>bismuth bulletsAny good, or is bismuth too rare for this to be worthwhile?
Bismuth is so rare that they'll sell you a pink bismuth sludge in a bottle to help with your tummy aches.
>>64888238It's too light. Way too light.
>>64888238It was a popular waterfowl choice after the lead ban. It lost out to tungsten in the end. I probably have some bismuth 10ga stuffed in a hunting bag somewhere still.
ive only heard of bismuth for shot; stand alone bullets i dont know about it
>>64888244Its about as rare as silver just has far less uses
>>64888238Careful with that stuff, anon.
>>64888238Bismuth 99.5% pure was US$ 250/kgSection 4-6 of the Handbook of chemistry an physics, 95th edition 2014-2015.
>>64888238Shouldn't we be using osmium since it has the highest density?
>>64888281the rarest of substances; also very useless largely
>>64888238Bismuth is kind of brittle, and not quite as heavy as lead, so it can’t be made with expansion precuts like copper can, because it will break apart instead of opening up.
Oh weird. I assumed tungsten had completely replaced bismuth as distance shot shell choice, but apparently loads of companies are making bismuth shells again/still. I never see it on shelves but it's abundant online. I killed a lot of geese with it back in the day.
>>64888281Kinda fucking toxic as he'll if you manage to oxidise some of it. Which isn't that unlikely when fired from a gun.Also, expensive as fuck.
>>64888238Almost as good as lead (depending on the alloy), but significantly more expensive. It's the only game in town if you're not using a shotgun and/or don't want copper.
>>64888244ah, poorfaggot Pepto-Bismol >>64888250>>64888252it's like between steel and lead in terms of density but it's too close to steel and steel is way, way cheaper whereas tungsten is way denser
>>64888254same. I've only ever heard of copper bullets and zinc shotgun slugs>>64888281osmium is expensive, rare, hard to work with and highly toxic
>>64888296where is tungsten produced? federal is discontinuing some of their TSS lines and I see people online saying it's tariff related
>>64888391>steel: 7.8 g/cm cubed>bismuth: 9.6 g/cm cubed>lead: 11.34 g/cm cubedAlmost smack in the middle
>>64888394China and Vietnam are the two leading producers, but China refines more than everyone else combined. Australia is a leading exporter of ore, but dumbfuck Australians sold the rights to most of Australia's tungsten mines to publicly traded corpos for pennies and then the corpos were promptly taken over by Chinese investors, so they barely make any money on the ore and barely refine any of their own.
>>64888408BUT yes jacketed tungsten way denser than lead and also more abundant
>>64888408yeah, but steel is way, way cheaper. I think people still buy steel for ducks over tungsten due to the cost>>64888411why are australians such economic retards? they also lose the most money gambling per capita
>>64888296Bismuth is still a thing because it's cheaper than tungsten and it's safe for old guns.
>>64888391>poorfaggot Pepto-Bismol It's honestly one of the most effective anti-diarrheals you can buy OTC, and is also a nausea reducer. Pretty good at what it does
>>64888614Have we fully understood how it works yet?
>>64888614pepto-bismol is mostly a bismuth compound. the one that says bismuth is probably the same thing, just generic
>>64888419>why are australians such economic retards?It really is as simple as the fact that the UK used it as a giant prison colony for so long. Ship a bunch of people over there with significantly lower IQ than the general population for so long and what do you expect to happen?
>>64888391>poorfag pepto-bismolWhat do you think the 'bis' in 'bismol' means, retard?
>>64889031the bottle that says bismuth on it is the poorfag version you gay tranny retard
>>64888626Oh I thought you meant that pepto and its generic equivalents were for poorfags, lol>>64888617I don't recall the exact mechanism off the top of my head but iirc the anti-diarrheal and acid-reducing effects are pretty concretely understood but the mechanism of its anti-nausea effect is more of an educated guess
>>64888419>why are australians such economic retards? they also lose the most money gambling per capitaIt's because the political elite of Australia is descended from the prison guards and prison guards are all cretins
