Radio Control Varmint Control

Hmm ... one of the .22 Gatling guns -- mechanically interlocked so you have to push the remote button once per shot to keep it legal (if that would be sufficient).

Enjoy, DoN.

A 12" smoothbore barrel makes it a short barreled shotgun and an NFA firearm. Check with state regs, then get your ATF stamp, then build it.

David

The best one I did was a plastic skull dressed up with ketchup and a lace curtain, rigged to slide and flutter down fishline toward the front door which I opened slowly from behind, out of sight but peeping through the hinge side. Adults backed off with alarm, the kids just grinned and held their candy bags up.

My friend at work uses PLC controls and has a little spook walk type of thing set up in his yard for the trick or treaters. He rigs up things in the yard, trees, attic, porch and wherever.

That could be fun to try to terrify varmints with something that looks like a predator about the have them for lunch. Could be funny to catch on camera. I guess I could always do something like the squirrel sling shot on youtube but for raccoons, skunks, etc.

RogerN

Humm...that would indeed likely fall into the Any Other catagory..which is a $5 tax stamp.

Or one could simply make the barrel 18.125" long and not bother with the authorities. clamp the barrel half way, and it becomes much more managable. The receiver only needs to be about 2" long to fit all the lock parts and firing pin. making the entire assembly about 20" long.....there might be an issue there too....

Then one could simply make a muzzle loading barrel and call it a model cannon with a much shorter barrel....

Humm...need to ponder on this a bit....

Gunner

"Upon Roosevelt's death in 1945, H. L. Mencken predicted in his diary that Roosevelt would be remembered as a great president, "maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln," opining that Roosevelt "had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes.""

I need one of these to deter the neighbourhood s***ty cats that frequent the areas kept sow and frost free by the overhang, both front and rear on my side split. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Is there a minimum overall length limit on non-NFA weapons or is that a state thing?

BobH

I've killed coral snakes and rattlers with the CCI .38 shot shell out of a 357 Blackhawk. I never used more than one shot. Maybe you were just too far away.

Well, there's "close" range and then there's "close enough." ;-)

Federal law btw.

"Upon Roosevelt's death in 1945, H. L. Mencken predicted in his diary that Roosevelt would be remembered as a great president, "maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln," opining that Roosevelt "had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes.""

Have you seen this?

Maybe even use the whole setup but with the access door going into a box that contains the food bowls instead of into the house? Doesn't fix the trash issue, but at least you'd fix half of the problem (assuming the little rascals don't figure out another way into the food enclosure). Or since you'd not likely be worried about the whole excluding mice portion, just get the collar activated pet door and sufficient collars for your pets?

--Glenn Lyford

Now that's a pretty cool round!

At work some of the people take these 36" air wands / blow guns and have made darts with foam earplugs and a sharpened wire, they shoot and kill pigeons with the darts. Some others have fire set screws through the air wands and claim they shoot pretty hard. From that kind of idea I could construct an air gun and use darts or "bullets", may not kill a raccoon, but I would think it wouldn't be coming around after getting stuck with a couple of darts or hit with set screws.

Would ~100psi from a compressor shoot a projectile hard enough to deter a varmint?

RogerN

More like a Marble Game Getter.

It still needs to be 26"+ OAL.

Nah, just adapter one of those new Ruger pistols based on the 10-22 action.

David

Huh? Wish I had not missed this one. Sounds interesting as heck.

That's the ticket! A miniature UH-60 with a gas rifle! Chase those varmints across the neighborhood, pop-pop-pop! As a side business, you could sell the gun camera video!

Jon

I found some related youtube videos for anyone interested

Don't know if it would be legal... by a long shot, or if there are any of a size suitable for your applicaton, but there are some precharged pneumatics (PCPs) with enough energy to easily kill small game. There are some that claim the energey to kill mid to large size game (deer maybe, but not a hippo). They will also put a hole in your garage, nasty dent in your car, break glass, and reek all kinds of havoc if discharged carelessly.

I've been doing a little searching on the web and experimenting. There are youtube videos of mounting a video camera on a rifle scope and some videos using the IR capabilities of video cameras to make economical IR night vision rifle scopes. I saw a video of someone shooting rats that looked pretty neat.

I bought a wireless network camera and have it in my carport now. Saw a skunk coming up and getting into the cat food. Anyway, I tried and the network camera could see the IR from the TV remote, not sure if it has an IR filter or not. The thing I like least about this camera is that there is a lag between live and the image I get on my PC. I think it would be better to use some wireless cameral that transmits a video signal instead of network data.

I also tried my camcorder looking through my rifle scope and a red dot sight and that worked great. I wasn't sure if it would require a lens to focus, but it doesn't, just needs to be held aligned.

Anyway I was looking for IR illuminators on eBay and found some IR laser sights. They said you had to use night vision or a camera to see the dot, sounds perfect. I'm thinking that if I make my gun turret balanced or counter-balanced it shouldn't take much RC servo torque to aim it. I may experiment with something like a Gamo air rifle for now and later make a gun & camera I can use on an RC vehicle. I have a Traxxas E-Max 4x4 RC truck that could handle a small gun & camera setup.

Tonight my son bought a CO2 pistol from Wal-Mart for $31 and it says it has a muzzle velocity of 480fps and holds 15 BB's in the magazine. Sounds like that could be a possibility for a vehicle mounted gun. I kind of like the idea of shot filled 22lr, 38's, 9mm's, or 44's myself but the BB pistol may be a cheap, quick, and easy way to get started.

So far things are looking very do-able on this project, plus a lot of fun :-)

RogerN