I know and 85yr old lady up here who shot the choke out of the nicest Ithaca 37 I have ever seen and had some kind of screw in choke installed and is still shooting the gun. This lady has shot a LOT of ducks. Whenever she comes to camp with us I get the job of hunting with her to make sure she's ok and I can tell you that it's an honor and that there's no place I'd rather be; no one in camp has the nerve to suggest that they take that job from me. What a trooper she is. She flew her Super Cub and C-185 all over Alaska, mostly for hunting, until she was 75 and my hunting partner and neighbor now has the Cub. She was a physician and after she retired at 75 she spent TEN YEARS working at and on developing medical clinics in the Aleutians and then wrote a book on her experiences at it. Her motivation and work ethic could embarrass the stoutest of all of us.
As for the original subject here, I could be wrong here but bet that if one were to reload shells with a double layer of shot wrap or a layer of wrap inside a cup, no type of hard non-tox shot, be it steel or the iron Hevi-shot, could hurt a Parker. I've only shot KTM, bismuth and Classic Doubles out of mine and give KTM the clear nod for being the best of the three.
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