The author, Worth Matthewson, in his duck hunting book BIG DECEMBER CANVASBACKS wrote that he used an L.C. Smith for all his duck hunting for many years, with steel shot, big steel shot. After years of hard duck hunting with it he had it at a gunsmith for a minor issue and had him check the chokes. He was amazed to find that they were both extra full. Said he never had the least bit of damage to the barrels.
He was not advocating the use of steel through tight choked old doubles, nor am I, but just reporting on his results with it. I found that very interesting. Just maybe, Smiths have better steel in the barrels than many of today's shooters think.
SRH
