It's a bit of a hassle but one of my hunting buds used to bring two guns into the blind. A goose gun and a duck gun. No fumbling to change shells when geese are approaching. I agree with saodma on pellet speed and energy. It depends on where the pellets impact the bird but if the pattern density is such that you hit a duck or goose with 5 pellets instead of 2, it makes a big difference. Also do the math on lead requirements and you'll see that you need to lead a goose a couple of feet more on long passing shots with slow pellet speed loads. That is not even considering the difference in the energy of a BB pellet versus a #2 pellet but that's a whole different discussion. Let them get close and it doesn't matter so much.
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