To follow up, the less shot used the easier it is to keep pressures down. I know if you're loading for hunting loads that's a bit more difficult, but target loads it's quite easy. After not shooting clays for 30 years I started again in 2005 with a modern 12ga with 26" barrels. My old 1 1/8oz loads were kicking the crap out of me so I went to 1oz loads, then 7/8, and now 3/4 and have never noticed a difference in scores. Claybusters makes wads for all the mentioned loads and cheaper than factory wads. They also have low pressure loads with many powders. I've used 700X, Promo, American Select, Red Dot, Green Dot, Unique, and a couple of others. A couple of examples are with a Remington shell, mild primer, American Select, and CB wads are :7/8oz, 20.5grs, CB1100 = 6900fps/1310psi
18.9grs, CB4100 = 5200/1200
1oz 19.5 CB1100 = 7500/1200
Promo or Red Dot [ both the same ] 7/8oz 17.7grs CB1100 = 7100/1200
700X 1oz 15.5grs CB2100 = 5700/1100
16.5 2100 = 6400/1150
17.5 2100 = 7000/1200
3/4 oz has many more. Mild primers are anything except Fed209A and CCI209M
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