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How to use birdshot in a sentence

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It is almost as uncommon as locating a wild turkey or jackrabbit running around Texas without a load of birdshot under its hide.
The possible confusion is that No.4 buckshot and No.4 birdshot differ considerably in size.
But his weapon carried special cartridges filled with birdshot rather than soft-tipped lead bullets.
Despite being summer, the temperature was below 10 and the intermittent rain stung like birdshot.
The boss took a 16 gauge, pump shotgun loaded with birdshot outside and fired thrice into the tree.
We found both medium caliber projectiles which appear to be 9mm and we found birdshot from a shotgun.
It happened the only ammunition I could find at home was 12-gauge birdshot.
Police said rubber bullets were fired, while the union claimed that birdshot had been used.
I would have been shocked if we had because he was using an air gun with an enormous piece of slug instead of birdshot.
To this end it was shot extensively with birdshot, buckshot and slugs on both static and moving targets.
One of those who fell suffered terrible injuries after being struck at close range by birdshot from a riot-squad shotgun.
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.
Among the injured police, 10 were hurt by youths firing fine-grain birdshot in a late-night clash in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
The old wisdom used to be to load a nightstand shotgun with birdshot.
Police attacked them with rubber bullets and birdshot.
But late in the evening a police charge with truncheons, accompanied by barrages of tear-gas, volleys of birdshot, plastic bullets and percussion rounds, cleared the square.
Police attacked them with tear-gas and birdshot.
Before it could reach the hub of Cairo's bygone uprising, Shaimaa el-Sabbagh, a 32-year-old activist from a new left-wing party, had been fatally shot in the back with birdshot.
Examples from Classical Literature
The snow came in sheets like birdshot, a half-sleet that stung like hail as it cut 235 the face.
I wouldn't a' minded pepperin' Roselle's legs a trifle, if I'd had a barrel loaded, say, with birdshot.
Well, the g-g-gun goes off, and f-f-fills Mister Thief with number twelve birdshot.
The night-riders mostly used these here automatic shot-guns, but they didn't bother with birdshot.
Even youths had risen up and peppered his back with birdshot, and beef cattle had trod him underfoot and smashed his rifle.
In Dokki district, a number of protesters were hit by live rounds, some by birdshot.
But at that distance, the birdshot could do no lasting damage.
He has recovered from his meal of birdshot, and can jump surprisingly.
We do not seek bears with birdshot, and that is all we have.
They said that sparked pushing and shoving that later saw police officers fire tear gas and birdshot.
Well, mind how you tempt me to let fly with a charge of birdshot.
The public prosecutor said in a statement she was killed by an officer who fired birdshot to try to disperse the protest.
The Forensic Medicine Authority concluded that Al-Sabbagh's death was caused by birdshot to the back, causing lacerations in the lungs and heart and major hemorrhage.
Birdshot is cheap and will feed your family, terminate venomous serpents and provide low-cost, high-volume training against targets both terrestrial and airborne.
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