And stop mutilating those lovely old guns with choke alterations and forcing cone bullshit promoted by work-starved gunsmiths! Buy or make scatter loads! Easier to do than meddling with chokes and forcing cones. What's next? Porting? Chopperlump
If you're going to do much close range shooting (skeet; grouse and woodcock; for that matter, pretty much any upland game over good dogs) there are a lot of good reasons for "choke alterations". Vintage guns, more often than not, came pretty tightly choked from the factory. And since many of them didn't carry any choke markings to start with, who's to know if they've been altered, assuming the barrel smith does a good job? Spreader loads are fine, if you want to retain tighter chokes for other purposes and aren't doing much close range shooting. But especially with a modern, 2 3/4" chambered gun, shells are WAY cheaper if you don't have to buy spreaders. Of course you can reload using some of the Polywad discs, although reloading for the 16 is not as user-friendly as it is with the 12, 20, or even 28. Shoot some patterns; open 'em however you want 'em, and buy off the shelf ammo to save money.
