Rock Salt Loads?

[CWL]

Anyone have a verifiable story about someone actually using rock salt in their shotgun?

I have heard and read a few yarns about farmer X chasing kids outta watermelon patch after tanning their backsides with a blast of rocksalt, but doubt this to be true.

I'd imagine that anyone keeping a shottie around would need to feed it with real loads in case of defense or food. Also salt down old barrels just sounds like disaster.

 

[mete]

Never shoot anyone with anything without total justification. Otherwise you end up in jail and/or sued.

 

[Smoke]

I have used rock salt loads on cattle and dogs.

ANd yes I was justified in all cases.

 

[Dave McCracken]

At about age 6, myself and a friend got peppered with salt while stealing tomatoes. Scared me half to death and cured me of taking other folks stuff. Pop was working night shift asd a game warden. He heard me out while Mom fixed me up, told me it was what I deserved for stealing, and then went to the gardener's house and broke his face. He thought it was too severe for a 6 year old, and dangerous to boot.

Burned like beestings. No permanent damage.

Definitely NOT recommended.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Damn.

I'd never touch a tomato again, if someone had pulled a freaking 12 bore on me for doing so...

Wild times, hey? My dad used to tell me stories of him and his friends (reckelessly) shooting their .22s around the neighborhood when he was a kid. Said it was a miracle none of them ever got killed...

 

[another okie]

There are rubber ball loads available, either one ball or 15, which would probably do the job better today. Salt down a barrel sounds like a lousy idea to me.

 

[TrapperReady]

My dad had some small scars on his left calf from getting hit (while stealing from someone's garden) in the early '30s. The Germans did a similar thing with a rifle round and some shrapnel some 12 years later.

I've personally heard several stories about the use of rock salt, and in each case it was from people who I consider absolutely reliable, and involved someone protecting their food source during the Depression. Considering the lack of lawsuits and neighborhood "restrictive covenents" during that time, coupled with the need to feed ones family, I don't find this at all surprising. Someone trying it today would have to have more than a few rocks loose.

 

[Rat-30]

ON livestock

My father loved to tell the story of my grandfather peppering cattle behinds with rock salt-shot during the 40's and 50's... you see, my grandfather was a share-cropper, and the cattle were literally 'eating into the profits'...

Best,

 

[C.R.Sam]

Never shoot anyone with anything without total justification. Otherwise you end up in jail and/or sued. ...Mete.

Amen.

Tis use of a deadly weapon.

Sam

 

[gearbox]

Since cartridge fired tools are prohibited, will spud guns be acceptable?

 

[HeavyHaul]

Rock salt from a 16 ga. patterns nicely. I've got the scars on my back to prove it. And I've never entered an apple orchard without permission again. Course that was many years ago. Dad said I had it coming. He was a Patrolman at the time. He went and had a talk with the gentlman that shot me. That's how I found out it was a 16 ga. And yea, hurts like bee stings. Mom picked out most of it then set me in a warm bathtub to soak out the rest.

Bill

 

[DragonRider]

And nobody mentions 'A View to a Kill' with Bond shooting 2 guys who both get up and he ask's 'What's in this' the reply, 'Rock Salt'

 

[Dorian]

Southern SC in uh.... 95-96... Went out cow tipping with some buddies.

My first and last time. Didn't know at the time that it could potentially kill the animals....

Did find out how salt from a shotgun in the butt felt though. Sleeping on my stomach for days.

Didn't tell our group leaders cause we didn't wann get in trouble.