Bolt Action Survey

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Hello everybody, I am an engineering student currently working on a project involving bolt action rifles. One of the requirements for determining the validity of my problem is through surveys. I need to determine whether I can pursue this problem and potentially market a valid solution. This survey is pretty short, and it runs on google forms, so it should be relatively simple to use. Thanks everybody.
http://goo.gl/forms/1HhcK6HXmx
 
I took it.

I don't know about flawed, more often it is the conclusions derived from survey results that are flawed, than the surveys themselves, but either is possible.

Was asked right or left handed...so if you are just looking for left handed answers, there is your filter.

I have used both right and left handed bolt actions, but I doubt the majority of right handed people have. 40 some years ago, left handed wife got a left handed bolt action. I used it a bit. Turned out not to be a good rifle for her, and she sold it. Have not used a left handed bolt action since. Answered "both" on the survey because its the truth.

Don't own any left handed bolt guns. Haven't for 40+ years. Have no plans to buy anything to work a right handed rifle from the left side. Never even considered such a thing until I saw the survey question.

Most people, when faced with a bolt action they cannot easily operate (left handed shooter, right handed bolt being the most common), simply choose to use a different kind of rifle action, one more "neutral" such as a pump, lever, semi auto, or single shot, rather than looking into a device to allow the lefty to easily work the right handed bolt.

I do not understand the purpose of the "was it difficult to chamber the first round" question. No person, right or left handed, of normal physical ability, who received proper instruction on the rifle, should have any difficulty at all, provided there is nothing mechanically wrong with the rifle or ammo.
 
Trying to develop a device to manipulate a right-handed bolt from the left side would be a total waste of your time and resources. Not to mention completely unnecessary. Anybody who wants a left handed bolt action just buys one. Nobody will buy your device.
"...difficult to chamber the first round..." That has nothing whatever to do with handedness.
A left handed shooter using a right handed bolt has no operating issues. This whole world is preferentially right handed.
 
As a lefty shooter I own a majority of right handed bolt guns. I own one left handed action rifle.

I even own some right handed bolts with left handed stocks.

I have had ZERO trouble shooting any configuration of a bolt gun on my left side. I applaud you for thinking outside the box but is simply giving a solution for which there isn't a problem for. Sincerely a Lefty shooter
 
Catch a kid early enough and you can teach 'em to be Ambidextrous.
Writing with either hand can be learned with time & effort...
some folks have to learn it due to broken arm/wrist...

Basically, do everything with either hand, might save a life one day ;)
Also makes hay with "Weak Hand Shooting Drills" during matches...lol
Heck, I can even bat righty or lefty!!
 
Thanks for all the responses guys, I would also like to thank you for the valid points you all brought up. I suppose my view was to narrow and I didn't consider all of the different solutions that have already been created. Thanks again.
 
40 years ago there was a communcations proffesor at the Univ of Wash Keith R. Stamm [He has a book out on flyfishing] that worked with a publication called "Public Opinion Quarterly"
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/

He told stories of taking surveys where the worst thing that could happen would be to have people respond.
He was bent that surveys must be designed with a long list of constraints in order to test for something.

I have spent much of my life in labs, waving my arms and talking to others, trying to keep a one time test from being out of control.
..Always measure the air temperature...
 
Southpaw here

Took it. A left hand adapter for a right handed bolt? I hope you consider that modern Americans like optics and that such a device could intefer with optical sights.

BTW, I've learned to reach over with the left pink to operate the right handed bolt.
 
I say don't be too hard on an engineering student working on a project.

Going through school is all about getting the common mistakes out of the way in an academic setting so you can make new and interesting mistakes once you are out in the wild :D

There are entire courses around nothing but survey design, how to accurately measure what you really want to measure through surveys. And despite that we still have peer reviewed journals publishing the results of flawed surveys because even the "experts" have a hard time with it.

I remember one of my engineering professors telling about having to design a machine that had X number of components to ultimately bend a piece of wire or something equally trivial. The point of the exercise wasn't to make a machine that would put a bend in a piece of wire, it was to create an engineer who accounted for all the tolerance stacking and forces needed at each axle, gear, or lever.

Sometimes I really wish I'd stuck with engineering instead of switching to chemistry.

Jimro
 
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