12 gauge sea salt shells

[hemiguy55]

is there such thing as a shotgun shell that has rock salt or sea salt in the shell as opposed to BB's or a slug?

[RayPDA]

Rock salt shells always reminds me of a scene from a particular James Bond film...

Oh:

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot33.htm

[hemiguy55]

looks like you gotta be pretty close to the bad guy if you wana inflict pain.

[InGrAM]

Rock salt shells always reminds me of a scene from a particular James Bond film...

Oh:

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot33.htm

Good read, thanks.

[CaptBuzz]

I remember my mom loading up an old Benjamin .22 pellet gun with rock salt to shoot a dog that wouldn't let her get to her truck. Now I'm not sure if it actually stung the dog or if it was simply the *pop* that got him to run.

[Bill Carson]

The sell them at the same shop that got them porcelain Glocks.

[gatesbox]

Roll your own, might be more interesting to make your own bean bag rounds, but I still don't know why. I don't point guns at things I don't want to destroy.

[Splash One]

From the box o' truth link posted earlier:

"I've also heard that some folks used to use this load to run off "bums" and beggars in the old days, during the Depression."

Every thing I've seen about salt shells is that they're mostly used to "scare off" trespassers and the like without hurting them too badly. They're not meant to kill or wound the target too badly. Not something I would want to be using if someone wanted to do me bodily harm.

[saki302]

You would probably have to roll your own using a black powder charge. In the early 90s, a friend and I rolled our own by dumping the shot charge of loaded smokeless ammo. It didn't work too well (slt is too light)- it left a bunch of unburnt powder in the barrel, and went of with a 'poof' instead of a BANG. I think the light weight doesn't build enough pressure for smokeless to work.

-Dave

[BigDogatPlay]

is there such thing as a shotgun shell that has rock salt or sea salt in the shell as opposed to BB's or a slug?

You'll have to load your own, but why? There is no reasonable use for such shells, IMO.

[repubconserv]

Is your name Dean Winchester? Do you fight ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings

[FLIGHT762]

You would probably have to roll your own using a black powder charge. In the early 90s, a friend and I rolled our own by dumping the shot charge of loaded smokeless ammo. It didn't work too well (slt is too light)- it left a bunch of unburnt powder in the barrel, and went of with a 'poof' instead of a BANG. I think the light weight doesn't build enough pressure for smokeless to work.

-Dave

I remember trying this many years ago and got the same result.

I believe that if you used black powder, you would get a lot more velocity out of the rock salt, probably would pepper you good. Probably something used in the black powder days.

Just like smelling a gun to see if it had been recently shot. Something from the black powder days. You're not going to be able to smell a smokeless firearm to see if it had been shot , if you can, the TSA could use you.

I laugh when I see it occasionally on a TV show where a Detective will pickup a revolver, open the cylinder, smell it and say "It's been recently fired".

[CSACANNONEER]

When my dad was about 10, his cousins took him out to raid a watermelon patch. Let's just say that my dad learned what rock salt out of a 12g felt like. So, yea, it's been used for years.

[Chaos47]

You gotta get them at your local Q Branch. But do remember to bring them back in one piece this time 007!

[Peter W Bush]

You'll have to load your own, but why? There is no reasonable use for such shells, IMO.

What if you want to scare off bums?