Like Dean and Tom, for ruffed grouse I like smaller shot in the early season, especially in the right barrel, and 7 1/2s in the left. Later, I'll use 7 1/2s in both barrels. If I go after late January Iowa river bluff birds or Appalachian ruffs in February, I may slip a number 7 in the left barrel (and make sure it's copper plated). My go-to grouse 28s have open (right) and tight (left) chokes.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
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