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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 days agoI did not know an actual anti drone, net round existed!
Not especially useful against drones, nor open warfare, there are also less than lethal rubber rounds…
… and a self contained taser round:
forgottenweapons.com/taser-x12-xrep-a-taser-in-a-…
I don’t know if the xrep is still actually manufactured though.
Oh right! Dragon’s breath! Illegal in half the country!
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
People have been basically homebrewing shot gun shells since shotguns have existed. Everything from flachetes, to bolos, to XREP - even idiots that have shoved a shell full of .17 hmr rounds to see what happens. I 100% know that homebrewed anti drone shells exist and range from tying fishing live around pellets, to just launching a rope.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Oh yeah, I was trying to stick to retailed products, but yes, homebrew shotgun rounds have been around for basically as long as shotguns.
Another kind of homebrew shot is coin shot:
www.alloutdoor.com/…/shooting-pennies-shotgun/
I’ve heard anecdotally that people have been doing that for quite a while.
frezik@midwest.social 2 days ago
There’s an old story that cowboys would load nickles. It ends up being something like $1.25 in nickles, which would be enough to spend the evening with several prostitutes at the time. So probably no unless they were in a real pinch.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
So I have no actual source on any kind of coinshot…
But why not use half pennies?
…wikipedia.org/…/Half_cent_(United_States_coin)
Yes, the US used to have half pennies.
Imagine buying an apple for $0.03½
Anyway, they stopped being minted in 1857, but that’s still within the early timeframe of ‘The West’, and I’d bet they were still used in circulation for another decade or two.
That’d be cheaper than using nickels, haha.