Single selectable trigger

[Hoss]

on another thread I saw a guy who liked being able to select which barrel to shoot first. I could understand it with a choked shotgun shooting birds, but I see no real reason to shoot one or the other in our game. 
 

What barrel do you shoot first, and why?

 

when I first got my SKB it still had the inertial trigger,  so I shot right barrel first so I could easily push the button if I had too. Now that it’s mechanical (thanks Fast Eddie!) I dont think it really matters. 

[Matthew Duncan]

Left barrel is first.  I started shooting with a finger on both triggers, one finger usually would get pinched hard.  To break my habit I went with index finger on the rear trigger ( left barrel) BOOM!  Then move finger to right trigger.

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

My SKB’s were inertial and switchable  when I first got them. Johnny Meadows converted them to mechanical and they are now set to fire right barrel first. Since I never felt the need to pick which barrel went off first in the original configuration I haven’t worried about it now that they are mechanical either. 
Regards

    
Gateway Kid

[High Spade Mikey Wilson]

I have a Stoeger SxS with double triggers, and both barrels have IC chokes. I can honestly tell you that I have no idea which barrel I shoot first. Which ever one it is is by pure muscle memory in my case.

[Ozark Huckleberry]

I think on a SXS it really doesn't matter which goes first unless you get a squib.

[Old Man Graybeard]

Right barrel first on all of my doubles

[Chief Rick]

Not a lot of flying clays anymore but we have a stage that has a thrower and the bird flies right to left.  Could make a difference to a shooter in that situation.  I shoot right barrel first.

[Eyesa Horg]

I shoot left first. A Stoeger on which I reversed the triggers. Finger then slides right back onto the right trigger. Both barrels chocked IC.

[Totes Magoats]

On my SKB's it's right barrel first.  In case I fumble a shell and only end up with one in my hand as I load, I know to put it in the right.  It's also the barrel I focus on while loading.

 

Not sure I could find the barrel selector efficiently on the clock. 

 

Totes

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

The only time "which barrel first" would matter is in Live Bird shooting or an actual Clay Bird game when the barrels have different chokes.  If yer gun is a coach gun with cylinder bores, "which barrel first" is meaningless.  Same same if the barrels are choked IC/IC.  Just doesn't make a difference with Coach Guns.

[Chuckwagon McTaggart]

I am shooting an uncut SKB with 26" barrels.  The right barrel is Improved cyl, and the left barrel is modified.  My gun still has the original inertial trigger, which on occasion has failed to reset to the other barrel if I don't firmly seat the stock to my shoulder when shooting light loads.  I normally keep the  selector pushed to the right so that if the trigger doesn't switch to the left barrel after the first shot, I can quickly push the selector to the left with my trigger finger and shoot the second barrel.

   There has only been one instance where I have opted to have the left/tighter choked barrel shoot first.  The first target was a falling plate that activated a thrower that popped a clay pigeon straight up in the air.  At the target distance of approx. 10 yards, it probably didn't make a significant difference, but why not give yourself an advantage if available? 

[Tex Wilson]

I'm the one who said I liked the selectable trigger on my CZ.

I selected the left barrel to shoot first for reasons only known to me