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.
no, this (or just onion juice) may have been where Obama’s fake tears came from so suddenly...
I like the Claims Investigator ad on page 60 with the body lying in front of the car.
I missed that! Hilarious!
WOW! When was the last time Popular Science put out a 240 page edition?
Interesting.
That's more than half the number of pages in The Last Whole Earth Catalog, #1160, published June 1971.
That edition of the LWHC cost $5, compared to $0.35 for the Popular Science of seven years prior.
Popular Science was printed in a smaller format, it must be admitted.
A.38 magnum?
Good. Hate gophers.
38, 39, whatever it takes.
I could see a video of the rodinator being used in the city
to blow up sidewalk housing, Whoomph, and a wino comes scurrying out of his cardboard burrow, hair on fire, etc.
Then plugging him with your paint ball gun.
Put him in the bag tom.
I don’t use tear gas.
Onions and beans work for me.
If you want lots of pages you could buy Vogue or Elle or even Cosmo.
That was ghastly.
I’m guessing it was propane and oxygen blown under pressure into the hole.
Was it my imagination, or were some ballistic gophers actually visible in a few of those scenes?
I dunno, I kind of enjoyed it. Yes it was a propane and oxy mix that gets blown into the tunnel for a few minutes then shut off, and the Rodenator has a sparking mechanism at the end of the probe/sealer that ignites the mixture.
As for the ballistic gophers, I’m not certain. I’ll have to re-watch the vid later to see if I can make out a few.
Spectacular results, though. :)
If memory serves, PS long numbered their paqes by the entire year they were published, instead of according to what number of pages were in any one month's edition.
That would make beginning pages of later months have high page numbers from the first page of that month's edition.
Geez, you know what? Here’s my next question: why didn’t the Army used the Rodenator in Viet Nam, instead of risking Tunnel Rats?
In Texas, in 1963 35 cents could buy almost 3 gallons of gasoline, maybe more, depending on where in Texas a person was at.
In 1963, the quarter and dime that made up the 35 cents were silver — Take a beat up 1963 quarter and dime to any pawn shop and you’re going to get a lot more than 35 cents just for the melt value, possibly enough to buy 3 gallons of gas.
Bring back the silver standard! (?)
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