Pls read my first posrting again. I asked for advice from any one using steel shot loads in a heavy Duck. Not from apprentice curators & theorists and certianly not from them thinking my Heavy Duck is R.E. Lee's pistol or Eisenhower's Mod 21. I can sure shoot bismuthh or other cnon gtox shot but try to fly to far way places whikle limited to 5 kg of shells? And then the xray operators still give you a hard time. You gotta shoot whats available locally and that is steel. As far as buying a S/B 2 or a 870 you can do that if you want to, I will shoot my Mode 12. Again I ask from any one who has done this, not them that keep guns stacking in safe and take them out with white gloves on only for vanity to impress friends. Joe