Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates battery of machines to press lead slugs into buckshot for shotgun ammunition: Removes and replaces dies, punches, and die blocks, and adjusts knockout pins, feed fingers, and stops, using handtools.

• 2) Fills hoppers with lead slugs from scoop or tote box.

• 3) Starts machines and measures diameters of swaged shot samples, using shot gauge, and weighs them on balance scale to determine conformance to specifications.

• 4) Rolls shot under dial micrometer to verify roundness.

• 5) Turns bolts, setscrews, and stop nuts to adjust position of punches and dies by trial and error to produce acceptable shot.