Juan, while 00 Buckshot worked for Guav, I’m sure he’d find that TSS would be far better if he tried it. It is dramatically more dense and hard than lead buckshot and penetrates much better.
No, you haven’t. You may have seen Bismuth shatter but you haven’t seen TSS shatter on goose bones. We’ve shot a good number of Canada Geese with TSS and generally it goes right through them like nothing else I’ve ever seen before.
Mike, while not frontal shots I did talk to Bryce Hensley, owner of Foxtrot Ammo about his TSS loads. He told me he shot a wild pig that weighed about 180-200 pounds at a laser measured 52 yards, broadside. He was shooting a 1 1/4 oz. Load of TSS #2’s. He told me that 41 pellets hit the pig and 38 of them exited the offside. He found the remaining 3 pellets under the hide after going through the shoulders. His opinion on a leopard is that his TSS #2 loads would possibly penetrate the entire length of a leopard with some pellets exiting from the back end.
..wow.....unfortunately will never see it this side..too specialised and expensive
Don’t want to get in an argument with you, but yes I have.
Now we're talking! Actual experience.
Steve, a 1 1/4 oz load is 546 grain and a 12 gauge is about .72 caliber, so it’d be similar initial impact, albeit at a lower velocity, to a big bore bullet. Definitely similar to a muzzleloader. A 1 1/2 oz load would weigh 656 grains. I expect that the pellets would spread out some as they travel through a cat and damage all sort of things on their journey, but yes that initial impact would be like one big ass bullet.
We won’t have an arguement, but I doubt it. Your ‘observation’ has been exactly 100% the opposite of what I’ve observed on a few dozen honkers.
I took some to Zim last year and unfortunately we weren’t able to call in a hyena to test it on. Alan Vincent has it, he just hasn’t gotten around to whacking a hyena with it yet to let me know how it works.As my little face under your post said...
Not trying to be obtuse. But
Just saying if all i had was a shotgun while out and about id use it on a big cat as last resort.Fk...OK am out..so have an excuse...but still confused........
I will not discount your experience or call you out on this. But I'd be interested in what brand of ammo you are using and ask if you had any pictures to share. Something this unusual typically results in someone taking out their mobile phone for a picture.
A strong neomydium magnet is your friend.... my friend.
Ive seen brits ooen beer bottles with them so maybe. Im just not that caliber man i guess lolMmm...so teeth don't work?....
If a TSS pellet shattered on a goose bone, it was fractured due to some manufacturing defect or freak pellet to pellet impact during ignition. before it hit the goose bone. Especially considering the distances, and attending reduction in impact velocity with which the pellets strike the goose. That is like telling me a steel ballbearing fractured on a goose bone. I would have to see it to believe it, and even then it would be such an insanely rare anomaly, it would be too insignifcant to even seriously consider.
hmmm, expensive...how much is your life worth?
