Why cant you shoot
#3
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 29
RE: Why cant you shoot
unlike lead, steel shot does not conform to the shape of the barrel as it's being ejected. therefore it tends to expand the barrels of guns that aren't designed to shoot steel. lead is a much softer metal that is more flexible when it's shot
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
Posts: 2,051
RE: Why cant you shoot
2 reasons
1 Some of the older barrels are softer than the steel shot we shoot
If you shoot steel thru them a slight ring/bulge will form where the choke starts
As the steel shot expands the choke
2 Some older shotguns were proofed to lower pressures than modern steel loads
Not that the loat produces that muck more pressure , but when the steel shot hits the choke ( normaly full)
There is a pressure spike
If you beat a low end or abused gun with the extra pressures
Things can happen
And they might not be fun
I know of a JC Higgiens ( sp ) shotgun that the bolt lock up broke out of the receiver from shooting steel loads
John
1 Some of the older barrels are softer than the steel shot we shoot
If you shoot steel thru them a slight ring/bulge will form where the choke starts
As the steel shot expands the choke
2 Some older shotguns were proofed to lower pressures than modern steel loads
Not that the loat produces that muck more pressure , but when the steel shot hits the choke ( normaly full)
There is a pressure spike
If you beat a low end or abused gun with the extra pressures
Things can happen
And they might not be fun
I know of a JC Higgiens ( sp ) shotgun that the bolt lock up broke out of the receiver from shooting steel loads
John
#5
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Posts: 41
RE: Why cant you shoot
Good toknow. Its a very low end shotgun that was given to him because the price was right. It wasnt my choice Id have given him a proper 870 and been correctly baptised by Remmington.
But it gets him in the woods so I can't argue with that. Just wondered thanks.
But it gets him in the woods so I can't argue with that. Just wondered thanks.
#6
RE: Why cant you shoot
ORIGINAL: MIHunter77
Good toknow. Its a very low end shotgun that was given to him because the price was right. It wasnt my choice Id have given him a proper 870 and been correctly baptised by Remmington.
But it gets him in the woods so I can't argue with that. Just wondered thanks.
Good toknow. Its a very low end shotgun that was given to him because the price was right. It wasnt my choice Id have given him a proper 870 and been correctly baptised by Remmington.
But it gets him in the woods so I can't argue with that. Just wondered thanks.
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