You Used an Airgun for What?
Every once in awhile I hear of an airgun being used in a most unusual way. I admit that from time to time I do odd things with an airgun. For instance:
Shooting spiders! You don't even need a pellet! Just blast them with air! (This one earns me bonus points with my wife since she has a pronounced dislike of the little critters.)
Swatting flies! Even more challenging than spiders, these guys, on the wing, are much harder to hit. Now, forewarned is forearmed, and you need to have an understanding spouse or significant other before you engage in supplying the anti-aircraft battery for your living room.
(The above two activities are not for spring-piston airguns.....never fire them without a pellet in place. Reserve the above antics for CO2 or PCP airguns only).
Now, if you want to add an element of danger to your anti-aircraft activities, you can take on a wasp nest if you really have a death wish. I must admit that I have engaged in such an activity, since I happily don't suffer from any allergies to wasp stings. In the event that I am unsuccessful, all I have to worry about is a painful welt wherever the little bugger manages to get his revenge. But I also go for the overkill in some circumstances. Once, when a colony of wasps decided that my trusty ladder was their domain and that I wasn't allowed near it, I took out a .50 caliber PCP airgun, and wiped all eleven of them, along with their nest, with a single shot!
There are some practitioners of the art of fly-sniping who bait their prey in. Adding a drop of syrup or honey to a target at a known distance allows the shooter to actually shoot a sitting fly. You will find pictures floating around the internet of a target with insect legs around the perimeter of a hole where the body of the insect used to be.
But this week's award for the most unusual use of an airgun that I could find would be at the following link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299560,00.html
Officer James Kellet of the Carrollton Township in Michigan used an airgun to remove a salad dressing jar from the head of a skunk. I'm not kidding, read the story!
If you get the chance, respond to this blog entry with your own story of how you used an airgun in an unusual way. We'd all like the chance to hear about your exploits.
Comments
I use my drozd (bought from airgundepot, too...) to help mushrooms propagate. When puffballs are ripe, they explode if poked, this is how the spores spread. A drozd set to six-round burst can cause a small mushroom cloud (literally) if you hit the puffball right in the middle.
Posted by: grant | October 10, 2007 06:21 PM