Could tin be used as a non lead shot?

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RHarris

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Tin is almost as dense as iron. Would it be practicle to make tin shot instead of steel shot when non-lead shot is required?

If steel shot is hard on guns, why not use soft iron instead? What about solid copper?
 
It can be done, IMO, but not economically. Tin's much more expensive than lead.

Pewter, an alloy of tin and lead, has been used for hard cast handgun bullets with good results. It still is considered toxic, so no waterfowl loads that I know of.
 
Tin has been used. The Illinois regs for hunting and trapping 2002 say tin is no longer legal for use when hunting waterfowl. "T" shot, I believe.
 
T is a size designation, but it's not used much anymore. It could have bee coopted for something else.

I'd also think that tin wouldn't be ballistically much better than steel.
 
Kingcreek,
I haven't read the Illinois regs., but isn't T a size designation?

I thought so too, until I read the regs. Then I read them a 2nd time and there was a "comma" in there between T and tinshot.
You are correct.
 
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