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[charlie cleveland]

kensal i will have to admit i have never took live game with the steel shot...but all i load is bb size steel and it patterns and has very good penertation at up to 70 yards..all this testing has been done on paper or 5 gallon plastic buckets..it does kill crows i forgot i ve took a few of them with bb s... i have shot a lot of steel bb s thru 3 differant 8 ga guns and one old american arms double barrel 12 ga it has regular steel barrels with modified chokes. i ve seen no harm to the barrels on any of these guns...my guns are just barely safe to shoot most people would hang them on the wall...but this is my opinion that large steel shot such as bb size andif shot thru at least modified choke that it has done no damage to my gun barrels...if my guns were very nice or if they were full choke i would not fire steel shot in my guns...i would be shooting lead bb s if i could get them reasonable but i cannot ... i have had 2 bad issues with barrels in my life both were steel barreled gun..one was a 28 ga rem. auto. barrel blowed outabout middle ways then had a 20 ga single barrel i was shooting slugs and iut was full choke and the barrel bulged at the end.. i think no matter the steel type or shot used be it steel lead or other shot that from time to time there will be barrel failures from some source...the next gun i try useing the steel shot in may harm the barrels but so far i ve seen no evedince of it... charlie