20 ga Feather lightning

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Honeybun0196

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I’ve been shooting a 12 gauge white lightning for a couple years and planning on getting a 20 shortly. I was planning on going with the regular white lightning but the weight of the feather sounds pretty nice. I’ve been kinda weary on the aluminum alloy on the feather not holding up like the regular full steel model. Has anyone ever heard or known of any problems with the feather’s or should they hold up to everything and last just as long. I’d guess I might shoot 6-10 flats of shells a year at the most, and majority of those being 1 1/4 oz 7 1/2’s with some 5 & 6’s. It definitely won’t be a safe queen or just a looker, it’s gonna get used and tossed around.
 
BrownDogsCan2 said:
What do you shoot so many heavy shells at?
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Probably out of habit or incase I go back to my benelli SBE2. I’ve never had any issues with my benelli cycling 1 oz loads but I’ve always just shot the 1 1/4 oz and figured the little extra pellets couldn’t hurt. I mostly shoot 7 1/2’s dog training, skeets and a little dove hunting mostly the 5’s and 6’s are if I’m shooting hunt tests or the once or twice a year we get to make a trip somewhere for wild birds. It’s probably more of a mind thing than anything else just hard to get out of old habits.
 
Speaking from experience, shooting 1 1/4 ounce out of a light 20 can hurt. But it will mostly be your shoulder and ability to not flinch that will be hurt if you are shooting high volume with those loads.

Shoot 7/8 ounce (or 3/4) for dog training or clays and you will be fine. Save the 1 1/4 for hunting.
 
Sorry about that guys Guess my comments are kinda confusing on how I worded it. That’s basically what I’ve always shot with the 12 gauge but not necessarily what I’m looking to shoot with the 20. I’ve never really looked into the 20 ga shells but would assume they’d be lighter loads in general. I’m not worried to much about recoil or shells yet. I figured I’d probably end up going with fiocchi golden pheasant 5’s for pheasant and decent 7 1/2’s for training and skeet. I was mostly just wondering on how the aluminum feather would hold up compared to the steel white lightning. I would assume the feather would hold up way longer than I ever will but just wanted to know if anyone had ever had any problems out of them.
 
I shoot the 16ga White Lightening and really enjoy it. I only shoot a 1oz load of #6 shot for pheasants. It does a great job on the birds.
 
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