Table, comparing Hortonium with other shot types, appears on the Horton & Sons website.

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...

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TSS Shot Revisited

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...

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Dangerous Loading Practices

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...

Q&A Plus Notable New Loads

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....

Nontoxic-Shot Developments

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...

What’s in a Crimp?

Every modern plastic or paper shotshell has a crimp. And all of them have crimps for the same principal purpose: to keep the shot...