Comes Now Hortonium
Ready for another potential shotshell-pellet material? Here’s the latest entry: Hortonium. It’s a patent-applied-for composite material that has been introduced and is being promoted...
Tom is an independent ballistics consultant and author specializing in the design and testing of shotshells. He is a court-recognized shotshell/ shotgun expert witness with patents on shotshell components, especially for nontoxic shot. Tom was formerly the Ballistics Research Director at the Oregon Institute of Technology and then served as a Ballistics Specialist for the Dept. of the Interior.
Ready for another potential shotshell-pellet material? Here’s the latest entry: Hortonium. It’s a patent-applied-for composite material that has been introduced and is being promoted...
In the July/August 2020 issue I wrote about TSS shot (“TSS: What It Is and Isn’t”). I described TSS shot as the latest tungsten-composite-shot...
Both of the topics I’m covering here were prompted by an ever-building series of reader emails and phone calls concerning these subjects. Since both...
The trend in introducing shotshells is for manufacturers to do so over a longer period of time in any calendar year. Many of the...
Shotshell reloading has always held a strong interest among US shotgunners, including Shooting Sportsman readers. When I conducted a survey a little more than...
Two notable new loads are B&P’s 2½" 12-gauge lead load, said to be suitable for “vintage shotguns,” and HEVI-Shot’s HEVI-XII 3" 28-gauge tungsten-composite load....
In late 2023 there were two important nontoxic-shot developments announced that should become readily available in 2024. RotoMetals’ Prototype Bismuth Shot RotoMetals, a manufacturer...
Today’s shotgunner is confronted (and often confused) by an ever-increasing variety of shot types. Which one to use for what? That is the question....
Here are some answers to common questions by readers who need shotshell information in regards to vintage or inherited shotguns.
Despite shotshell-product-availability issues, especially with hunting loads, that continue largely unabated, here's what's new for 2023.
Every modern plastic or paper shotshell has a crimp. And all of them have crimps for the same principal purpose: to keep the shot...
The longer I’ve worked with and written for shotgunners (40-plus years now), the more I’ve come to realize that a large number of them...