Don't worry about steel in your Baikal even with full and half chokes. I have used Gamebore 32g of No.5 steel this summer in all 6 of my Baikals for pigeons with the occasional 36g of No.4 for geese with no problem at all. Admittedly,one of the O/U's is the multichoke 3" chamber but I still used 1/2 and 3/4 choke in that. Getting a good fibre wad is, and will be the problem but in the meantime the plaswads will give you the bore protection you need. However I still intend to gather a goodly supply of lead cartridges to see out my final years after the ban. There is hope that clay shooters will be allowed lead so 28g of Continental 7 1/2 would do very nicely for pigeons.


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