Thread: 20/12

Lighter loads? Don't know really, just seems to be in my experience

Originally Posted by Wildman

Lighter loads? Don't know really, just seems to be in my experience

Loads lighter, hum. are you sure? guns are often lighter which ,,,,,
also
seems to me that there is a stringing pattern with the 20, no personal expertise, just What I'm reading.

Was always looked at as being a beginers gun mainly because of the low recoil

Originally Posted by jakewire

Loads lighter, hum. are you sure? guns are often lighter which ,,,,,
also
seems to me that there is a stringing pattern with the 20, no personal expertise, just What I'm reading.

Don't worry about stringing, its pretty much not a problem, unless you are using a very small gauge and a very heavy charge.
Have a read about square loads, this is what, the fore fathers figured out, before magnumits screwed shotgun loads up,
Basically a square load, is a charge that as deep as it is wide, this is normally, were you get the most consistent, even patterns,
so in a 10ga 11/2, 12ga 1, 1/8-1 1/4, 16ga 1oz, 20ga 7/8 oz, 3/4 in a 28ga,
Generally if you need a magnum shell, or think you do, really you properly need, more time on the trap and skeet field, or a bigger gauge.