LEFT-HANDED:
Write
Eat
Scissors
Firearms
Tennis
Kick left footed
Hammer_Axe_Hatchet

RIGHT-HANDED:
Bat
Throw a ball
Hold/use a TV remote
Open cans unless it's with a P-38 or Swiss Army Knife

EITHER HAND:
Screwdriver but generally prefer right hand

IT'S A MYSTERY:
Why the heck are numbers on a tape measure upside down ?

Barely. I'm primarily right-handed. Can't write with my left, and my preference for tasks requiring fine dexterity is to use my right. I shoot better with my right, though I can make do with my left with a handgun or long gun if I have to.

But interestingly, after 15 years of having "keep your gun hand (right hand) free" hammered into my head from various trainers and supervisors, when simply picking up or holding/carrying something, I'll usually automatically default to my left hand out of habit.

So I hold my dog's leash in my left hand when walking him. I carry drinks, papers, bags, tools, and the like in my left hand. And my ex-wife used to laugh at me when, for example, I'd be carrying 3 or 4 grocery bags with my left hand, yet have my right hand empty.

Basically a committed left-hander. I write with my right hand because my older sister told me that wouldn't let me start school if I wrote with my left hand! (Older sisters can be such bitches. ). However, since the our world discriminates (right-handed scissors, right-handed measuring cups, guns, baseball positions, etc.) I find myself over the years just giving in. I tend to use my left hand when strength is required and my right hand when finesse is required.

You would think with society protecting most other minority group that left-handers would get a fair shake instead of a right-handed shake!

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Barely. I'm primarily right-handed. Can't write with my left, and my preference for tasks requiring fine dexterity is to use my right. I shoot better with my right, though I can make do with my left with a handgun or long gun if I have to.

But interestingly, after 15 years of having "keep your gun hand (right hand) free" hammered into my head from various trainers and supervisors, when simply picking up or holding/carrying something, I'll usually automatically default to my left hand out of habit.

So I hold my dog's leash in my left hand when walking him. I carry drinks, papers, bags, tools, and the like in my left hand. And my ex-wife used to laugh at me when, for example, I'd be carrying 3 or 4 grocery bags with my left hand, yet have my right hand empty.

I'm the same as you in terms of using the right hand for fine dexterity and using my left hand for "dead weights" as I term it.

I write with my left hand, and do everything else right handed.
Rod

I am right handed. Some things I can left handed.
I shoot a pistol left handed, but less than fair.
If I write left handed, I write backwards.

Not very. My dad said that I shoveled left-footed, though.

flashguy

Totally. Do everything left handed. Shoot, write......despite being beaten by the Nuns to write right handed. Regards 18DAI

I'm naturally Right Handed, but can do many things with my Left, including write (albeit more slowly).

I'm not sure where or when I picked up the habbit, but I also use my Left Hand for many things to keep the Right one free. Army, maybe? I don't recall, been doing it for ages.

I'm right handed.

When I was 14, I learned how to switch hit in baseball. I was more of a contact hitter left handed but eventually developed enough power to hit a homer. It wasn't a thing of beauty to gawk at like really connecting right handed, but it got the job done.

I injured my right (dominant) shoulder bad enough to need shoulder surgery when I was 16. I made a huge leap in ability to do stuff with my left hand.

My first job out of college, I was doing custom design engineering and had to do my own CAD work. Countless mouse clicks every day and I developed carpal tunnel. I taught myself how to use my left hand for CAD mouse work. I still use my left hand for mouse at work and right hand for mouse at home.

I shoot better with my right hand, throw orders of magnitude better with my right hand.

OH, I mentioned Firearms: Left Handed ... but I'm right eye dominate

LOL. I am righthanded and I am always using it left handed. Why because I write with my right hand!
If I am not mistaken they have left handed tape measures.
I also use a left handed circular saw with my right hand.

Lefty-

Write
Eat
Musical instruments
Scissors


Righty-

Guns
Sports


Both-

Tools

I write left handed, shoot left handed. I’m left eye dominate also (helps with shooting).

Completely.

I shoot a long gun left handed, left handed I can open a car door, work the turn signal, hold a nail, insert a magazine, and hold a steak knife. Otherwise my left hand is basically useless.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:
I write with my left hand, and do everything else right handed.
Rod

same

Right-handed but brush my teeth with left hand, computer mouse, and fork for steak ( I don't switch like proper folk) and drinking glass. I carry objects with left hand to leave my right hand free for obvious reasons.

I'm mostly ambidextrous but there are a few things I can only do with one hand.

I can't shoot a slingshot right handed with any accuracy. I can't open really tight jars with my right hand. I can't bowl with my left hand. I mostly use touch panels left handed.

Other than that it's about equal either hand. That runs in the family, so it's evidently genetic.

I am very left-handed. I sucked at playing baseball. I couldn't bat or catch.

I barely qualified with an M1 Garand in Navy Boot Camp.

While I was in Navy Advisor Training in 1969, I attended Marine Advanced Infantry Training at Camp Pendleton. I was shooting an older M-16 without a shell deflector left-handed. In full auto, I was getting a steady stream of brass to my forehead. I had my helmet pulled as low as possible.

The Marine instructor checked me for eye dominance. I am very right eye dominant. He had me switch to shooting right-handed and I qualified expert. I have carried and shot both handguns and long guns right-handed ever since.

Off-hand drills are a piece of cake for me. I shoot a handgun close range with either hand and both eyes open. For longer range target handgun shots, I close my left-eye.