No, no, no, no,no. Dinna do it. You'll shoot your eye out. Well, not really but it sure can score the hell out of your bores. Just got through polishing the bore of a pre-war Browning Auto 5 that went through one box of steel and looked like the bore had had a road grader run through it. Precision Reloading, up in Connecticut still had Bismuth shot, last I looked but not loaded shells.