Quote from: Gooserbat on April 07, 2025, 01:57:45 PMBrice told me that Fox Trot played around with some 13 gr/cc stuff. I personally don't understand the allure of it but to each his own.
The allure is more pellets of a larger pellet size & cheaper cost.
I do not have the data, but if you could get a similar number of #6 pellets into a shell, as that of #9 pellets, with both shells holding similar pattern density...
TSS allows you to use a smaller pellet and maintain downrange energy with very tight patterns. But there is also something to be said for the size of the wound channel made...
How many more #9 wound channels need to be made than #6 wound channels for instant death?
Energy alone is not lethal. Death occurrs from a shotgun by tissue damage and wound channels, and larger pellets create larger wound channels.
And of course cost... TSS loads on the Hevi-Shot site are just about double in cost. Maybe TSS works better, but how much better and more lethal is TSS than Hevi-Shot? At the ranges most of us proclaim to shoot birds on this form (i.e. 40 yards and under), I doubt there would be ANY significant difference in field preformance.
I do wish that Hevi-Shot would come up with a lower payload option... I have no need or desire to pattern and/or shoot a 2 oz load.
