obtw,
It occurred to me that the essential element for a shotgun to feel good to me immediately, is for it to be valued as much as a house. smile
That seems to be some kind of universality.

I would not be surprised if there is a relationship between clay target % killed and game killed.

For me, until I was edging up on a certain % on the range, my field improvement lagged. The last 5% in clay target improvement probably added 20% to game harvest.

They are correlated, but not linearly.
Biggest correlation I believe is at very low skill, and then reappears at very high skill.

Out there doing it best I can.