There's a discussion on an upland forum about the effect of steel shot on older barrels. Basically, it centered around an older (1946) Ithaca Model 37 and whether or not to spend the money to have the barrel opened from full to IC or Skeet, OR just go buy a new gun that could shoot steel shot when the regulations finally demand it. The postings stated that once you opened up the full barrel to IC or Skeet it no longer mattered, because now you could shoot steel shot out of it without hurting it. In other words, it's only the tighter choke that's effected by the steel shot in older barrels, not the barrel itself. IS THIS TRUE?
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