Tempering any thrill I could have for being forced to shoot steel at everything I hunt, are the memories of several Browning A5 barrels from my youth, bulged from the use of heavy loads of number 2 lead shot and/or some form of buckshot.
This was a solid decade before anyone was talking about steel shot.
The guns were looked to at Ahlman’s, and pronounced fit for service with no work being performed.
I thought, then and now, differently.
The whims of time and use leave me with further doubts about the suitability of a gun proofed in England, circa 1954 to use steel shot loads of any type. There has been plenty of opportunity for those tubes to be honed, blued, and rusted under and between the ribs.
Best,
Ted
