[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

A captive bolt pistol does kill, when the dog dispatch house was in the fire station yard, I've used a captive bolt on more than one occasion, when the chap who operated the electric chamber was off, and a young copper woild be dithering and missing, I'd take it off him reload, and do it proper, the one at the cop shop used .22 blank cartridges, and the bolt shot out over 2 inches, some of the bigger ones for larger animals used .38 blanks.
During WW1 the foot sloggers in the Army Vet Corps, were issued with .38 caliber revolvers, to put wounded horses out of their misery, that ammo was specially made for the job, and stayed inside the horses head, middle of the fore head about 3 inch above the eyes.

I used to repair the electric chamber at the back of the cop shop when I worked for Accrington (not Hyndburn) Corporation