RE: upland loads
For me personally depends if it is early season with a pointing dog or a flushing dog. Early season with a pointing dog on pheasants I use 6 shots, but if it is a flushing dog I use 6 high brass to a 5. Then later in the season I go to strickly 4 shot lead or steel. But if it is on quail I just use 6 in low brass on first shot then high brass on second shot all season. And that is pretty much the same on both guns. I personally shot a SxS 12 and a SxS 20, and on rare ocassion I like to try my luck with the SxS 410 but I usually don't do well with that gun.