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n. A small lead shot, or ammunition, used in shotgun shells.
Usage examples of "birdshot".
During his brief shotgun lesson with Dave, Gerd was told to use birdshot only when hunting birds.
He knew Jan's discarded shotgun would have more shells in it, even if they were likely birdshot.
His face was still pock-marked with spots where Helen's birdshot had nicked him, and he wore a piece of adhesive tape across his earlobe.
Upon impact, the projectile fragments, with the birdshot spreading like a miniature shotgun pattern.
Shotguns could be bought in Tehran, but the only kind of ammunition allowed by the Shah was birdshot.
The trouble with putting buckshot into birdshot slugs would be that they would get relatively few shot into the smaller slugs: the ammunition would have great penetration but little spread.
They would also take the Number 2 shot-Davis would carry it in his beanbag---and the equipment Simons needed for reloading the shot into birdshot cartridges-Simons would carry that himself.
Rhodes" hirelings, and it was birdshot, and she did miss with one barrel.
Pancho Armijo had tied Esperanza to a rope in the front yard, and whenever he or Stella caught mutts creeping on their filthy bellies toward her, they stampeded out of the house shooting birdshot from a .
Despite this birdshot barrage, the male dogs kept sneaking around with their slanty bloodshot eyes dripping vile lusting mucus, and with their swollen testicles pulsating anxiously.
Everybody but Sam used heavy frames, sand filled tubes, bags of birdshot, or Corvette body parts to add weight.
The light trap load - a low-brass shell with #8 birdshot, like that used for competition shooting, or perhaps an early-season dove hunt - would have only injured a man at more than fifteen yards, but in contact with his chest, it might as easily have been an elephant gun.