Posted on 01/07/2016 5:33:39 PM PST by Steely Tom
Hunting With Gas
A Growing Sport
Rattlers run, gophers go and fox fume ... when you hunt with TEAR GAS ...
It's been a long hard winter cooped up in the living room looking at TV. The spring woods beckon! Your trigger finger is itching, and your hound dog instincts are at fever pitch.
If you've got some experimenting blood in those hunter's veins of yours, you might want to try the fast-growing sport of hunting with TEAR GAS ... the equipment is cheap and simple. You can use a special .22 caliber automatic or a single-shot .38 caliber, fountain-pen-type, TEAR GAS discharger; neither of which will run you more than a sawbuck.
Your quarry is everywhere ... in holes, caves, hollow logs, burrows and mounds. It doesn't matter if your region is woody, swampy or prairie ... it will still hold game galore for this sport.
Your quarry is so varied, you never know what you're going to come up with next. Poke your pistol into a hollow log and you may flush out anything from a valuable mink to a snarling bobcat. That harmless-looking hole in the ground may harbor a spitting rattler or a frightened gopher. Just use a little caution and common sense -- watch that the wind doesn't blow gas in your direction.
You don't have to be a deadeye, either, for in this sport you just about can't miss. The .22 gun shoots a cloud of gas about 6 feet and will fire 6 times before reloading. The .38 magnum shell that shoots in the pen goes 12 to 15 feet with a wide area exposed to the gas. So, use the gun on small animals ... the pen on big ones, point your weapon at the target and fire away. If there's anything in there, it will be out and running in short order! This makes them ideal for farm or ranch pests.
Hunting with gas is free from a lot of cumbersome regulations. The Federal Firearms Act exempts these items, since they cannot possibly be used to fire live ammo of any kind. Since Uncle Sam allows no small arms ammo (even blanks) to be mailed, the whole works are shipped by bus, express or U.P.S. So, it is best to order additional ammo with the projector.
Many of the boys on the local game commissions are encouraging sportsmen to get rid of game- and bird-killing pests by flushing them out with TEAR GAS. They'll generally give you the green light to try for anything which isn't protected. In Florida, for example, our hunters went after -- and got -- bobcat, fox, snake, skunk, opossum, coon, squirrel, gopher, armadillo, rattler, tortoises and mixed reptiles. In other regions you can add all variety of varmints, such as nutria, rats, moles, shrews, woodchucks and prairie dogs.
Even the animal-protection people do not object too strongly to this sport, since all it does is give the critters a good cry and some exercise.
If you're not going hunting, these devices are excellent for personal protection in your home, car or your wife's purse.
I stand corrected — Current silver prices put the quarter at about $2.60 and the dime at about a buck so the total would only be $3.60. I don’t think you’re going to find 3 gallons of gas for that, even in Texas.
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A few days ago topped off a tank @ $174.9.
Slightly over two gallons, the silver those two small coins would have fetched.
That's still remarkable.
I bought that.
Better to hunt with pepper spray. That way critters are pre-seasoned Cajun style.
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