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What does birdshot mean?

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Noun
  1. A small lead shot, or ammunition, used in shotgun shells.
  2. A rifle or pistol cartridge containing small shot instead of a single projectile.
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I would have been shocked if we had because he was using an air gun with an enormous piece of slug instead of birdshot.
We found both medium caliber projectiles which appear to be 9mm and we found birdshot from a shotgun.
Police said rubber bullets were fired, while the union claimed that birdshot had been used.
To this end it was shot extensively with birdshot, buckshot and slugs on both static and moving targets.
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.
The possible confusion is that No.4 buckshot and No.4 birdshot differ considerably in size.

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