Two problems with that. First, it looks wrong. Birdshot is very small, so the holes would be smaller, not to mention unevenly distributed.
Second, that would happen at maybe 20 yards or further. Inside a room, there's no time for the shot column to come apart, so he'd have a single 12-ga hole in his head. Movies get shotguns wrong, and they spread out way, way too fast.
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bhilburn
11 years ago
It might have been filled with rock salt. It was Randy Quaid's character who said it was bird shot.
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shoobe01-1
11 years ago
First, I'd love to know where everyone in movies gets rock salt loads. You can't buy them. And we saw the shells, didn't we? They looked factory. But assume you are right:
Shot column is still something you can't get around. This has a shooting test of it:
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot33_3.htm
The shot column at inside-a-room ranges is still one. Even if the atrocious ballistics of the "shot" spread some, there's a massive amount of it and a wad still traveling as one. It would not be a neat peppering and one part would have at least a shallow but notable hole around the size of a 12 ga barrel in it. Maybe he'd walk away from it, but he wouldn't look like that.
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bhilburn
11 years ago
Most people that I knew that had them made them themselves with rock salt, from birdshot shells mostly. It's not terribly hard to do if you have the time and inclination for such activity.
It really doesn't matter to me about the ballistics of the shot in the scene in question. It was a movie, not a factual crime drama/documentary. But to purists I can see where they can get a bit perturbed about things like that. I get the same way about war movies.
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