2.75" Winchester Longbeard

[Davyalabama]

I have hundreds of rounds of TSS through chrome lined barrel, not a mark on it.

Stretching distance just isn't happening with lead in a lighter payload, you run out of pattern long before energy.

Go shoot a number four 2 3/4 load past forty and see for yourself, 40 will be a stretch.

Chrome lined is a modern barrel, TSS is perfectly fine in those.

The OP is asking for older barrels, the new stuff is too hard for our older barrels.

My model 12 and A5 will definitely handle #4's past 40. Now, is it as tight a pattern or as good as TSS, no sir, it is not at all, as good. However, some of us old timers enjoy hunting with our older guns, and we for sure do not want to destroy them.