Mike: 16s are the best compromise of all and I'm a giant fan. The "Queen of the Uplands" title is apt, but... the real challenge of 16s these days is ammo. I wish that wasn't true but it has become their "Achilles' heel" anymore. That applies to the 2-inch 12s as well (I think I'd love having one, but the really good ones [w/28 tubes] are too-expensive and too-hard to feed). It's a shame this took me so-long to figure out but I guess I had to try out the extremes on both ends to figure out where the "middle" (the optimum?) really was.