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From: sxrmh1@acad3.alaska.edu
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Subject: Re: steel shot
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Date: 23 Mar 91 14:06:24 GMT
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From: sxrmh1@acad3.alaska.edu
> From: mitchell@metaphor.metaphor.com (Greg Mitchell)
> 
> Can anyone explain why steel shot produces a tighter pattern than lead ?
> 
> 
> -- Greg

I have read that it is due to the steel shot being harder than lead and not
deformed by the ignition of the powder starting it on its way (plus the added
chaos of travelling down the barrel at a fairly high rate of speed) - causing
the shot to push on its neighbors and dent one another.

Anyone else?

RMHayman   University of Alaska - Fairbanks   sxrmh1@acad3.alaska.edu
I'm the NRA too. (Life Member)