Varmint Control

Except that it would not 'pin them to the ground'.

"John B" wrote in news:4a4e6b14$0$17704$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

animal cruelty.

Also,many states have laws about what materials can be used for bullets in "firearms".(there may even be a Federal law on that.) a nail is iron,and one of the prohibited materials. it would also tear up the rifling in the barrel.

Well, I guess that depends on how many nails you fire and how big they are!

Pretty stupid when the solution is to do it in one shot, and also a projectile from a proper gun can be projected several tens of feet accurately. The nail driver would have to be right up against the prey. They have virtually zero accuracy after a couple feet, and even those couple feet are hit and miss.

You have been watching to many movies. The pellet gun acts juts like a real gun. It goes in small, and comes out the other side big and carrying a lot of flesh with it. The critter will not likely run off, and if it does, you will not be seeing that particular critter again.

Looks like nature possibly took its own course...

FOUR, COUNT 'EM, FOUR big owls seen on the hillside last night.

Number of rabbits seen today... ZERO ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Well Owls have to eat too. :-)

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I saw a rabbit on my morning bike ride yesterday. I've also been buzzed by an owl who I believe was hunting a small cat that was dumpster diving.

Now, if those owls would just develop a taste for trolls....

Looks like my backyard is the currently designated killing field. Just went out the back door to set out the garbage can, big owl is so calm, sitting there in my grass munching on something too far gone to identify ;-)

...Jim Thompson

If you're talking cal .50, maybe you should look at a wrist rocket. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

There are .50 cal air rifles in the channel.

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Ultrasonic repeller boxes work for me. I sling several of them connected to a multiple outlet extention cord, into a window sill that I keep open in the summertime.

I sought for a solution, because of the night-singing mocking birds which populate some regions of Southern California.

I resoned that while the repellers are designed for small rodents, and insects, that a birds skull was of a nearly similar dimension.

Well, It worked. I use it every Springtime ( & no more screeching birds outside at 1:30am ).

My experiment cost less than 20 US Dollars.

For what it's worth,

JHH

"Lon" > thingy and a raccoon greeted me on the patio a few days ago...

Since BT replaced all the old red GPO telephone boxes they mounted the open plan one up the road from me facing into the wind, every time we get heavy rain the phone gets waterlogged and starts emitting a high pitched whistling noise.

I always wondered why all the dogs in the neighbourhood started barking like crazy every time we had heavy rain!