What's everyone using for ammo these days?

[charlie cleveland]

way i look at it youve got 2 questions here... 1 are we shooting clays or trap with the parker... 2 nd are we hunting.... answer to first question we fire lots of shell at man made targets... lots of shells equal a blued shoulder and pain plus heavy pounding on equipment the gun...thats is if we are shooting heavier loads...now if we shoot lite loads that break the targets as well as heavy loads and dont bruise uor shoulders or dont be to rough on our guns then the natural choice is the liter loaded shells plus lite loads are chearer than heavy loads.... now for hunting loads..when a fellow goes into the field he wants shells that will hit and kill game as far as that gun can...yo take duck hunting or pheasant hunting i want a heavy load that will bring the game down...lite loads will kill birds but they got to be close and then your gonna get lots of cripples...you will have cripples with heavy loads but not near as many as with lite loads...when hunting its rare to have a lot of volume shooting... a fellow that shoots clays a lot in one year will shoot more in one year than a person who hunts game will shoot in a life time this is for the average hunter... this is my personal opinon i like lite loads for targets and heavy loads for game and fowl there is one exception that is dove hunting...the average fellow that hunts doves will shoot a hundred rounds of shells in the morning to get his limit of 15 birds and then go out and shoot close to that many in the evening to get the limit...now some of you are gonna smile or laugh at my figures here but this is the i base my figures on...ive been watching dove hunting all my life some will get a dove almost every shot fired but on a whole a hunter will average 3 to 5 doves for every box of 25 shells shot...only reason i dont use hihg brass shells on doves is cause it gives me a head ache and a bad sore shoulder from shooting so much..... charlie