Another point to consider is a small chip off a clay bird is a dead bird but in hunting live birds that will usually be a lost bird or a wounded one. You should always try and have enough pattern density to kill whatever bird you are after. To me at least you can't compare 12ga vs 410 average at skeet , you are shooting at a known target that is thrown at your call at a known speed and path and one that you have shot at many times. Real birds do none of that.
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