My thoughts were to practice with the gun I hunt with...
It seems like you guys are enablers to make me buy more shotguns than my wife thinks I need ;-)
If you want to practice for grouse hunting, IMHO the clay games of skeet, SC and 5-stand have much more realistic grouse shot simulations, at least in my neck of the woods. You really need tighter chokes for trap for another thing.
And its a 24HRCF tradition to encourage guys to buy as many guns as they can possibly get away with!!