"Maxprop" wrote in

Then I'd load up a bunch of exploding 12ga slugs the old
buffler
hunter way. Drill out the end of the slug and insert a
..22cal rimfire
blank in the hole.
Mark E. Williams

What one needs for repelling pirates are something like
the "big guns" that
hunters used to use to hunt waterfowl on the Chesapeake
about 150 years ago.
One shot might convince the pirates it's not worth the
risk. One shot used
to kill between 50 and 100 ducks or geese.


They have some of those ''big guns'' on display at the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, in St. Michaels MD, which I
sail down to occasionally. Impressive guns.

Scotty