"KY Jon you were describing Joe Wood's shooting, not mine."
Well if you watch a dog scratch at a flea long enough you will get an itch yourself. Teaching is a dangerous profession and the risk is the teacher and student becoming one and neither if them being able to hit the side of a barn when done. Just be careful is all that I am saying.
I still think you should go back to a single pellet in each shell and increase one pellet per shot until the problem returns. I know a shooter of your ability can kill close birds with just the wads but sometimes they, the wads, fly funny. So just start with the wad and a single pellet. Who knows you might get up to five or six pellets before the second bird falls. Then you know the simple answer is to reduce back the the safe number of pellets. Better for the environment as well. Not so much wasted lead falling all over the place like when Joe fills the sky in hopes of some freak of nature hit on a out of luck bird.
