To stir the pot a bit, my 12 ga. DH with 25"bbls was ordered from the factory right hand modified and left hand cylinder and was shipped weighing in at 6#, 8 oz. This hardly seems to fit my concept of a waterfowl gun although I'll admit that I am not a waterfowler.
Ordered and shipped in 1906 it predates skeet.
One poster on that gun's thread suggested that the gentleman ordering the gun followed his preference to pull the back trigger first and the forward second which makes some sense to me.
My other thought on this particular gun is that the right bbl modified choke/front trigger was for upland birds and the left bbl cly choke/rear trigger is for deer or large game load, making it a dual purpose game gun. Anyone else with a historic sense sportsmen's preferences a century ago think this is reasonable or likely?
Best,
Erick
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