Sporting shooter I can only say it as I see it and I will fire many thousand cartridges a year at quarry from Snipe to geese ....the past 3 seasons I have shot driven pheasants and partridge ....100,200-300 bird days sometimes 4 times a week and if some one turned up at my shoot with 28gr 7 1/2 s I would ask them to use a more suitable round ...if you were shooting birds of any height and quality you would surely be priking a load of stuff .