Use of fine shot in colonial America

[Billy-by-gosh]

Some northern tribes made a sieve by piercing birch bark, then pouring molten lead thru that into water. The result was some fairly decent small shot. Pretty simple yet ingenious device that saved the labor of cutting lead strips, although that was no doubt used as well.

 

[Ohio Rusty]

Shot was used in the 18th century. The PDF :
Highways to History: The Archaeology of Connecticut’s
18th-Century Lifeways
There were excavations of several 18th century homesteads in Connecticut. This PDF has some great pics of artifacts. On page 67 of the PDF, it shows pics of round ball and two different types of shot was was found both round shot and cut shot.. On page 75 of the PDF, it talks about all the different sizes of shot that would have been used for hunting different game animals. The whole PDF is a really interesting read with all the stuff that was dug up on the different 18th century sites. Here is the link to the PDF:
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/dot/highwaystohistorypdf.pdf

Ohio Rusty ><>

 

[French Colonial]

According to Hamilton "Colonial Frontier Guns" 1987 the French in 1734 alone shipped 28,000 Livres (30,212 lbs) of shot to the French colonies.

One must assume the English were doing similar in the English colonies