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Here's a question that I don't think has ever been discussed before and was a topic of discussion at our club, yesterday. When you are shooting an over/under at skeet or other shooting events, and you have only one shot to take, do you put the shell in the top barrel or the lower barrel? Any reason why you do one or the other?
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depends on what choke is where for what shot.
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Also, for which barrel the gun is already set to shoot first if the gun is a single trigger gun. Typically it is the lower barrel as it puts the recoil forces down lower.
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Let's say both chokes are the same. And both barrels are cocked. Do you put it in the bottom for the reason skeettx says?
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It doesn't make any difference. Whatever feels good.
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mathematically the stresses on the gun are lower for shots fired in the bottom barrel but so what. the gun is designed and built to take several lifetimes of shots fired in the upper barrel. it's like putting a 1 ton load on a chain that's proofed for 5 tons. you're not hurting the gun at all. as to recoil i can't tell any difference. if you can you're spending too much time thinking about recoil and not enough thinking about the shot.
on pasture trap at least i've started alternating, shooting 5 shots in the right or lower bbl of a double then the next 5 in the left or upper and ignoring choke completely. after a few thousand rounds like that thru about a dozen guns i can say it hasn't made a bit of difference in targets busted or anything else.
don't waste time worrying about it. just shoot.
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Bottom,for strighter line of recoil
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I'd put mine in the right barrel. It's the more open one. Just kidding, of course. I know your question was about guns made for people whose eyes are set in their head like an 8. In that case, use the lower barrel for slightly better handling of the recoil, as several have said. That's why trapshooters like the "unsingle" design. As to wearing out the gun, I'm with Roger.
Don't know what RWTF said. He's on my YAITU list.
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i read his post and still don't know what he said. something about a robert palmer song.
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