Reviewing the mess I posted, I realized that I failed to make it clear that the load I was examining was Remington HD Ultimate Home Defense 12 gauge BB ammo. You can buy the same stuff, Remington HD Ultimate Home Defense, with a mixture of #2 and #4 birdshot (not buckshot but birdshot). All pellets, BB, #2, and #4, are tunsten-bronze-iron. This thread is about the BB loads.
Extrapolating from the Robert Farago review and what he says of #1 lead birdshot, I suspect that Remington's mixed load of #2 and #4 tungsten matrix loads would fare about as well as the #1 birdshot.
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Consideration of this load should be limited to an application where an engagement is guaranteed to be very close range and overpenetration is a significant and unacceptable risk.
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[Upon further review, I see that at least one of the loads of #1 birdshot that he reviewed was a tungsten matrix and now I doubt that Remington's #2/#4 Duplex Load would fare quite as well as the #1 tested by Farago. I am not saying that it isn't a good choice under the above quoted circumstances, but it may not be as good as #1 tungsten matrix. If you are going to go to it, you may want to heed Fargo's caveat about being ready to follow up with larger shot if needed to stop a threat.]
That sounds to me like some individual home defense situtations. Most all are gauranteed to be at under 20 feet and some, depending on the layout of homes and rooms, involve an unacceptable risk of injuring others due to over penetration.