I agree, Joe, that the capability is there. I just think it is over-rated. Many feel that the ability to select chokes at a sporting station, and change them for every presentation, is also a huge advantage. I don't. I may be in the minority on this, and probably am, but I'm in some pretty darn good company. Many top competitors believe, as do I, that using enough choke all the time to break anything they might throw at you is a better route. Nothing to think about but killing the bird.
I will agree that you might could practice with one gun hard enough, and long enough, with nothing in mind but switching triggers and selecting the "appropriate" one, you might get to the point that it becomes second nature. Like switching back and forth from single to double triggers. But, I contend it would take thousands of rounds of practice to get there, and to what end? If both the barrels had been choked as tight as the second one, you would have had a dead bird anyway.
I like tight chokes. I hardly ever shoot anything less than a modified, except for quail. I can give that going away bird another second to get away from my muzzles a bit, and give myself that extra second to get on him, a lot easier than I can figure which trigger to use.
My hats' off to you if you can do that instant selection thing, without ever getting it backwards. You are, then, a rare man, indeed. I truly admire the shooter that can do so, because he has devoted much time and effort into learning it.
But, there's a quandary here, if the instant choke selection thing is so important, why do all the double gun "experts" recommend a slightly heavier trigger pull on the rear trigger? If they are so convinced that the rear trigger may be chosen first just as often as the front, they should be recommending exactly EQUAL trigger pulls. They are pretty adamant about this heavier rear trigger thing, BECAUSE, they know in the back of their mind that 99% of the time the front trigger is gonna be pulled first anyway! There's a lot of people claiming to want that instant selection, but who's really using them that way?
SRH
