the smaller the shot; and vice versa. When you refer to a birdshot you would say something like a “number 2 shot” or a “number 10 shot.” The number 2 shot would contain 87 lead pellets per ounce
Tungsten Super Shot at 18/g cc is both incredibly dense and spherical. At one time, #4 lead was considered the best long-range mallard load. A one ounce load of Tungsten Super Shot has 25% more pellets than a 1-1/2 oz. of #4 lead. Yet, the Tungsten has a high strike velocity ...
The largest shot counterparts are named quite differently, but the relative disparity is about the same, e.g., birdshot BB is 4.57 mm nominal diameter with 50 lead pellets or 72 steel pellets per ounce compared to buckshot 00 in 8.4 mm and 8 pellets per ounce, or buckshot No. 1 in 7....
This is not the reduced power/recoil Fiocchi, and its 9 pellets were the fastest of the 9 pellet 00 buck loads at 1282 feet per second. It kicked the hardest of all the loads as well, and the spread was impressivly controlled for a low cost buckshot. The widest pattern of the 9 ...