Lead Shot

[musketman]

Does anyone remember square shot pellets?

I seem to recall something about it in the early 1980's, suppose to through a wider shot pattern at closer ranges...

 

[Stumpkiller]

Before whazzizface (you know - the famous old guy) had the dream about lead rain and invented the shot tower it was common to cut shot from lead sheets. The good stuff would then be rolled in barrels and grades through sets of screens.

I have a family heirloom set of horns. One held powder, the other shot. Inside the shot horn is the oddest assortment of shot sizes you could imagine. From #8 to 00, all jumbled together. Of course, I have no real way of dating the shot or knowing if that is the condition it might have been used in. Combine this with a straight-walled smoothbore and you got you a wide spread.

 

[Stumpkiller]

His name? William Watts. LOL. I was close.

http://www.traphof.org/shot_towers/shot_towers_page_1.htm

Here the link.

 

[musketman]

I know swan shot was used at one time as well (early 1800 perhaps?)

Anywho, I think the cubed shot was also made out of bismuth...

 

[Stumpkiller]

Cubic Shotshell Company
98 Fatima Dr., Campbell, OH 44405
(330) 755-0349
Contact: Marilyn Terlecki or
Thomas E. Terlecki
Available in 20, 16 and 12 ga.


Who'd a thunk? Wonder is this is what Gumby's enemies armed themselves with?