With soft shot like lead and bismuth, buffer protects pellets from deforming. Deforming pellets are more affected by air resistance, and fly out of patterns. With hard shot, buffer helps pellets ...
[NightHawkInLight] has been playing around with the diamagnetic properties of bismuth. Diamagnetic materials get a lot of attention due to their strange ability to produce the opposite of the ...
Bismuth has become popular as a replacement for the highly toxic metal lead, as it has a comparable density and many countries now prohibit the use of lead shot for hunting water birds.