Kid Amnesiac

In my new thing, on the inspiration from Kill Bill Vol. 2, one of my characters gets shot with a shotgun full of rock salt.

I do know this much about rock salt:

-It doesn't kill you.

And that's it!

I was just wondering:

-Does it break the skin? (I can't really trust Kill Bill on realism)
-Can it infect?
-How bad does it hurt? (lol, hopefully some of you guys have tipped some cows)

safari invasion

Well, after seeing Kill Bill vol. 2, I can honestly say that it would probably hurt pretty bad. The movie was pretty out there when it came to realism, but I would imagine the pain that the bride was in was probably authentic.

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Pyro

Shoot yourself and find out. Or get a drunk guy and shoot him. When he is not drunk ask him how much it hurts, and oh yea! Take him to the hospital. -_-
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Pendulum

1. yes it can break the skin.
2. Well, it's salt so probly not
3. Like hell!

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Airborneguy

We have a cemetary by me that used to shoot intruders with that stuff:

1. DEFINATELY breaks skin

2. I don't know about infection, but for your story you could always have it intentionally tainted with something....

3. Hurts REALLY bad. It is travelling very close to the speed of a bullet. It hurts, it swells, it SUCKS!

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Leapord

..... Do you speak from personal experience, Airborneguy?

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Airborneguy

Not me fortunately, but more than a few of my friends described it well enough!

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Ozmandius

Airborneguy is definately on the money here. But I would stress one point about the pain factor. It not only hurts, but hurts worse than a normal gunshot because it is SALT. Anyone remember the old addage about "adding salt to a wound". There's a reason for it, and it isn't to make the booboo better. Basically the idea behind a rocksalt shotgun round is that it is less lethal and more painful. A definate hillbilly favorite.

Oz