Fergus: I shoot everything from 100-year-old doubles with bismuth and tungsten-matrix to an early Benelli SBE with steel, but my favorite compromise is my A-5 Magnum with a Hastings replacement barrel, which lets me shoot hot modern steel out of a 50-year-old classic duck gun. It's all a matter of personal preference, of course, but an O/U is the last configuration I'd pick for a close-quarters duck blind or goose pit, and I like Superposeds too much to risk battering even a Magnum with steel and the kind of recoil modern steel loads generate. I'm getting fired-up just talking about it, though. The Teal season is just around the corner! Happy hunting. TT
