for it as well. Anyway, enough rambling, just another option to consider. Here are a couple pictures of how mine looks.

How much was the Rowa? I did the configurator, but I was up like $2800 before I quit. Just wonder what they actually run.

I'm 53 and have never had a "left handed Rifle". I had a brass deflector for my M-16 in the Army (most of the time), but I've never had an issue with a civilian rifle.

ETA: I don't understand the need. Is this for some type of competitive shooting?