[93formee]

Please, if ya'all catch a hungry guy in your garden, please, instead of blasting him with Rocksalt, or anything else, give him a grocery bag. If you cannot afford this, let me know, I can kick in a buck or two. Let me know.

 

[Big_Dawg]

I believe that the rock salt in the shotgun is right up there with the load of dimes in the shotgun.

They use lead shot in shotshells because of the weight. Go back and read that first post. A QUARTER-OUNCE OF SALT.

Try this - get a handful of shot and stand 15 ft away from a sheet of paper, and throw the shot at the paper just as hard as you can.

Now get a handful of salt and do the same thing. That shot put holes in the paper. I guarantee it. That salt never got there. It doesn't have the weight to carry any distance.

It's a good story. Both the salt and the dimes are good stories. But they don't work.

 

[Big_Dawg]

Please, if ya'all catch a hungry guy in your garden, please, instead of blasting him with Rocksalt, or anything else, give him a grocery bag. If you cannot afford this, let me know, I can kick in a buck or two. Let me know.

Awwww Man . . . How 'bout this . . .

 

[shootbrownelk]

I have come to the conclusion now it is a myth.
I was filling are water softener and I thought about the stories I had heard about people getting shot with rock salt trying to steal watermelons, so I thought I would test this out and try and shoot some rock salt.
I loaded up some 12 ga. shells I had that I had taken the shot out of. Each shell loaded full held a quarter ounce of course rock salt, I used the full choke barrel.
The first shot was at 25 yards away, nothing touched the target. The next shot was from 15 yards away, only 5 pieces were detectable on the card board, and nothing penetrated the cardboard.

I wonder were these stories of shooting rock salt got started.

OWT....Old Wives Tales. Be sure to thoroughly clean your shotgun after the rock salt test.

 

[TRAP55]

1965, I don't know what the load was, or what it was shot out of, but I still have the scars on the back of my legs, butt, and lower back. Halfway over a barb wire fence leaving someplace I shouldn't have been. Grampa cleaned me up, and told my Mom the holes in my shirt and Levis were from the barb wire. He didn't want my Dad to find out, because he knew what my Dad would do to the old man that shot me. Never did find out how my Grampa knew how to doctor rock salt wounds.

 

[93formee]

OWT....Old Wives Tales. Be sure to thoroughly clean your shotgun after the rock salt test.

Now you are attacking old wives? Or just their tails? Cheese and Crackers 🧐

 

[93formee]

1965, I don't know what the load was, or what it was shot out of, but I still have the scars on the back of my legs, butt, and lower back. Halfway over a barb wire fence leaving someplace I shouldn't have been. Grampa cleaned me up, and told my Mom the holes in my shirt and Levis were from the barb wire. He didn't want my Dad to find out, because he knew what my Dad would do to the old man that shot me. Never did find out how my Grampa knew how to doctor rock salt wounds.

I would have to assume that whatever salt that you cannot dig out must be soaked out, and I know that stings.

 

[Grizzley1]

Rock salt, the 1890s less lethal rounds.

 

[Waltermoe]

OWT....Old Wives Tales. Be sure to thoroughly clean your shotgun after the rock salt test.

I thought about that after I got through testing, so I shot a couple regular rounds to clear the unburned powder out of the barrel then scrubbed the barrel out.
I should have tried loading up a couple shells with soy beans and tried that, probably would have shown better results than rock salt.

 

[one3]

I heard that many times. Never believed it. I, compared it to buck shot. One would have to be really foolish to shoot someone with it.

 

[ysacres]

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I should have tried loading up a couple shells with soy beans

Hey, that's a great idea I think garbanzo beans are little rounder than soybeans. If you soak them in water for a few hours, they expand. That might be a little easier on the bad guy, because they are hard as steel. Less corrosive than salt. and in the end they're edible.
If anybody wants to defend the castle with them......

For sale: One quart jar of dried chickpeas.
Please send $6 For a quart of beans. plus $4.00 shipping to:
Y's Acres Farms
Double ought LN
Wawawai WA

 

[tedwitt]

Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,I got a piece in my back and two in my right leg.
Yes it burns like heck for about a week. Mom dug the pieces out but it still stung.

 

[Pulsarnc]

I have used popcorn in loads to shoot varmints that I wanted to run ohg but not kill. Worked like a champ.

 

[4205raymond]

I have heard tales of Rabbit hunters in central Virginia shooting beagles (Sometimes hounds) with rock salt at a distance to break them from picking up a Whitetails scent and dropping a rabbits trail. Sounds cruel but I suppose if you are a hound or beagle you don't forget that stinging butt. My great uncle Jake had a Blue Tic hound that he mixed with the Beagles. If that rabbit crossed a deer scent trail it took days to get the hound back found walking along a dirt road the next county over. Course my Uncle Jake loved that Blue Tic and would never do such a thing. He called him his jump dog. He had a couple of little English Beagles that were great at working a briar patch to get the rabbit out. The tip of their tail was always bloody when they came out.----------------------------Ray

 

[Waltermoe]

Hey, that's a great idea I think garbanzo beans are little rounder than soybeans. If you soak them in water for a few hours, they expand. That might be a little easier on the bad guy, because they are hard as steel. Less corrosive than salt. and in the end they're edible.
If anybody wants to defend the castle with them......

For sale: One quart jar of dried chickpeas.
Please send $6 For a quart of beans. plus $4.00 shipping to:
Y's Acres Farms
Double ought LN
Wawawai WA



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Well now you got me thinking. I will load some shells up today and see what happens, it’s got to be better than rock salt.

If it works out maybe we will have to get a patent on these rounds and sell them as non lethal pest rounds. 🤔

 

[CapnSlow]

Well now you got me thinking. I will load some shells up today and see what happens, it’s got to be better than rock salt.

If it works out maybe we will have to get a patent on these rounds and sell them as non lethal pest rounds. 🤔

Looking forward to this test! Might as well test all kinds of beans while your at it: garbanzo, soy, pinto, lima, etc. You can probably skip the pork&beans, though.

 

[sharps4590]

I bet those Lima beans will fly straight and offer a good pattern.....

 

[BlackEagle]

If it works out maybe we will have to get a patent on these rounds and sell them as non lethal pest rounds.

They might qualify over here--seems like lead pellets are outlawed over here.

I read where someone loaded his black powder pistol with fragments of a broken clay pipe. That was about 400 years ago.

 

[Alpo]

I read where someone loaded his black powder pistol with fragments of a broken clay pipe. That was about 400 years ago.

I remember reading a novel about the Mexican War, where the Mexicans were firing goat turds. They were round, they were the right size. And they didn't have any lead.

I thought that was kind of neat when I was 12 or 13 and read the book, but I somehow don't think it would work.

I recall an episode of Daniel Boone - the old Fess Parker Ed Ames TV show - where boonsboro had been attacked by the Shawnee (never the cherokee, never the Chickasaw. Always the Shawnee) and they had run out of lead to fight them off with. So they were melting down their pewter dishes to cast bullets to shoot at the Indians.

But since pewter is so much lighter than the same volume of lead, I think they would have missed more than they hit. Made a good TV episode though.

 

[Grizzley1]

I recall an episode of Daniel Boone - the old Fess Parker Ed Ames TV show - where boonsboro had been attacked by the Shawnee (never the cherokee, never the Chickasaw. Always the Shawnee) and they had run out of lead to fight them off with. So they were melting down their pewter dishes to cast bullets to shoot at the Indians.

But since pewter is so much lighter than the same volume of lead, I think they would have missed more than they hit. Made a good TV episode though.

I don't see why pewter would be inaccurate because it's lighter, higher velocity maybe. We moderns shoot solid copper slugs in muzzle loaders in states that have banned lead and copper is lighter than lead and it's accurate.