The Chinese did not get much salt in their food, so they would pull the slug out of a rifle cartridge and eat some of the gunpowder, then replace the slug. A friend was coaching on the rifle range, when a Chinese soldier pulled the trigger. The slug stuck in the barrel and before my buddy could stop him, he had fired another shot The breech got the Chinese right between the eyes and then creased the top of my buddy's head. He was lucky!! They had to be watched every second.