If you hang around dove shooters, you'll hear stories about killing 12 doves with 16 shots. I've shot lots of doves with lots of good shooters, and I can tell you that 12 birds/box is mighty fine shooting which few can do.
One bird/4 shells isn't all that bad. Many can't do that well.
If someone claims 12 birds with 15-20 shots, either he's fibbing or he's shooting them off wires.
Thankyou for the pick me up on the shooting!! My only defence is i was shootong a newer gun&that for some reason birds that are slowing down (which these where) about to land in a roost tree are hard shots for me. i want to slow my gun down,a hard crosser is easier in fact many birds were shot w/second barrel of my sxs as they started to go faster. Well in any event that is why its fun!! keep shootings boys!!!!