A professional who sets up and operates battery of machines to press lead slugs into buckshot for shotgun ammunition. Respnsibilities include:

• Removes and replaces dies, punches, and die blocks, and adjusts knockout pins, feed fingers, and stops, using handtools.
• Fills hoppers with lead slugs from scoop or tote box.
• Starts machines and measures diameters of swaged shot samples, using shot gauge, and weighs them on balance scale to determine conformance to specifications.
• Rolls shot under dial micrometer to verify roundness.
• Turns bolts, setscrews, and stop nuts to adjust position of punches and dies by trial and error to produce acceptable shot.