Heat treating shot success

[Big D]

It's been years since I loaded turkey loads with Grex buffering, but my tests showed a 25% improvement in pattern density with 3% antimony shot

[Milton C Starr]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

It's been years since I loaded turkey loads with Grex buffering, but my tests showed a 25% improvement in pattern density with 3% antimony shot

From what I can tell 6% heat treated should give the same hardness if you were to make shot from linotype lead which I dont think anyone does. I think this comes down to these days most people would rather just jump to one of the tungsten alloys instead of experimenting with lead further. A side note I was recently reading about there is indeed non toxic lead but I havnt seen anyone try and make ammunition with it which I find interesting. Im not sure how much pattern I can expect with a cyl bore 8 gauge but it does seem to pattern buckshot out to 50 yards well.