The Shot-maker's Secrets

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7 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows about shotguns, but the small round "shot" that they use has to be carefully made or it won't be spherical. Rob shows you how the elaborate process was done more than a hundred years ago.

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@Jedda73 7 жыл бұрын

If you check out the corner of Tyrrel and Brown steets in Newcastle NSW using street view on google maps you will see we have a lead shot tower here too. When I was in primary school in Newcastle, one of the excursions was a trip around this area to be taught about its history including a stop at the lead shot tower.

@smadaf 2 жыл бұрын

The shot-tower in Taroona (near Hobart), Tasmania, Australia, built in 1870 and described in this video as "the tallest one in the world", is 192.6 feet (58.7 meters) tall. It is the tallest shot-tower in the southern hemisphere. The Phoenix Shot-Tower, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, built in 1828, is 234.25 feet (71.4 meters) tall.

@jro1000 7 жыл бұрын

That was great!

@chydedelaplace8947 7 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool.

@joey243win 5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh australia in the 80s....a nuch better place on some levels

@outnode366 5 жыл бұрын

Much better full stop.

@jamiem5364 5 жыл бұрын

@@outnode366 Back when Australia was Australia

@peter_castle 3 жыл бұрын

That's the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Tower,_Taroona I liked this segment, it has a lot of explanations that require reading!

@piercetheflesh9085 Жыл бұрын

The tallest is in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, there's also another one in the city

@mrleechapman7615 4 жыл бұрын

Geez imagine this being on the tv today_____ oh my there would be an Government commission, and it would be on a current affair and 60 minutes.

@adnantambawala8343 5 жыл бұрын

I need advice how to manufacture 5mm Size Lead Shots

@northernwoodsman 5 жыл бұрын

Isnt that quite large? Almost #4 buckshot?

@adnantambawala8343 5 жыл бұрын

@@northernwoodsman We need this size Lead Shots for Weight Balancing.

@northernwoodsman 5 жыл бұрын

@@adnantambawala8343 make a shot dripper with bigger holes. Or if you want bigger shot, Lee sells shot moulds.

@adnantambawala8343 5 жыл бұрын

Northern Woodsman thank you very much for your suggestion, I will try it and will let you know if it works...

@svernwarunos546 5 жыл бұрын

Way back when aussies had guns.

@smug8567 4 жыл бұрын

Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they’re told to do they up and do it. They don’t think nothing of pulling a shot-towerup by the roots, and belting a Sunday-school superintendent over the head with it-or any other man.