Rocketman,
Your question is a loaded one, open for interpretation;-) Hahaha!
I could say 1oz. in a 16ga., but what does that really mean?!!
In Brister's case, I think it meant that he shot good scores or bags with them [3/4oz in 28ga. & 1&1/4oz. flyer loads in 12ga.] and satisfied his own curiosity about their performance, on paper. He was, in fact, incessently curious. I say that not as any refute to anything; rather in recognition that he was a very fine shot and perhaps the best shooting and most all 'round inquisitive sporting writer here of his time. I shot with/against him a number of times at a long defunct place known as Hawkeye in the Piney Woods near the Louisiana border years ago. He did a lot of interesting things in his day; aside from hanging with some of the best shots and constantly experimenting, he introduced collum bare & Sporting Clays shooting to the US. Several of the people who attended that first hand thrown shoot are still with us. I was not one of them. Brister won it.
As an aside, he was a really fun & funny person to be around & really good outdoor newspaper sports writing died w/him down here as far as I'm concerned.
Note: 1&1/4oz. was the std. pigeon load ... for the 10ga.!!!! back when.
