The ballistics of shotguns and birdshot is well known to tens of millions of Americans who hunt fowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives] Reference

This makes it what I call a birdshot weasle word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Explain to our viewers the nature of that birdshot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference

It was just a minor accident with 28 gauge birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

The comment hit Robert like a sock full of birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Demonkeeping]

But my buddy now has birdshot in his face and neck and chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Kwiatkowski: Cheney Latest Chapter (and Verse)] Reference

You've got birdshot of all kinds of weather around the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2007] Reference

BANKO: We can't comment on what type of BBs or birdshot is was.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006] Reference

His hunting partner now lies wounded with birdshot in his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

He's got a face full of birdshot on a quail hunt in south Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference

And he shows what it's like when birdshot is sprayed at 90 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006] Reference

Get the story behind the birdshot heard around the Lone Star State.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2007] Reference

Then I clicked the safety, because the Brennekes were not birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

It was triggered by a piece of birdshot lodged in or near his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

Doctors estimate that there are 6-200 pieces of birdshot in his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

The reason I used the birdshot was that I didnt want to break the glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Country For Old Men]

At this point in time, there's no plans to do surgery to remove that birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

Has there not been a confirmed birdshot free sighting of Biden since the meeting?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Staffers Begin Mulling Health Care Reform As Part Of Stimulus Package [UPDATED WITH CORRECTION]] Reference

But what happened is one of the BBs from the birdshot has migrated toward the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

BLITZER: Dr. Blanchard says the location of that birdshot is not 100 percent certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We knew that he had birdshot very close to the heart from the get-go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some of the birdshot appears to have lodged into a part of his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

That's what they're talking about when they are talking about the birdshot in these cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference

Doctors say he's alert and talking and right now there are no plans to remove the birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference

Because within that distance, the birdshot still has enough velocity to penetrate the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference

Ray Vella, a park ranger for BirdLife, says he got a face full of small birdshot in October.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Tiny Malta,] Reference

PETER BANKO, HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR: There is no plans to do surgery to remove that birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006] Reference

STEWART: Like things to go a little wrong like birdshot to the face of a guy that will survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006] Reference

LAVANDERA: Doctors have no plans to remove the birdshot pellet lodged in or alongside Whittington's heart muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006] Reference

I can't tell you, though, how glad we are to see you back, even if it did cost next to our last shell of birdshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

How sporting is it to employ multiple shooters, guides, dogs, Italian rifles and birdshot against birds hiding in the grass?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

But her husband, Julian Lewis, whose body was riddled with birdshot, was alive and moaning "baby, baby, baby" when police arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Va. woman executed for slayings in 2002] Reference