Thread: How useful is a pump 12 gauge for clay birds?

20inch you will want a tight choke and good ear protection.
With that short a barrel you will need to really push the barrel to get it to swing.
Of my two shotguns one is 28 (my Winchester pigeon grade) this has skeet barrels both open choked.
My SO4 Beretta has 30 inch barrels with multi chokes. Not that I change them I run improved and modified. Get very good range out of this won the high tower challenge the other day with a 60 yard shot.
So you will need to keep yourself close to the target 40 would be max with clay loads.
But as said above crack on. Practice is always good.

I’ve tried a few Pumps actions back when I was a kid. But never got on with them. Might have been to do with fit as my perfect setup is a lot of cast looks like the stock has been dent right over