A south paws view on tube feed rifles

[Oldbrass]

Lot's of mud slinging about Henrys tube feed across the interwebs, Big deal I say. The great minority in the firearms world are lefties. As a Lefty I have a Marlin 30-30 and actually prefer the tube of a Henry.(possible trade in the future) When someone makes a lever with left side loading gate I'll get excited. Now wouldn't that be sumthin !

[leverjc]

I am a right hander and think a loading gate on the left hand side of a rifle would be good as I could reload with my left hand.

[JEBar]

as a right hand shooter, I don't have issues with a standard right side loading gate or ejection port .... in thinking about it, I'm a bit surprised some manufacture doesn't market a left handed model

[brm4450]

I’m a south paw and I like the tube feeder! I would really appreciate a rifle that ejects the shell away from face!

[Rifletom]

I'm right handed, but, shoot with left eye. Left eye dominate thing. Tube fed never has bothered me. What, the whinners never shot a tube fed rimfire!? They have, they enjoyed it, but........
Ok,done.

[Sir Henry]

I shoot both right and left handed and see no difference with a tube or magazine feed. What really makes the difference is the action. A bolt I work completely different left and right. A lever they operate the same.

[BigAl52]

Ive used both in different situations. I like both but in a hunting situation give me a tube feed. Its alot easier to open it up and dump the rounds out the end that it is to run them through the action.

[Team Roper]

Being right hand, I like them both , have both, but still lean towards the gate. Living and hunting in Ohio and with only three rounds in the rifle for deer hunting allowed, I have no issues with unloading through the gate simply by pushing on the gate and have the rounds slide right into my fingers. Of course, I have to lever the one in the chamber out, same as you would with a Henry as well too. I see a lot of the mud slinging too and most of it are just opinions because some poster seen it fit to ask but when it comes to the name calling, well, I see that as being childish.

[fortyshooter]

A Lefty here also BUT I shoot my rifles right handed and hand guns mostly left. The tube loading is not a deal killer for me and it is handy for unloading. Main advantage of the side load is being able to quickly top off on the run.
If the Henry models I currently have would have been available with both gate and tube I would have selected those but not going to repurchase if and when such models become available.

[JEBar]

If the Henry models I currently have would have been available with both gate and tube I would have selected those but not going to repurchase if and when such models become available.

understood .... with the exception of loading a small number of rounds, I've come to prefer a tube feed ....