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Rock Salt from a shotgun
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12 Gauge Rock Salt Ammunition – Gum Gully Provision
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gjgalligan
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If you was to take a look at my butt you might see some small scars from a rock salt load. I was lucky as I was on the fringe of the pattern, my buddy caught most of the load.
Hurts like H#%&!
Hurts like H#%&!
THE PILGRIM
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Oh yes.
Usually a warning to stay out of somebody’s Watermelon Patch.
That could explain all those old Farmhouse Shotguns with Rusted out barrels.
Usually a warning to stay out of somebody’s Watermelon Patch.
That could explain all those old Farmhouse Shotguns with Rusted out barrels.
Unless I am being attacked by a horde or snails I don't see the need for salt in a shotgun tasked with self defense. Birdshot at the very least.
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Knew several farmers that kept double barrels loaded with rock salt shot. Never knew any guys that got shot with it but heard stories from the farmers that were LOL funny. Grew up with a black guy out in the country, his Dad “ had been a moonshiner”. Anyway some punks from town would come out and bust country road mailboxes with ball bats. My black friends dad stuffed his mail box with dynamite!!!, my friend took it out before it got dark. Lots of crazy funny stories…
Ivan the Butcher
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In the Spring of 1968, a girl in my brother's High School class, had problems with a stray dog trying to breed her pedigree dog. My brother took two 12 gauge hunting loads and removed the lead shot and replaced it with Rock salt. On Monday she walked up to him and slapped his face, then burst out crying, The dog she shot had died. When ask how far away she was when she shot the dog? 5 or 6 was the answer! 5 or 6 what? Feet was the answer. The gathering crowd burst into laughter.
That is how my brother had to get a date to the Junior Prom at the last minute. And that is how I got a sister-in-law two and a half years later! You might say, A totally different type of shotgun wedding!
I am so glad he married the smarter one!
Ivan
That is how my brother had to get a date to the Junior Prom at the last minute. And that is how I got a sister-in-law two and a half years later! You might say, A totally different type of shotgun wedding!
I am so glad he married the smarter one!
Ivan
There was this extremely crotchety old man that owned a farm where exit 23 of the New York Thruway is now in Albany NY. He would most definitely shoot rock salt at people that did not belong on his land stealing produce. It was well know by us kids and in fact many older people told us to stay off his land. His land was Eminent Domained by the state about 1956 and he went to parts unknown.
Of course today he would not get away with it but back in the 1950s he did.
Geno44
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Hey, it worked for Lucas and Micah in a "Rifleman" episode.
That was the version the quasi-delinquent kids on my block told. I was naive enough to assume it had to be true; never considered it could just be an attempt at getting the suburban middle-class version of "street cred."
double-dipper
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I've herd that story but, don't if it was true or not.
Old man Kaulb's house was on the other side of a country club golf course. The story was if your golf ball landed in his front yard you better not go get it or he would shoot you with rock salt. I never did hear of anyone getting shot but, every time I drove past his place there were 20 golf balls on the front lawn. That was 40-50 years ago when I still drive by Old man Kaulb's place I look to see if there are golf ball on the front lawn.
Old man Kaulb's house was on the other side of a country club golf course. The story was if your golf ball landed in his front yard you better not go get it or he would shoot you with rock salt. I never did hear of anyone getting shot but, every time I drove past his place there were 20 golf balls on the front lawn. That was 40-50 years ago when I still drive by Old man Kaulb's place I look to see if there are golf ball on the front lawn.
It's true, my late grandpa used to do it. He used it mostly for unwelcome critters on the farm. Said he could hear yelps from "fearless" coyotes until they were out of earshot. Always had a smile on his face whenever he told those stories...
When we still lived on the farm in Alderwood Manor, WA, a neighbor up the road kept rock salt in a shotgun. I don't know if he ever shot any of the kids there abouts but I was witness to him shooting a stray dog. Must have been 20 yards away and never got any closer. He used his 30-30 to kill a rabid dog that was chasing his son.
When I was very young my brother & I attempted to load a couple shells with rock salt. We dumped the lead pellets out, replaced it with rock salt and re-crimped it. The shells did not function - just went poof. We speculated that more mass was required than the light-weight rock salt provided, to create a bit of back pressure / resistance for the gun powder to explode. My hypothesis might be wrong why they didn't go bang, but nevertheless, they didn't go bang.
True. Ole man Blakely use to guard his apple orchard with a side by side full of rock salt. We got "peppered" more than once trying to get our fill of apples and the dog got a double blast one day. Stoopid days of our youth. Today they would throw the guy in jail...and take away the key.
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