Sporting Gun

Steel yourself

ABSOLUTELY

Robin Scott, former Sporting Guneditor-at-large

You bet! I’ve always had a soft spot for semiautomatics. They’d be my top choice for let day high bird shoots; perfect when ‘representative’ shooting bodies get their way and we’re slapped with another lead shot ban.

Standard steel cartridges might work through game over-and-unders on mediocre to middling birds. But for the decent stuff it’s going to have to be magnum shells

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