Shooting Marbles?? Is that smart?

[Thagomizer]

I remember reading a long time ago of an English hunter in Africa using a stack of coins that just fit the bore to dispatch some beastie after running out of lead balls.

 

[Sun City]

Now I understand why the country is considered ‘nuts’!

 

[Eutycus]

I wished I had saved it, but I read an account from before F&I war of a village beset by a bear. No one had any roundball for some reason or another and someone took a marble from a child, loaded it up and shot the bear. According to the account the bear did not survive.

I hope that's a true story but it could be just that, a story? They seem to be stretching it a might. About the marble killing the bear, I suppose it's possible but more than likely not a 1 shot or instant kill. The part that strikes me is the village waiting till the bear comes menacing around to load the gun. It seems like the "defenders" of that village would have at least one gun already loaded for any sort of attack. But to be fair the village was "beset". Attack was not used.

 

[Heyyou48307]

Well we're not