From: lfiskgr@gmail.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 May 2025 09:27:13 -0700   
   Bob La Londe  wrote:   
      
      
   >Unless somebody has been shooting steel BBs through the barrel its   
   >likely (sans lead fouling) as good as it was when it was new.  Lead   
   >pellets are typically dead soft lead.  They are not hardcast like pistol   
   >projectiles.   
      
   Older models had a magnetic tipped probe kinda needed for holding BB's   
   in place. They changed this at some point and the new probe was no   
   longer magnetic and no mention of shooting BB's in the literature   
   anymore...   
      
   --   
   Leon Fisk   
   Grand Rapids  MI   
      
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