Thanks for all of the advise. I have to be honest, my son and I shot a local course this weekend. We are novice, at best with shotguns. We rabbit and turkey hunt with them and that's two ends of the spectrum. A good friend also went with us and we just went to have a good time and that, we did. Of course my son (15) wanted to keep score, so we did. We shot from the easier stands at each location. We both used 1 1/8oz #8 and IC chokes, I took other chokes but never changed mainly because I didn't know if I would be changing for better or worse!
He hit 52 and I hit 54 out of 100 and honestly felt pretty good with that (you can stop laughing now!) They warned us that it was addictive and I can see that, when we finished my son wanted to shoot another 50!