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Originally Posted by lwcamp
Depleted uranium is pretty easily acquired on the open market
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Aha fair enough!
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Originally Posted by lwcamp
(it's the enriched uranium that is likely to get you lots of questions by unpleasant men. Especially the highly enriched uranium. Especially ESPECIALLY highly enriched uranium in 25 kg quantities. Although admittedly, that would take out a monster real good. Not exactly subtle, though). Natural uranium is easily acquired, too (they normally use DU for tank guns because you just have so much of the stuff lying around as waste from your enrichment plants so it is cheap).
If you really don't like uranium for some reason, tungsten, tungsten carbide, iridium, osmium, platinum, and gold all have the density. Gold might be a bit too deformable for high penetration against hard armor, but at the low velocity you will get from a shotgun I doubt you'd see much difference in any of the others. Don't expect to see pyrophoric action from uranium at these speeds, either.
Luke
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Cool, I figured DU is used because as you say it's a by product that governments have easy access to. Other materials as dense likely being more expensive for them (tungsten carbide used to be the choice IIRC).
Edit: actually taking you point about it being low velocity, what's your opinion on the effectiveness of such rounds from a shotgun, would you keep tha x1.5 & x1.7 bonus?