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Old December 19, 2001, 08:51 PM   #2
Jim Watson
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Join Date: October 25, 2001
Location: Alabama
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Man alive, in its day (before autos and O/Us took over) the M12 was the most popular trap and skeet (and hunting, and riot) shotgun on the market.

I do not know the cleaning requirements for M12, being a Remington shooter, but I'm sure somebody will help.

Look at the choke mark on the left rear of your barrel. Full or modified either one will do for trap. You can break them with Imp Cyl, but you have to be quick. Skeet is an open choke game, Imp Cyl, Skeet or straight cylinder.

You can reload good trap loads with hard shot, good wads, and long-lasting hulls (Win AA, Rem STS, Fed Gold Medal) for about half of retail. The savings over discount house stuff is much less, you can't duplicate their low cost, high volume components and large sales volume. If you take up trap as a regular thing you will end up reloading, but it probably would not make a lot of difference unless you get hooked and shoot a LOT.

Look for shells with 1 ounce of shot, or maybe something like the Federal Multi-Purpose with 1 1/8 oz shot, 3 dram equivalent of powder. More is not allowed for trap or skeet. The cheap-o 7/8 oz loads are not much good. GOOD 7/8 oz loads will break targets but you are not getting them at MartMart.
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