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Rock salt turns to dust on impact. Loading rock salt is an old wive's tale. Tried it myself. Dust.
The well respected Paul Harrell tested this. You can skip the control tests, but the shot wad did more damage.
Just for giggles I loaded tiny bits of gravel with a black powder load. Sounded like I tossed gravel at the pallet. And as with the example above, the wad did more damage than the load. :)
Neat! Thank you. I always appreciate having my ignorance diminished
Growing up I was told this by my sister-in-law's dad. He might have actually believed it, too, since he wasn't the sort that made up stories for kids. (Like Santa. He wouldn't just come out and say Santa is make believe, but if asked he refused to lie about it) My uncle also talked about rock salt loads, and was a gunsmith, but he was the sort that would lie to kids for fun.
I will edit my above comment and highlight your reply