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To clarify my earlier post. I do use RST 10 shot spreader loads in the right barrel early in the season and 8's in either standard or spreader in the left depending on the gun and choke of the left barrel. If I'm in one of our known woodcock haunts I will run 10 spreaders in both barrels. 90% of the woodcock shots are at 12-15 yards or less on the first shot and 20 yards max on the second. These #10 spreaders are absolutly the ticket for me at those ranges on woodcock or a grouse if I get the opportunity. As the leaves fall and the hunting becomes more of a grouse game with the odd chance at a woodcock, I switch to spreader #8's in the right and 7 1/2 or 7's in the left. That said depending on the info we get on the testing of 10 shot, I may look closer at a combination of 9's and 8's in the later season. Even later in the year when I think I have pulled off a longer shot on grouse, I bet I could count on one hand the number of times It took me more than 35 paces to get to where the bird fell. These birds are pretty easy to bring down, nothing like the wild pheasants I use to hunt out in Iowa. For those birds hunting with flushing dogs, I used nothing less than 6's and typically used a combination of 5's and 4's