Tungsten alloy shotgun pellet is used as the shot for shotgun hunting shells. High density, great hardness and resistance to high temperature make tungsten alloy to be one of the most sought-after materials for shotgun pellets in history. The density of tungsten is about 18g/cm3, only gold, platinum, and a few other rare metals have a similar density. It is denser than any other shot material, including lead, steel or bismuth.
The pellets spread upon leaving the barrel, and the power of the burning charge is divided among the pellets, which means that the energy of any one ball of shot is fairly low. In a hunting context, the product makes shotguns useful primarily for hunting birds and other small games.
Tungsten alloy shotgun pellet benefits come from the fact that it is denser than any other shot material, including lead, steel or bismuth, to understand how the density factors into performance, let’s look at two spheres about the same size, a golf ball and a ping-pong ball, golf ball is far denser and will fly farther and hit harder now reduce that size down to two single pellets, one steel and the other a tungsten alloy, get the result tungsten will fly farther, hit harder and penetrate deeper, that means more birds, farther out with fewer cripples.
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