I reckon that if I did not care too much about good shotguns and could be happy shooting the guns which are built to be safe for steel shot, then perhaps steel shot would not seem like such an abomination to me as it does now. However I have developed preferences in guns over the years, and I find that I want to shoot guns which balance well and which are a pleasure to use. This type of shotgun and steel shot in my opinion are mutually exclusive and do not belong together. So this factor together with the way steel shot does not work as well as lead make me unhappy with the idea of ever shooting steel again. Shotshell manufacturers should be taken to task for all their promotion of steel loads and their failure to provide economical non-lead loads which are safe in good guns.
