For lefty's

Yep, Stag's the only one I've ever seen. It requires a left-handed bolt/carrier assembly, also. Stag carries those, too. They also have a lefty safety, which would probably be nice.
I have a Stag lower on my carbine, and it's nice stuff.

Here's all their left-handed complete rifles:

Stag Arms left-hand list
 
I am lefthanded but my AR's are righty and I have not had any problems at all for what that is worth. I could have gotten lefthanded just chose not to did not see the need and that way if I decided to sell or give one to my kids it would not be an issue.
 
I'll have to second what Venatic wrote. I also shoot left handed but do almost everything else right handed. I have never owned a left handed gun but was going to order a LH Ar until a friend let me shoot his right handed one. I was concerned about getting powder or gas in the eyes as I have had happen to me shooting RH shotguns. It never happened so I went with the RH verison. All I do is change the safety to a LH or Ambidexterious safety and I'm good to go. Resale value was also a big concern. I would shoot a RH version before I bought a LH, I think you will be quite happy with the RH version.
Ken
 
Being a lefty and in my early 60's I never had a left hand rifle, always had to compromise or use a single shot break action, well I finally got my lefty, actually three a model 6L stag and a model 3L stag, and I bought a Savage left hand bolt also. I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park now.
 
I am a big time lefty and the problem I face with my AR has to do primarily with stovepiping due to user error and not the fault of the firearm. Sometimes when I am at a sit with the dust cover closed and my gun resting on the bipod I somehow grip the upper reciever while my thumb touches the dust cover without me noticing. When I fire, I assume I impede the dustcover opening causing a stovepipe or whatever you call it when an empty case gets hung up inside the reciever. Now, I think about it more and make sure I don't do it but have considered stags lefty upper reciever also. One advantage of being a lefty using a right hand AR is the fact that I can visually see a round being chambered when charging the rifle. One other drawback is an occasional hot casing in the crease of my elbow but my AR is pretty nice about flinging them away from me so it's not a big deal. I have already converted my selector switch to the opposite side which to me is better than the ambidextrious selector because my hand does not touch it at all when gripping the pistol grip. My advice is to get a strictly left hand selector switch because the ambidextrious switch still leaves a piece of useless metal hanging out in your grip area. Just my left handed opinion of course.
 
I'm a lefty as well, I have a Stag model 2tl and I love it. DPMS also makes a left hand AR in the 20" varmint rifle I do believe. Can't go wrong with the Stag though.
 
I built a Stag lefty M-4rgery for my boy, he likes it a lot better than the M-4 he has to shoot for his AF Security Forces job. He has an ambi charging handle and safety on the one I built him and really misses the ability to access the charging handle with his right hand, he's hoping they'll let him add one when he gets to his next duty station. I bought the upper and bolt from AR15.com and a DPMS barrel from Brownells. Funny thing about their upper is that the dustcover flips up instead of down, has to due to the bolt release location.


DPMS makes a lefty upper, or used to, they just mill out the left side of the upper that looks like their lo-pro upper. They left the brass deflector and ejection port pin-hinge on the right side. Kinda goofy looking.
 
Stag makes them and they are pretty nice. Whatever they offer for right hand models, they make a left hand one to go with it.

I have two Stag leftys and traded for a righty. I still prefer my lefty...
 
Stag and DPMS both make them. DPMS guns don't have dust covers because they use right hand bolt carriers. Stag flipped them upside down and builds lefthand bolt carriers. If you do some reading you'll find Stag requires an ambidextrous barrel extension if you plan on piecing a gun together. The lefty Stags with the left hand carriers rotate the bolt in the opposite direction so they need ambidextrous barrel extensions. If there is a factory built upper from Stag that you like, then that makes things easy. When I built my rifle I used a DPMS upper so I had more barrel choices, because there were no fully assembled uppers with the barrel contour and handguard options I wanted. All this may be confusing but if you do some research it may help clear things up.
 
Originally Posted By: OkdaveStag and DPMS both make them. DPMS guns don't have dust covers because they use right hand bolt carriers. Stag flipped them upside down and builds lefthand bolt carriers. If you do some reading you'll find Stag requires an ambidextrous barrel extension if you plan on piecing a gun together. The lefty Stags with the left hand carriers rotate the bolt in the opposite direction so they need ambidextrous barrel extensions. If there is a factory built upper from Stag that you like, then that makes things easy. When I built my rifle I used a DPMS upper so I had more barrel choices, because there were no fully assembled uppers with the barrel contour and handguard options I wanted. All this may be confusing but if you do some research it may help clear things up.

I was worried about this when I assembled the boys rifle. After reading about this, and doing a bunch of searching and looking at the barrel extension on the standard DPMS barrel I bought, I figured it looked close enough for government work and slapped it together. It hasn't missed a beat since. He's only put 4-500 rounds down it though.
 
I think the only difference in barrel extensions labeled ambidextrous is the lugs are chamfered on both sides to allow the bolt to rotate in from both directions. If a standard barrel extension has no burs it will probably work just fine.
 
I never really considered a left handed semi-auto. My AR throws the brass way out. If I die i want my wife to be able to easy sell some of my guns
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wesleyp - trust me - you buy a lefty AR and then move on your wife will have NO trouble selling it. go look for a used one on GB and such and get back to us on how many you find.
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I shoot lefty too but the right hand AR never bothers me. The only real advantage I see is it would kick the shells outside the truck if you were a road hunter.
 


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