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Most doubles I own or see if choked differently are more open in the right barrel than in the left. However, I have a few guns where the left barrel is more open than the right and these barrels have not been honed or altered. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Here is how I see this. I've shot incoming doves by the thousands, so I understand the principle of taking the first bird farther out, then taking the second one closer to you, but still incoming.

What I do not understand is all the people who will argue the value of instant selection of choke with two triggers, then explain a gun built with a tighter choked right barrel and a more open choked left one, by saying that driven shooters want to shoot the tighter choked barrel first. If they do, as I often do, then JUST USE THE REAR TRIGGER FIRST !!!!

I have accomplished this act of shooting the rear trigger/left bbl. first, then immediately shifting to the front trigger/right bbl. to use the more open choke. Sporting clays is a perfect venue to practice this. It's actually easy.

These armchair experts need to realize they are talking like hypocrites. Not referring to anyone who has posted in this thread.

In-comming driven birds, First bird is farther away and second bird is closer

Mike

Skeet In / Skeet out
Left barrel Skeet incomer / right barrel Skeet outgoer.
Slightly less choke for the incomer / slightly more choke for the outgoer.

Yup, Bob. That's the way it was done in the early days of skeet, before the Bob Stacks of the game learned that shooting the outgoers before the stake was the only way they were going to shoot 100 straight. At that point, they realized that both birds should be shot at less than 20 yards and a real open choke was correct for both birds.