I am not trying to sound like some big anthority on dove hunting, especially because I was the one who asked this question, but i don't have a that much of money to spend on shells. I use my 12 ga. 870 express and as far as dove hunting goes, just about all I use is the cheap stuff, Although i buy it from Gander Mountain. I don't know if walmart cheap stuff and Gander Mountain cheap stuff are the same thing. I thought that the BB's like # 6's might be to much, so I usually use 7 1/2's or sometimes 8's. I think that a guy should be able to shoot watever he wants to shoot but just because you shoot a certain thing dosen't mean that you can look down on others because they shoot something cheaper. Maybe Stalker wasn't even trying to do that, but the way it was written it seemed like he was saying that wal-mart loads were so beneath him.