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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7561725" data-attributes="member: 4937">As largely ineffectual as weapons.While there have been plenty of attempts to improve on the rifled slug and buckshot, there are still no loads I'm aware of that are more effective and reliable.  Dragon's breath in particular isn't really designed to be a weapon, but rather a pyrotechnics show.  You might as well take a Roman Candle and fire it at the target.   Damage to unprotected eyes is possible, but based on the video's I've seen I'd expect even a 100% cotton long-sleeved t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans to provide adequate protection except at very close range.  It will ignite straw and other highly inflammable objects, but that's about the limit of what I'd expect.The basic problem is that a shotgun shell has some very hard limits in terms of weight and volume, and some of the things you can do with a large artillery shell just aren't feasible to scale down to the scale of a shotgun shell.  And even large artillery shells have better things to do than put on light shows.  The closet I can think over to the 'dragon breath' shells are the anti-aircraft shells that were developed for the Yamato's 18" guns, and they were basically gimmicks that were never successfully deployed and and probably wouldn't have done any good if they were.</blockquote>