Shot (pellet)
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Shot is a collective term for small spheres or pellets, often made of lead. These have been projected from slings since ancient times and were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired
Lead shot
Shot tower at Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia
Selection of post-medieval lead shot
Split shot, used for fishing
Shot tower
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A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of small-diameter shot balls by free fall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is mainly used for projectiles in shotguns
Shot (pellet)
…molten lead through screens into water, forming what was known as "swan shot", and, later, more economically mass-produced at higher quality using a shot tower. The Bliemeister method has supplanted the shot tower method since the early 1960s. Producing lead shot using a shot tower was pioneered in the late…
The shot tower in Dubuque, Iowa
Lead-alloy musket ball thought from its lack of casting marks to have been made in a shot tower
Shot-tower, Browns River Road, Tasmania, 1885-90
Shot Tower, Wentworth Park, Sydney, by Ashley Cooper, c. 1920