Here's a tip that is worth its weight in gold. Take a dozen or so shot gun shells, and instead of loading them with buckshot, load em up with rock salt. Yeah the same kind you use to de-ice your walkway. This will affectively maim your chosen target and cause blinding pain, but will leave your drifter very much alive, saving you all the time digging a whole and buying lime. Especially fun is knowing that the salt will disolve in the wound deep beneath the skin.
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someone give this man some karma!