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There's a shot tower just outside of Baltimore. I don't know about
shot gun shot, but my understanding is that shot towers were used for
cannon balls. I can't remember any details, but I am left with the
impression that hot iron globs are dropped through a tower of water and
they come out cooler and round at the bottom. Better look it up.
-jc
On Feb 15, 2004, at 6:03 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/15/2004 4:54:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Am I correct that a "shot tower" was used in the manufacture of
> amunition
> for shotguns? Yes. If so is it still done this way? Probably not, but
> I don't know how it is done nowadays; it's probably robot poop. I
> seem to remember from Arch'l History that there were several (or at
> least a couple) of shot towers in NYC. Ruth Ralph
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