Environmentally improved shot

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1991-11-01

1993-02-23

Carone, Michael J.

Ammunition and explosives

Cartridges

Shot

102514, 102517, F42B 704

Patent

active

051892529

ABSTRACT:
Environmentally improved alternatives to lead shot are provided that overcoat a lead coat with a chemically inert polymer bonded thereto by heating lead shot coated with the polymer above the melting point of the lead shot, or by substituting for lead a combination of dense metal and light metal, and either a core/coating bimetallic sphere relationship or a matrix of light metal provided with powder of a heavy metal embedded therein. The composite shot exhibits a density similar to that of lead.

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patent: 4383853 (1983-05-01), Zapffe
patent: 4498395 (1985-02-01), Kock et al.
patent: 4714023 (1987-12-01), Brown
patent: 4881465 (1989-11-01), Hooper et al.
patent: 4949645 (1990-08-01), Hayward et al.

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