I have loaded thousands of shotshells in my registered skeet shooting days days. I still load about 10,000 20 ga shells on my MEC Size Master single stage loader. My load data come directly from the Hogden book for 12 gauge.
Rem STS hulls are the abolute best hulls to reload. The claybuster pink (1oz), RXP wads and the Duster wads are great as well.
IMHO, you should load a 1oz shell at 1200 fps using #8 magnum shot. It will be light recoiling, and plenty fast out the the 27 yard line.
For powder Hogden Clays is hard to beat. Very clean burning. Go to trapshooters.com and ask about anthing trap related and you will get tons of good info. Welcome to the addiction of clay target shooting!
