Comments on: Experience: A Boer Volunteer's 'First Blood' http://www.historynet.com/redo-experience-a-oer-volunteers-first-blood.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Couvillon http://www.historynet.com/redo-experience-a-oer-volunteers-first-blood.htm#comment-804840 David Couvillon Fri, 25 May 2012 20:06:31 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685121#comment-804840 Is it just me, or are there an abnormal amount of left handed shooters in the Boer photo accompanying the article 'First Blood' (pg 20/21, Spring 2012 MHQ). Of the 12 identifiable men, 6 are definitely shooting left handed! 50% in an, assumed, random photo! Of the world population, it is estimated that only 8 to 20% of the world population is left handed (various Google references, here is but one http://dailyinfographic.com/left-handed-facts-and-statistics-infographic). Certainly a remarkable photograph just from that observation. (I had to first discern if the negative wasn't printed in reverse - an inspection of the rifles confirmed a correct reproduction). s/f Couv Is it just me, or are there an abnormal amount of left handed shooters in the Boer photo accompanying the article 'First Blood' (pg 20/21, Spring 2012 MHQ). Of the 12 identifiable men, 6 are definitely shooting left handed! 50% in an, assumed, random photo!

Of the world population, it is estimated that only 8 to 20% of the world population is left handed (various Google references, here is but one http://dailyinfographic.com/left-handed-facts-and-statistics-infographic). Certainly a remarkable photograph just from that observation.
(I had to first discern if the negative wasn't printed in reverse – an inspection of the rifles confirmed a correct reproduction).

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