6# seems like the perfect weight for me and I have a couple 12's, 16's and 20's in that range. The interesting thing is I shoot the same load out of all of them, 1 oz of # 5 or 6 shot for hunting.

Most of my skeet shooting is with my 12's and there it is 11/16 oz of 9's, the bar was in a loader I bought so I tried it and it breaks birds. For SC 7/8 oz of 8's.

For waterfowl my sxs's run a pound heavier but still 7/8 oz of ITX 6's or 1 oz of bismuth.

After the first shot the rest are just noise.