Jesse James Shot To Death with Seated Dimes Tomorrow Night...

Gemini

Hi yo Silver!...I just saw part of a preview of a show due to air on the Discovery Channel tomorrow night.

They were showing a shotgun shell being loaded with Seated Dimes and were saying something about this is how the outlaw Jesse James might have met his fate.

They also showed a long coat suspended and about to receive a blast from a shotgun loaded with the seated dimes ammo but you will have to tune in and see the effects.
(Oh coins and guns I can't wait)

Edited to add: (thats Tuesday night)

dbldie55

You mean regular lead shot wouldn't be enough. Ugh. Works for everything I shoot at (with a shot gun that is).

mgoodm3

Dimes would cause a lot of tissue damage but wouldn't penetrate deeply. Probably wouldn't be pretty. Would make a big ugly hole.

dbldie55

I worked with a guy that wanted to load shells with dust. He was sort of wierd. I now have his shotgun shell reloader in my garage. Maybe dimes are not that far out there.

Gemini

Load shot gun shells with dust?...maybe gold dust?...
wait till the Lone Ranger hears about this.

1234567890

Poor dimes...

relayer

This is Robert Ford, who shot Jesse James.

I never heard of a shotgun being used, or dime bullets

Gemini

Me neither relayer but they have my curiosity piqued so I guess I am going to have to watch the show.

(maybe they will follow up the show with a Bullet Aucton)

ElectricEye

This one makes me smile:

12 GAUGE BOLO ROUNDS
THIS ROUND IS LOADED WITH TWO LEAD BALLS TIED TOGETHER WITH A 5 INCH FLEXIBLE STEEL WIRE. BEST USED FOR LONG-RANGE DEFENSE.
HV-0621

Link

the dime load shells are available, just not practical ~

Gemini

Very strange ammos Electric Eye...
Wait until the Ahnold gets a load of these crazy ammos...

JoyofCollecting

For a limited time only.....you too can own one of only three seated dimes recovered from Jesse James body after his death!!!

See my sleaze bay auction!!!! Ends tomorrow!!!!


This is not a hoax........ACG has certified this dime as coming from Jesse's body!!!!!!

barberlover

Now kids, don't try this at home. Only licensed proffesionals are aloud to ruin nice collector coins this way.

Besides shooting bad guys we also offer coin cleaning, dipping, brushing, holeing, & coin jewlery cut outs.

Les

Trooper

My guess is..
If dimes were used for a close range shot, it would be just like a slug.
No time for the dimes to disperse and slow down because of their areodynamics.

Ever load your own shotgun shells with 6 shot and forget to cut the slits in the wad cup?
Well all day you'd be wondering how come your missing the pheasents at 30 yards until you
you hit one and there's nothing left..

I'm sure it would be an interesting show. I'll watch it.

Tom

Conder101

I only caught part of the commercial in passing but I thought they were talking about someone having threatened to shoot Billy the Kid with the dimes not Jesse James.

Frankly with how quickly the dimes would slow down and spread in flight I wouldn't expect such a load to be particularly lethal unless the barrel was practically right up against the victim. Sounds more like an 1880's version of a bean bag gun. Packs a wallop but doesn't do real damage. On mythbusters they used a 22 cal rifle to fire a lincoln cent into a gelatin coated skull. The cent cut the gelatin but didn't even crack the skull.

anoldgoat

Rock salt in that shotgun shell. Won't see that peckerwood stealin' your watermelons no more.

flaminio

Not Jesse James -- Billy the Kid. And let's hope they don't use real Seated Dimes for the test firings!

JohnZ

And let's hope they don't use real Seated Dimes for the test firings!

Yeah. Barbers would do just as well.

shuckins

There was a movie some years back in which Billy the Kid shot a Deputy during a jail break with a double barrel shotgun loaded with dimes. It showed the dimes turning in slow motion as they tore into the body. Excellent special effect for the time. I believe it starred Kris Kristoferson.

CoinAddict

The show is coming on right now.

Dog97

I bet the dimes would throw a large pattern and be spinning and flying very erraticaly. the only advantade is that a 12 gauge shell will hold about 24 dimes as compared with 12 00 buckshot. Probably be a very effective fletchett round up to 15' or so.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>There was a movie some years back in which Billy the Kid shot a Deputy during a jail break with a double barrel shotgun loaded with dimes. It showed the dimes turning in slow motion as they tore into the body. Excellent special effect for the time. I believe it starred Kris Kristoferson. >>



This was one of the Young Guns movies with Emilio Estevez, I believe. Not sure if it was the first one or the sequel. As I recall, the movie had Estevez's character (Billy the Kid) firing the shotgun loaded with a dozen dimes, and saying, "that's the best $1.20 I ever spent", or something like that. It's been a few years since I saw it. There may have been a similar scene in a Kris Kristofferson movie, too.

Gemini

Oooops...so sorry I mentioned the wrong guy.
It wasn't Jesse James after all but Billy the Kid...well at least I got the outlaw part right.

Veep

The show was on tonight. It was about several theories on the shooting of Billy the Kid. They test shot a 10 gauge shot gun loaded with 18 silver dimes (they showed at least one being Seated). They shot a side of pork that they put a cotton shirt on. The dimes didn't do much damage. Most of them just bounced off. This appeared to be from a range of about 15 feet. Then, they tried the same thing with regular buckshot and it blew some pretty impressive holes in carcass.

Conder101

So I was right, not particularly lethal. More like an 1880's bean bag gun