From Your manual Dude
"due to precision machine tolerances
on your shotgun, some breaking-in
period may be required before your new gun
works perfectly with light target loads. If you
experience any initial functioning problems,
we recommended firing three or four boxes
of standard hunting loads to allow for this break in period'
Typical trap loads from Remington.
Index No. Gauge Shell Length Powder Dr. Eq. Velocity (fps) Oz. of Shot Shot Sizes
Gun Club™ Target Loads
DRAM FPS load
GC121 12 2 3/4" 2 3/4 1185 1 7½, 8
GC12L 12 2 3/4" 2 3/4 1145 1 1/8 7½, 8, 9
GC12 12 2 3/4" 3 1200 1 1/8 7½, 8
GC20 20 2 3/4" 2 1/2 1200 7/8 7½, 8, 9
Please notice most are 2.3/4 dram
Remington does not list dram for Hunting Loads.
Fiochii Hunting loads for 12 g are 3.1/4 to 3 3/4 at 1300 plus FPS
So No! target loads are not the same as Game loads.
What i have learned form Some good people on this site is the following:
1. Save your money
2. Buy a Benelli
3. Bring the gun home and throughly strip and clean it and use high quality Lube (militec is amazing)
4. Pump some heavy loads through it (100 rounds) Hard to do if you are impatient ant want to get to the range.
5. Enjoy a fine smooth functioning gun for a long time.
When I broke in all my benellis I shot the heaviest game loads I could fine usually 100 rounds cleane
Any reason you are using a field gun to shoot trap.?