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Simple answer to the original post is Yes its the way its always been done .
I doubt if any one can say why .I agree it dose seem a little odd but thats the gun trade for you . A little odd !

No, jOe, I'm talking about guns that were built for a right-handed man, with the triggers obviously so, and having the right barrel with the tighter choke than the left. When you see cast off in a stock, there's a very high likelihood it was built for a righty. Not many lefties want a gun with cast off (which would be "cast on" for them).

SRH

A former co-worker of mine had a little 20 gauge Ithaca Flues "Bird" gun. It had been ordered special from Ithaca by his left-handed uncle. They neither reversed the trigger placements nor the choking, but simply "Twisted" the trigger faces to the left in this instance. If you will note on most doubles the triggers have a slight twist to the right, this one had it to the left.

Lots of American sxs guns that were built as the standard 28" M & F have been modified to open the left barrel to IC to turn a duck gun into bird gun. You can do what Stan suggests and shoot the far bird first with the tighter barrel or you can pull the rear trigger first on a covey rise with a little practice...Geo

Every Wednesday after our black powder skeet shoot we sat around and talked SxSs with Ed Mason and Charlie Lindsey holding court..I recall when I first got interested in hammer guns I studied every aspect of them. One day I remarked that it was great how they had designed the double triggers...(remember I'm left handed) we were looking at a gun...with gun in hand I showed them how after shooting the front trigger my finger just swepted back to the rear trigger for the next shot.

With that I was told how wrong I was and that I was shooting a right handed gun...the back trigger is always hidden to keep your finger from hitting the back upon recoil.

A short time later I was shooting at the 5 stand with another guy...no gloves or barrel guard the barrels had gotten too hot to hold.

Then it happened a couple of times...a double fire. My buddy said you better get Ed to look at that gun...I replied no the gun is fine I just had a shooting lesson.

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

Well, Joe- if you follow MLB in the 1930's era-- Dizzy Dean was the commentator for a Cards game, talking about a promising rookie pitcher who was able to pitch equally well with either "paw"--

"This kid can pitch with either hand OK- guess he's an amphibian"..

Indeed, Olde Chap-- and how about one of the "proofs" of that enlightened era-- that being that all witches had 3 nipples?? Fancy that, ey wot??? Foxy

Fox you might need to get your medication checked...

There are all kind of things you can speculate about and do...but 99% or better of double trigger guns you'll see are for right hand shooters...by design.