<P style="MARGIN: 0px">There's several types of tungsten shot coming onto the market. One such shot is being called Tungsten Super Shot tm. It's almost pure tungsten made from powder and formed with heating into round pellets, a process called "sintering". It's weight is heavy enough to allow the use of smaller pellets and lighter shot charges to achieve the same pattern density and penetration as heavier charges of larger size Hevishot. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">On a thread on the shooting reloading forum of the Refuge, a comparison was done between 1 3/4 oz. #2 Hevishot 10ga. load (119 pellets) and a 1 1/4 oz. 12ga. #5, TSS load (129 pellets), fired at a 3/8" plywood board at 70 yards. On firing the 1 3/4 oz. #2 Hevi load, 77 pellets hit the board and 55 gave a complete pass through. On firing the 1 1/4 oz. #5 TSS load, 127 hit the board and all 127 gave complete pass through.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The developer is expecting that people will buy it, even though it will be more expensive per unit of weight than Hevishot as they can use smaller pellets and lighter shot charges and still obtain the same performance as heavier charges of bigger Hevishot pellets.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The performance is impressive, as will be the expected price.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">http://www.refugeforums.com/refuge/showthread.php?t=352712</P>