I can still shoot after a hard night with or with out horizontal eyes:corn: I remember a particular day at the U.P. shoot:whistle:

Yeah but you gotta shoot light loads or your ol' noggin takes a pounding :rotf:

Shot with one of my LC Smith 12 Field Grades today, so did not need RST shells. It reminded me how much easier RST shells are compared to regular shot.

My dad loads 20 gauge shells with 28 gauge loads and puts a Cheerio on top of the shot. It hardly kicks at all :rotf: there's only 50 less feet per second.

I load 3/4oz. (28ga load) in my 20ga loads now using the new Claybuster 3/4oz wad and 20/28 Alliant powder. A real winner.

Great target loads, we load 'em in No. 8s or 9s

All I load is 3/4oz in the 12ga. It might give too tight a pattern. We shot a round of clays Sunday and 4 out of the 5 guns on my squad were SxS's. Three were Parker lifters. Dave was shooting a Parker lifter 10 [with 10/12 Gaugemates] he just bought at Bachelders and the firing pin broke. Luckly I had an extra I made up at home. That and some Coke can shim made it tight again. He'll get it redone at Bachelders soon as Brad finishes up with a couple he has over there. At my club half or more shoot SxS's.

paul them 3/4 ounce 12 ga are doing a fine job on doves when i see one to shoot at.. and they are knocking down birds at unreal ranges 45 to 55 steps... charlie

I've read that the 3/4oz load will tighten up patterns too much at skeet ranges [ 20 yds]. There's less deformation of the last shot in the shot column so more stays round and in the pattern. We seem to break clays nice out to 35/40 yds with skeet chokes.

It seems to be more consistent, not necessarily tighter