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There was a lot of fuzz in Denmark when there was a general ban on lead for Hunting and clays. However the last few years have lead to better and cheaper alternatives. Steel shot is used for clay targets, and todays ammunition does not have a higher pressure than the older days lead carthridges.

I myself shoot a Gebruder Merkel from 1954 in caliber 16 with fixed shokes for skeet. The shokes are untuched 3/4 and full i think. My best result this year was 117/125 with this gun and a 26 gramms steel load. I shoot quite a lot and have put more than 10.000 rounds of steel thru the old Merkel and there are no signs on the barrels.

A fellow skeet shooter got an old english fine shotgun this year with Damascus barrels, a fenomenal balance and the old english lady is fed with 65 mm steel shot without any protests. According to the expert gunmaker www.plguns.dk importing the gun from England there is no problem whatsoever doing that. also a W. Ewans side by side originally with 65 mm chambers has been rebored to 70 mm chambers and is shooting fine with ordinary steel 24 grams.

What i wouldent do is to use some of the american Magnum loads from iex Remington with large shot sizes in a gun with more than 1/4 choke. Anyway i find these loads unpleasent to shoot.

best regards, Peter Frost Hørlyck