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Getting a new side-by-side with double triggers and screw-in tubes. So, I assume the front trigger will fire the more open barrel. So then, which barrel will it be, Right or left?

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Since your gun will have screw-in chokes, the more open barrel will be the one you put the more open choke in. Most SxS shotguns are made so that the right barrel is fired by the front trigger and the left by the rear trigger. Most American guns with fixed chokes are set up with the more open choke in the right barrel.

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You have the option to setup your shotgun as you please. If I had the ability to switch chokes there would be certain types of game bird hunting where I would put the same choke in each barrel.


You have it made compared to this:

I acquired a very old Lefaucheux side by side 20 gauge with dual triggers from my friend's estate. I had to do some digging:

According to my research, most SxS's are set up w/ the more open barrel on the right (front trigger) and the tighter barrel on the left , and controlled by the back trigger. In walk up hunting most birds fly AWAY--and thus open barrel 1st followed by tighter barrel.

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Most sxs are set up with the open barrel on the right which is the front or right trigger.

I have two sxs's set up the opposite, one a Lefever skeet gun that was built for a smaller stature person with small hands. When skeet was originally introduced it was shot load one shoot the first bird, load again and shoot the second bird, so a person with small hands could shoot 21 birds with the rear/closest trigger only having to reach for the second trigger on four stations, the shotgun was choked SK-I and SK-II with small ivory mid bed and larger ivory front bead. By the way it works quite well as I made it to the top ten in an International Skeet shoot with it after my 24gram 12ga loads didn't arrive and I was allowed to use 7/8 oz 20ga loads in my wife's gun, the Lefever.

My second one is a Darne that is choked tight right, open left and it was suggested it might have been for driven birds or much like the Lefever it was set up for a smaller stature person as the LOP is quite short. It is choked IC and IM.

Last edited by erich; 07/20/22.

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