Grew up in rural USA and got my first gun BBgun at 6years old and been shooting air rifles ever since. Never realy botherd me, only ever notice when i pick up a right specific gun. Still work the bolt etc with my right. Not the best shot in the world but had plenty of rabbits in my time and lost count of the rats.
Speaking of BB guns, don't seem to be many about in the uk, any reason for this? Probabally not as accurate as pellets but you could pour a tube of 200 bb's in to my old Daisy lever action and fire 2-3 per second untill they were all gone. Great fun as a kid, not so good for small