Right on the money.. The late John Olin had his M21's custom set-up for left barrel first- but he was right handed-- At least that's what I believe I had read about him and his gunning "preferences".. All my side-by-side shotguns have the right barrel more open than the left-- except my Smith LONGRANGE-- both are full choked, so I guess it really doesn't make a great deal of difference with that set-up.

I agree 100% with Stan here, even though we don't have dove seasons in MI--shooting barn pigeons and crows over field decoys, you often get incomers, so using the tighter choked left hand barrel first is often a good call, especially on multiple incomers, ditto on ducks if you use a double. As steel shot is now the law of the land, I use Model 12's- 12 gauge full choked for waterfowling nowadays. RWTF


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..