The phrase "a weight of shot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to shooting, hunting, or discussing ammunition specifications.
Example: "The hunter carefully selected a weight of shot that would be effective for the type of game he was pursuing."
Alternatives: "a load of shot" or "a shot weight".
Although the British fleet was numerically superior, the French ships were larger and stronger, and carried a heavier weight of shot.
Gloire was a substantially larger ship than Astraea, both in weight of shot and gross tonnage, and the battle was fiercely contested: Beens suffered a head injury and all three of Astraeas topmasts taking serious damage, so much so that the main topmast collapsed in the aftermath of the action.
Although the Dane is a superb athlete and great competitor, she lacks the weight of shot to beat the very best.
Two pieces of magic from Radwanska and one costly piece of judgment by Li told the story of the first set: Radwanska, down in the 10th game and fading under the weight of shot coming at her, read a smash from the rampant Li perfectly and threaded a winner down the line – repeating the mind-reading trick a point later with a beautiful reply to Li's serve.
Five games in a row put her in control of a high-quality first set that lasted 57 minutes, as her weight of shot just held the balance of power over Halep's speed of foot.
Record measurements from hunting records are supposedly a total length of nearly 3.6 m for a male shot near Mucsso, southern Angola in October 1973 and a weight of 313 kg for a male shot outside Hectorspruit in eastern Transvaal, South Africa in 1936.
Her athleticism and weight of shot remain extraordinary, as she proved by defeating five seeded players at the Open.
But he has always been weak on the drive and has never had the weight of shot to hit aerially except the occasional slog sweep over midwicket against a spinner.
You had to be in the stadium to sense the consistent weight of shot, to hear the sound that Soderling's strings made as they collided with the ball.
You had to be in the stadium to sense the consistent weight of shot, to grasp just how much court Nadal was covering in a hurry, to hear the sound that Soderling's strings made as they collided with the ball.
