The Shot-maker's Secrets

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.

[@smadaf]

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.

[@Jedda73]

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.

[@peter_castle]

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

[@joey243win]

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

[@outnode366]

Much better full stop.

[@jamiem5364]

@@outnode366 Back when Australia was Australia

[@chydedelaplace8947]

That's pretty cool.

[@jro1000]

That was great!

[@piercetheflesh9085]

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

[@mrleechapman7615]

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]

I need advice how to manufacture 5mm Size Lead Shots

[@northernwoodsman]

Isnt that quite large? Almost #4 buckshot?

[@adnantambawala8343]

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

[@northernwoodsman]

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

[@adnantambawala8343]

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

[@smug8567]

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.

[@svernwarunos546]

Way back when aussies had guns.

[@chadwickcloister5143]

Blimey

[@yakamarezlife]

Your shot tower isnt the biggest the one in Baltimore is 300 feet

[@smadaf]

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.