The obvious answer is to use silver. It’ll work on both ducks and werewolves.
Anyway, you forgot tungsten (19.3g/cm3, even geater than gold). Alloyed with steel as it usually is in shotgun shells it’s like 14.9g/cm3, denser than lead and cheaper than using it pure.
The point of this is to not be broadcasting lead all over the countryside. Silver, gold, or otherwise, nobody is going to be able to pick up all the pellets from any shots that don’t hit the target. And in shotgun hunting, that’s most of them. Some ranges do dig up their backstops now and again and reclaim the lead, but in a hunting context that’s quite impossible.
The obvious answer is to use silver. It’ll work on both ducks and werewolves.
Anyway, you forgot tungsten (19.3g/cm3, even geater than gold). Alloyed with steel as it usually is in shotgun shells it’s like 14.9g/cm3, denser than lead and cheaper than using it pure.
Tungsten, for when the deer start wearing Kevlar.
Isn’t tungsten harder to refine?
IIUC, silver cost less than $1 a gram—the rich can afford it—and I suppose it could be recycled.
Probably, but tungsten steel shotshells are already readily available.
The point of this is to not be broadcasting lead all over the countryside. Silver, gold, or otherwise, nobody is going to be able to pick up all the pellets from any shots that don’t hit the target. And in shotgun hunting, that’s most of them. Some ranges do dig up their backstops now and again and reclaim the lead, but in a hunting context that’s quite impossible.
Thanks for the link.
If refining tungsten is less un-environmental than refining silver, then okay.