common Duck Buck bird bb goose Swan patent mill cast pellets not Ovoid teardrop Heart tail drip sh..

.27" .266" .24" buck & swan shot was NOT tear drop , Heart shape & or
Tailed Drip shot that came from waste from molten lead poured into water
& then separated into sizes by running it through a series of screens or
sieves, filtered from large holes/shot size to smallest during lead smelting
or
made by cutting sheet lead into strips & then cubes & barrel tumbled to more or
less round off the corners" Page 130 Colonial Frontier Guns 1980 T. M. Hamilton

1665 molten lead using arsenic as a flux poured through a
sieve to become high grade Ovoid dimpled Rupert's Shot

1740 John Harrison invented a clock caged-roller bearing

1765 the Pennsylvania Gazette had ads for Swan shot gang molds or moulds
to make .24" #3 cast BUCK shot & depending on sprew cut also had a tail

1769 -Droped Shot pouring molten lead through screens at various heights
in a Tower due to surface tension becomes of to a near-sphere as they fall

1794 Philip Vaughan patented carriage axle ball bearing & race

1792 BB = size as 60 molded pellets per ounce William Osbaldiston's
British Sportsman, Nobleman, Gentleman & Farmer's Dictionary page 600

1791 & 1792 common shot vs patent or milled shot names

1821 shot size table listed .266 as Swan shot , .231 = Goose ,
& .207 = Duck in Ezukiel "Bakers Remarks on the Rifles" 1835

1961 Louis W. Bliemeister small size lead shot process of metered molten
lead dripped from small orifices approximately 25 mm into hot water, & rolled
along an incline to drop a 3 feet into water was Patent 2,978,742 on 04/11

many sizes of shot are named for what they were appropriate for
buck = deer, moose, caribou vs doe shot
T = turkey
F = foul?
b = bird?

bb = big bird, ball bearing, baseline 1845 bulleted breech
percussion cap cartridge Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert

LG large goose or grape
mg = medium grape & or Goose
SG = small Goose or small Swan

.27 caliber, No. 2 cast buckshot are called Swan-drops
page 97 John Nigel George's..