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You can explain it to someone, Doc, but you cannot understand it for them.

While I would never do this, I have a book written by Worth Mathewson entitled Big December Canvasbacks in which the author describes a L C Smith he used for many years with steel shot on the Pacific Northwest coastal region. Something minor went wrong with the gun and he took it to a gunsmith who told him the chokes were full and full. He also told him that the barrels had not been damaged by the steel shot. Point? Sometimes people obsess too much over the steel shot/old barrel deal. Prolly the same ones (like Ed, or is it Dirty Harry?) that decry shooting smokeless powder in damascus barrels.

Ed also thinks a BSS is a "collectible" gun. I don't. I've shot mine so much at ducks that it is off face. I keep a shim on the hook, and just keep on shooting my "collectible" BSS.