Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - V

[Son of Cain]

Regarding shotgun shells, you do get what's referred to as solid slug, which is as the name suggests one solid cartridge, though considering military forces have been using shotguns it's more likely they are military issue. With pellets, you get buckshot, birdshot et, different sizes of pellet.

As a personal story, I do voluntary work in an Oxfam bookshop, one day at the bottom of a big box of old books was a metal box with about half a dozen rifle cartridges of two different sizes and the same with pistol rounds. Had to phone management then contact the local police.

I see Ryan is still a slime all.

You do indeed get solid slugs for shotguns but they are not in common use. At the range that Robert got hit he would have been blown half way across the street and the hole in the door would have been much much bigger if this was what was used. The whole idea of shotguns is that you do not have to aim it accurately as the shot spreads as the distance increases, the force of the shot also decreases, so the chances of survival increases the further away you are from the gun. But in Robert's case even if the gun was loaded with birdshot it would have made a mess of him and he would have known about it imediately, instead of walking a few paces before realizing he was hit. If the shotgun was loaded with rocksalt he would probably been OK.The same goes for Shona's box, the side of that would have been peppered with shot, but it might absorbed the force of the shot and she could have survived relatively unhurt. But it was difficult to tell how far away she was from Derek. I still did not find it very convincing.