Steel Shot
Charlie, I am a new member who hasn't a lot of experience with steel shot but do have an idea. Whether it is correct or not I can't say. In my opinion since steel does not compress as lead does it will eventually, with continued firing, wear out the chokes of a fine gun. That is unless the gun is made of somewhat harder steel such as my Merkel 20 gauge. As an aside I remember when I was 14 years old and my parents bought my twin brother and I, each of us, a Winchester Model 37 20 gauge shotgun. They were and are fine guns. I decided one day to try my own brand of reloading and loaded up some ball bearings into a shell from which I had removed the lead shot. Upon firing the gun at a target there was increased recoil but not a lot of hits on the target. When my brother and I looked down the barrel there was no mistake we/I had done something bad. The bore was pockmarked for most of the length. It still shot well after that but it was always embarrassing trying to explain the pock marks in the barrel.
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