Originally Posted By: craigd
I would suspect that if 16's were as common as 12's, they would be as desirable as 12's. I'd think all the clay target games, not just skeet, influence gauge popularity. Not necessarily gun up, but trap always seemed to me like better prep for the uplands than skeet, though variations like SC probably works out as intended.


To be in realm of possibility we would need fleet of dedicated (proper proportion and weight) 16ga guns plus readily available wide variety of loads like "reduced recoil", non-tox, spreader loads,..... That is less likely than working man being better off economically in four or eight years than they're today.