What size rock salt granules is best?

Not looking for eff bee eye penetration ballistics, we want shock & awe-dammit-that-burns terminal effect.

Any commercial sellers for non-reloader home owners?

We're looking for this kind of kinetic energy!

I’ve been around guns, loads, reloading & shotguns for many years. I strongly believe the idea of rock salt in shotgun shells is more fiction than fact.

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I strongly believe the idea of rock salt in shotgun shells is more fiction than fact.

Here's some in fiction.



There are lots of apocryphal stories of farmers loading rock salt and shooting at people who stole watermelons, ears of corn, etc. It was probably easier with folded-up paper shells than modern machine-crimped plastic ones. I don't think this would fly today, as it is only meant to inflict minor tissue damage, but major pain. Put another way, if the situation didn't require deadly force, it didn't justify shooting at all.

I know this is meant to be tongue in cheek about the train wreck of the other thread, but responding to a home invasion with anything less than double ought is less than ideal.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
I’ve been around guns, loads, reloading & shotguns for many years. I strongly believe the idea of rock salt in shotgun shells is more fiction than fact.

Well, it happens.
I know of a couple young punk kids that had to pick rock salt out of each other's back side in the 60s.
It made a change in their behavior.

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I know of a couple young punk kids that had to pick rock salt out of each other's back side in the 60s.

You'll get in big trouble today for shooting at somebody who's running away.

Shoot at someone with a deadly weapon, and we’d better have dam’ good justification.

https://www.theboxotruth.com/t...lt-in-a-shotgun.357/



"I obtained a box of genuine Morton's Ice Cream Rock Salt.

I will use some 12 Gauge Heavy Field Loads, which are loaded with 1 1/4 ounce of #6 shot.

First, I open them up and pour out the lead shot."
Lessons learned:

At 20 yards, you might scare a dog or some other animal, but you sure wouldn't break the skin.
At 10 yards, you might break the skin with a couple of grains, but nothing very serious.
At 12 feet, you might get the desired effect, if the desired effect is to "burn" the target with the rock salt.
At 4 feet, you might cause a wound requiring a visit to a hospital for a human, or maybe death to a small animal.
Movie plots that show someone "burning" a bad guy at across-the-yard distances are hogwash.

When one reads through the hunting regs often strange types of shotgun shells are mentioned, one being ‘cut shells’. The lore reaches back to depression era methods to attempt to make your shotshell perform like a slug, try.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com...ls-shotgun-nonsense/

Would a garlic-filled shotshell work on vampires?

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Originally posted by jljones:
I know this is meant to be tongue in cheek about the train wreck of the other thread, but responding to a home invasion with anything less than double ought is less than ideal.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Shoot at someone with a deadly weapon, and we’d better have dam’ good justification.

Comments like these make me wish this forum had a “like” button.

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Originally posted by egregore:
Would a garlic-filled shotshell work on vampires?

Use garlic salt for a multipurpose load.

Remington once loaded plastic #4s.
More consistent than rock salt. Might sting as far as 10 yards, potentially deadly at 10 feet.

there are many 'less lethal' options in shot gun shells currently available. I happen to like the rubber balls, but there are probably at least twenty other choices.

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Originally posted by Jim Watson:
Remington once loaded plastic #4s.
More consistent than rock salt. Might sting as far as 10 yards, potentially deadly at 10 feet.

Interesting. What in the hell were those marketed for? “Lead free” to use for bird hunting?