Random Question...Americans please.

[starrylizard]

At fairs, show grounds, circuses... that sort of thing. You know when they have those games where you have to shoot, like, little tin ducks to win big stuffed toys? usually in American movies the big tough guys play and win the toy for their chick.

What do Americans call those games?

Is it something like a shooting gallery?

Also, why is the game hard? Is it because the guns are not aligned properly or something?


It's for a fic. Thanks guys!

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, rock salt hurts like hell.

Farmers in my mom's day used to load shotguns full of rock salt and use them on the kids who tipped outhouses over.

One time my mom and sisters tipped over and outhouse, only to find the farmer in it, with his pants around his knees. Oops! My mom and the older sisters ran, but her younger sister was rather plump and got it in the rump as she climbed the fence.

From my mom's description, the rock salt scatters in a spread. Grandma had to get tweezers and pick rock salt out of her sister's butt and the back of her thighs. She was sobbing because it hurt. Talk about salt in the wound.

The exploding happens depending on what it hits. You hit rock or wood, it explodes, because salt is softer. You hit flesh, it gets embedded.

WG makes a guess on the distance of the salt rounds: "20-30 yards? I'm not sure."

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Ouch! That would definitely sting. :P

*hits google calculator* 25 yards = 22ish meters, so that's pretty good. Thanks! :)