Tungsten Super Shot was once only popular among handloaders, but more production shotshell makers are engineering TSS.

With efforts underway to ban lead-based ammunition as a potential health and environmental hazard, scientists are reporting new evidence that a prime alternative material for bullets -- tungsten ...

The reasons for reloading shotshells are myriad. Turkey hunters like to create special loads using tungsten super shot (TSS) and Hevi-Shot.

Grouse hunters in the northern forests would not be affected. Alternatives to lead include steel, tungsten and polymer shot.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given temporary approval for the use of tungsten-iron and tungsten-polymer shot during the 1998-1999 waterfowl hunting seasons.