Meplat
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My late grandfather used to keep 50-pound bags of rock salt in the garage (for melting ice, of course), but today I wouldn't have a clue where to buy it. And my local Dick's Sporting Goods is always out of stock on double-ought rock salt shells.
<sigh> This whole "rock salt" thing and the stuff I see here on the board makes me wonder how many believe in the four rules.
Once worked with a man...good guy...had a daughter who married a not so good guy...she had a child by him, things went south, and she divorced the bum. Moved a trailer in next to her dad's place. Late one night, got an hysterical phone call from the daughter, grabbed his Remington 1100, and headed next door to defend his daughter and grandson. Bum had broken out the front window, reached in, grabbed the grandson's arm (breaking it in the process) and was attempting to pull the child through the window when Pops rounded the corner of the trailer. Pops never hesitated, threw the shotgun up, and unloaded a round into his former son-in-law's fat ass. He thought he had a round of buckshot. Turned out to be birdshot. As Pops was grateful for until the day he died in a truck wreck a couple of years later, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING TO PROTECT HIS GRANDCHILD. He once confided in me that the sounds of that man's screams when the shot tore into his ass haunted his dreams every night.
Load 'em up with rock salt. "Pepper" a kid with salt. And pray, pray, pray that you have the correct round in the chamber. You can find the rock salt over by the supplies for making homemade ice cream in your local grocer's, if you are willing to ignore the four rules.
Personally, if it ain't worth killing over, I ain't pointing a gun at no one, no matter what it's loaded with. And walking across a lawn, prior provocation or not does not qualify as a "killing offense". Anyone who goes the rock salt route is begging for trouble. Sting him...piss him off...how you going to prove that what you fired was rock salt and not a clean miss? Can you say "aggravated assault with a firearm"? Can you say "I love you, you big hairy guy"? Chances are, you'll get the opportunity. If you are lucky, your cellmate will be gentle with you.