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I thought it was some bullet lore.
And what do the numbers mean?
86 is a restaurant term, basically meaning that there is no more of a dish.
46 in this context is the 46th president of the united states.
And for a serious response on shell pattern, its referencing shotgun shells; if you are using birdshot, you get a very spread out pattern of impact points, with buckshot it would be a tight grouping of impact points (shotgun shells are packed with metal BB's instead of a single, larger chunk of metal).
86 started at a speakeasy during the prohibition called Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street in NYC. They'd kick out poorly behaved people, telling them to "86 it" out the door. These days restaurant workers and kitchen staff is 86 to mean that a menu item is unavailable or someone is being cut off or kicked out. It basically means "get rid of it".
The shell pattern is actually referencing a picture Comey tweeted of sea shells in a pattern on a beach that formed the numbers "86 47"