Growing up in South America, my then 22-year old brother had a similar problem. Except the concept of pellet guns does not exist down there. Needless to say, the rat got shot with a Glock.

Try 10 pound ravens with wingspans the size of a small cadillac — dive bombing my dogs (and plucking hair from their backs) as well as me and my children. That’s what I was faced with.

Turns out the damned aviary demons were protected in the state in which I *used* to live, but that did not deter me from an approach not unlike yours. Let’s take an inventory of the raw firepower that was available:

* HK SP89 submachine pistol (too loud, 2×15 round banana clips were, er, “overkill.”)
* HK SAR 8 sniper rifle — nice if I needed to take them out at 200 yards
* Assorted 9mm, .40cal pistols — see #1 above
* Benelli M3 Super 90 – Damned fun, but 8 rounds of turkey shot spread across the neighbors
yards would be frowned upon.
* Angel Paintball marker — 16 balls a second would be damned fun, but then i’d have bright-
blue, glow in the dark ravens dive bombing me in a very aggravated manner

Went to the local gunnery. He set me up with something with the same muzzle velocity as a
.22 but didn’t have the powder-actuated issues:

.177 air rifle with AIM-5 DOT scope and model 100 HK laser duct taped onto the scope mount.

Nothing says satisfaction like downing the leader of the pack from 25 yards. Now my dogs
won’t be members of the hair club for canines…

You might want to check out what happens when a .50 cal rifle performs an attitude adjustment on a prarie dog?

http://www.dogbegone.com/maxcarn.html

/Chris

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