Defensive ammunition such as buckshot, slugs and combination loads are common. Rubber slugs or rubber buckshot are similar in principle to the bean bag rounds. Buckshot and subsonic bullets may be similarly reflected from rubber vehicle tires. Nicholas orders the artillery to shoot buckshot. They are protected from nesting birds, rutting mammals, and stray buckshot. Miller shot Collins with a load of buckshot. Meanwhile, protesters were repressed by the National Guard armed with buckshot and batons. The badge was stained with blood and pockmarked by buckshot. Emmett was then hit in the back with a load of buckshot. Others say he earned the name after being wounded in the stomach with buckshot. Steve cheats by secretly feeding lead buckshot to Harte's champion frog. About 1966, this was replaced by the M576 buckshot round. Each round of this ammunition contained nine 00 (.33-caliber) buckshot pellets.