My Dad didn't know much about a shotgun but always relayed to me that his Dad always referred with reverence to his E Grade Lefever pigeon gun as having "soft barrels". When I received the gun from my uncle about 1958, my Dad never said anything about not firing it with modern shells, only that I should be careful with it in the field, lest I dent the soft barrels. My Grandfather apparently owned many guns, but shot the Lefever almost exclusively until his death in 1929.
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