i will add one more thought to all this and yes i understand everyone has their own idea or preference on what they think works best. i remodeled our house a bit this past fall and replaced all the doors. i took the old ones out to my buddies place where i hunt as we will use them in a bond fire one night. well i patterned a couple different loads at about 40 yrds and besides the size of the pattern the other interesting item was the penetration of various types of shells. i can say will absolute faith that the #6 heavi shot penetrated better than the #5 copper loads did. just a thought.
That isn't a big secret.
In fact, a big draw of the hevi shot #7 is the fact that it penetrates like #5 lead, but gives a bunch more pellets in the same loading
