On Oct 29, 2:12*am, Dennis wrote:
wrote:
:I found this site with 12 gage pepper shells for loading into a hand
:held flare gun:
:http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/catalo...12-gauge-speci.
..
:This would avoid buying a "real" gun for defending ones sailboat from
irates. *Thoughts?

If you want to **** them off so badly that they rape you to death this
is probably a good tactic.

* * * * Hm, being gay isn't part of the pirate image. *:-) * I thought rum,
buggery and the lash was the British navy, which some became pirates to
escape. *However, these are Somali pirates... *"For children, a woman; for
pleasure, a boy..."

* * *The use of nonlethal weapons against those with lethal weapons is
rarely a good idea.

* * * * I recall it recently did work; some ship with a sonic weapon
succeeded in driving pirates off with it. *

Dennis

I think there was a bit more to it than that. It was a big, fast
ship which used the weapon, along with its size and speed, to evade
the attack....and still got hit with an RPG round. I can't imagine
those tactics would be as successful with a smaller, slower
craft....at least not as effective as a couple .50 cals or Mk-19s.