104 Year Old Parker 16 Gauge SxS

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

If you have saved your old 2 1/2 inch Polywads, or if you purchase some RST's and save the empties, learning to reload those hulls would save you a ton of money. As for what's good for Skeet...I use 7/8 oz. of #9 shot. RST carries that load.

[stumpstalker]

As I only shoot casual, or “fun”, skeet, I use RST Ultra Lite, 2 ½ -inch; 3/4-ounce; 1100 velocity 16-gauge loads in the 0-frame and 1-frame VH guns I have.

So, in a session of 4 rounds, or 100 targets, neither the gun nor my old, once-injured, shoulder is subject to undue impact.

For deep woods bird hunting I move up to RST 7/8-ounce loads at 1125.

Reloading is its own hobby and may make economic sense, but I just don’t do it anymore.

The service from RST has been good, and if anything is amiss or is misunderstood, it gets straightened out to my satisfaction with personal telephonic or email communications.