Square Loads = Better Performance?

[Bruce Day]

Average skeet target scores decrease with decreasing bore diameter using standard loads. While my favorite gauge is the 16 it is an unsupported myth that there is something magical or unforeseen about the performance or the 16, 28 or any other gauge. It’s just more sporting magazine writer talk.

The subgauges may pattern good enough but they do not pattern as well or with the same density as a 12. The lesser carrying weight and lower moment of inertia of a subgauge gun may for many outweigh the small disadvantage of lesser pattern density. It does for me.