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buckshot

[ US /ˈbəkˌʃɑt/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌkʃɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. small lead shot for shotgun shells

How To Use buckshot In A Sentence

  • A new load includes frangible buckshot made by Remington's Disintegrator process that uses copper-plated powdered iron for the projectile.
  • I think buckshot is very inhumane and should not be used for hunting. What is the effiective range for killing a deer with 00 buckshot?
  • The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.
  • Ngui had been loading the Winchester 12-gauge pump with SSG, which is buckshot in English. Hemingway on Hunting
  • The birdshot loads have already accounted for a respectable number of venomous Mississippi snakes and I even bagged a beaver with a well-placed charge of buckshot.
  • To this end it was shot extensively with birdshot, buckshot and slugs on both static and moving targets.
  • Larger shot, like buckshot, is made by the cold heading or swaging process in which calibrated segments of lead wire are fed into a die and then sized into spheres by two hemispherical punches.
  • There is no provision for full-auto fire, so each pull of the trigger results in firing one conventional 12-gauge shell containing a slug or a load of buckshot.
  • The quick back-and-forth movement of the whole gun went unnoticed when shooting slugs, buckshot or firing aimed, single shots as in turkey hunting, but I found it a bit distracting when wing shooting clay pigeons.
  • A happy advantage of the .36 is that 000 buckshot makes a fine projectile and may be bought cheaply in 500 count boxes.
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