rst makes wonderful light loads that are easy on old guns and old shooters...however, rst shells are not necessarily safe in all damascus or twist steel barreled guns...to be safe, shoot black powder only in guns with non fluid steel barrels...
and 28 gauge guns with 3/4 oz. or lighter loads may not be the best choice for quick kills on ruffed grouse...i hunted grouse mostly in ny and pa in the seventies, eighties and nineties...never used a gun smaller than 20 gauge...a twenty sometimes would knock a bird down but not kill it out right...a 16 was always a quick, sure grouse killer...and a 12 bore sometime tore up the bird so much, as to leave it inedible...guns of choice had little or no choke...ammo of choice was factory winchester, remington and federal field loads...one ounce of 7 1/2 or 6's out of an opened choke 16 bore worked best for me...
Last edited by ed good; 08/16/20 12:16 AM.
