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If you drop below a 12 the only real choice for waterfowl would be a 20. I don't even know if you can get non-toxic shells for the 16 and the 28. I used to love a 16 ga Belgian made A-5 for upland game but shells got hard to find and it turned into a safe queen. I sold it off.
I could load steel shot into 16 shells if I really had to, the question is does it have much less recoil than a 12 or much more recoil than a 20 that would justify buying it over a 20?