It seems that all the groups looking into a potential lead ban have bought into the "steel is just fine in all modern guns" myth. Here it is, in a paper prepared by the Nontoxic Shot Advisory Committee for the Minnesota DNR:
"Experts currently believe that modern steel loads are safe in any modern gun regardless of choke . . . "
Grouse Guy, if you're still listening . . . certainly if you follow this website you should know better, and you should take the necessary steps to correct that statement in your resolution. Please see the Browning website, to which I referred earlier. And I'd be glad to furnish you with a copy of the information that accompanies my Parker Reproduction, stating that steel should not be used in Repros with full choke barrels. So we're talking Brownings made well into the 1970's, Parker Reproductions made in the 1980's . . . and those do not qualify as "modern guns"? Proposals such as yours will not get the support of really knowledgeable shooters and hunters, such as you find on this website, when inaccurate or misleading information is included. Are those "experts" going to pay for someone's Browning Superposed or Parker Reproduction in the event of damage due to shooting steel?
