478 THE FOWLER IN IRELAND. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Shot Cartridge-making for Big Guns Cleaning and Preserving 

 Guns Weather- warnings, &c. The Wildfowl Act. 



SHOT-MAKERS all differ in their lettering and numbers 

 to the ounce, and there is no standard to go by or 

 compare with. 



London 5 is the same as Newcastle 6. Gunners, 

 if they investigated, would often find they were 

 using in their guns quite a different size of shot to 

 what they imagined. 



Hardened shot and chilled shot are identical. 

 The term cold blast is also applied to this kind of 

 shot in the north of England, and it consists of an 

 alloy of lead and antimony with a small proportion 

 of arsenic, which is compulsory in the process of 

 manufacture. The antimony is the hardening ele- 

 ment, and the approximate proportions are 



Lead, 94 per cent. 

 Antimony, 5 per cent. 

 Arsenic, from \ to i per cent. 



Patent or soft shot is simply made from pure lead, 

 with about a \ per cent, of arsenic. 



Some of the smaller numbers are, however, 



