Left handed holsters

[gnappi]

My being left handed can be considered a curse by many but being right eyed dominant I learned to shoot right handed and often shoot lefty and I'm pretty good at it. At matches I used to like tweaking the noses of RO's when the conversation went something like... "shoot this weak handed" and I said yup, right handed.  No left handed they said, and I replied I'm lefty so it's my strong hand right is my weak side. :-)

Anyway, over my lifetime I have had my right hand or arm injured (carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, serious cuts or bruises etc.) and I try to have one left handed holster in the event I experience a right arm/hand injury. It's come in handy more than once and since I'm confident in my LH shooting it doesn't feel odd to carry "weak side". 

So I'm looking to update a few holsters lefty and I wonder if anyone trains with their weak hand and / or has a holster to accommodate a strong side arm / hand injury?

[wilecoyote]

SD, hunting, or what ?

and for which handguns?

(lefty too, here)

[junebug]

I keep a couple of left hand holsters around for my carry guns. Had rotator cuff surgery on right arm so needed the left hand holsters. I also had a CRKT neck knife velcroed to the inside of my sling, just incase I needed to cut a sammich or something.

[gnappi]

Mar 27, 2024 17:18:56 GMT -5 wilecoyote said:

SD, hunting, or what ?

and for which handguns?

(lefty too, here)

 All, whichever. 

[jessejaymes]

I am still active FLEA. Similar. Right handed naturally. Left eye dominant. Taught myself to shoot left handed very young. A curse, as nothing is available left handed. And I too have capitalized on some "cheap" points in competition. I shoot VERY well with my right hand. Generally have to concentrate to use my right eye though.

When challenged during a quarterly qualification...I took the entire gun belt of a young Pup. His gun, his belt, his mags and shot 358/360. Handed his belt back to him and walked off.

All my holsters are lefty. But I don't have much leather. And honestly I don't train with my revolvers. More hunting applications, than SD.

If you have plastic guns, I can provide some advice. But I took and looking to add some "weaksided, Strong handed" gear.

[paleroadster]

Both my carry guns get run two handed, right hand and left hand every range trip they make. I'm right hand left eye dominant. I was probably in my early twenties when I realized I kind of lay my ear on my shoulder when shooting to get the left eye on sights. Probably a quarter of my shooting from those guns is left hand, just in case. I don't own any left hand holsters. Target/hunting I shoot all right hand, except archery, all my Darton bows are LH, can't really lay my head over through the sting after all.

[rangersedge]

I had surgery on right wrist. Now own several left handed holsters; but most are self defense oriented.

[wilecoyote]

 ...in my opinion, holsters follow the same law as grips, but even more as a strictly personal choice_

being forced to use the weak hand does not necessarily mean one is left-handed (or right-handed, in my case)_

anyway a SD belt holster can be often moved toward the center of the back just enough to allow for weak-handed extraction.

about shoulder holsters, without resorting to traditional cross-draw, a nice example is given below  here, at 0:47

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7VGanB--fU

even if it's just Hollywood, the concept is there...

I don't know if that's what you ask for, but if what you need are photos about (mostly vintage) lh holsters, what I have can be photographed without problems _