Stoeger Outback O/U- question about single trigger

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I'm thinking about buying a Condor Outback O/U 20GA for two reasons - I'd like a 20GA for hunting upland birds and other small game, and I'd like a 20GA shotgun to ease my wife into shooting without starting her on my Benelli 12GA.

I like the fact that the Outback comes with both the IC and Mod chokes - the bottom barrel fires first with the wider/closer-range IC choke, and then upper barrel goes second with the tighter Mod choke (if you miss with the bottom shot, you have a chance at the tighter top shot as the bird is flying away).

So heres my question - if you take down your game with your first shot (the bottom barrel), is there any way you can "reset" the inertia trigger so that your second shot doesn't go with the top barrel? Is there any indication on the Outback which barrel will fire? I've heard that you can change which barrel the trigger will fire by "bumping" the stock with your hand...how do you be sure?

EDIT - does opening the action reset the trigger so the bottom barrel fires next?

Any help (or even a link to the user guide which I can't seem to find using Google) much appreciated.

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

a) Food for thought......you may also wish to look at something with a 26 inch bbl for Upland if you haven't fully made up your mind on that Outback

b) The only way to reset the Outback would be via opening and closing the breech. As a rule, the single trigger design on the Outback will always fire the bottom bbl (also generally considered as the more open choked bbl). You could always get an additional IC choke tube for that top bbl should you wish to keep both bbls open.....

c) True. Opening the action will reset the trigger mechanism to default to the bottom bbl first.

 

[guess_kto]

Open and replace the shell with a new one. This would reset the gun back into bottom first.

On a personal note, I'm annoyed with automatic safety. Is there any way to modify it to manual only. I don't want to remove it, just want to chose when I want to engage it, e.g. I don't want "automatic" when I duck hunting and timing is important.