I use the steel shot Spar for a good few years and its no problem . I heard loads of crap in the past about the steel shot f*****g the barrels up but beleive me mate its bollox! The shot stays in the Wad cup until it left the barrel so no shot comes in contact.
The other problem I had with steel is its obviousley lighter than lead and lacks the same energy reducing the range, so I was having to come down a size and up a couple of grams! I have now been adviced off WAG to come yet another size which makes sense, The steel shot I still have in theCuboard is Gamebore size 5 - 32Gram, the advi