browning auto 5

[moooose102]

so, what would happen to my sweet 16 if i shot steel shot through that belgium barrel. i have heard it shouldn't be done, but i do not know why. all of the bb's are inside of a plastic cup so why would steel shot hurt the barrel? i dont know if it would make any difference or not, but it has a modified choke barrel.

 

[OFT]

It will likely turn your modified choke into an improved cylinder after some time. I would invest in a barrel with screw in chokes or another shotgun if I were planning on shooting steel shot.

 

[rcmodel]

Steel shot will damage the choke in your Belgium A-5 barrel. It is softer steel, and thinner steel then current guns produced for use with steel shot. Steel shot cannot compress like lead shot when it hits the choke restriction, and many of them will cut through the wads sidewalls.

Almost without exception, new guns designed for steel shot use hardened steel choke tubes, thicker barrels, and in many guns, hard chrome plating better able to withstand steel shot impact & scratching.

rcmodel

 

[Jeff Mull]

After a season or so the value of the gun will be cut by 60%.

The damage will be in the form of a bulged barrel, right behind the tightest part of the choke. A shot cup protects the metal from scoring but will not prevent the swaging of a choke in the soft steel of a classic
A5.

If it was ok, I'd be doing it as I have a couple of old A5's and like to use them on waterfowl:



And I dont do it.

Jeff

 

[moooose102]

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