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Skriven 2008-06-13 16:20:35 av Mark Lewis (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Björn Forsström
Ärende: Investing in the Futu
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Hi Björn,
In a message to Jim Weller you wrote:


 JW>> I dealt with birds one year with a shotgun and then in subsequent
 JW>> years a loud tape recording of a shotgun and the squawks of an
 JW>> injured crow. Much more effective than scarecrows.

 BF> Then you can help me with the magpies here....I have only a airgun. 

maybe you could try a potato gun without the potato... we used to make
something like these by joining three or four tennis ball cans together... we
had a heavy mesh we put on the top of the bottom can and then cut out the
bottom of all the others... also in the side, at the bottom of the very bottom
can, we poked in a small hole large enough to get a lit match into... IIRC we
used one of the "old" triangle can openers (used before the pull top cans came
out) to make this hole with... then we'd squirt in some lighter fluid, not a
lot... maybe a 1 second squirt... shake the cannon around a bit to "make" the
vapors, drop a tennis ball in the top (it sits on the heavy mesh so it is two
or three cans down in the cannon) and stick a lit match in the hole... BOOM!! 

big and loud, too! and the ball flew into the air at least 100 feet or more...
it was pretty fun at night, too... we could get a nice flame out the open
end... one fo the guys also figured out to squirt some fluid on the tennis ball
and it would do like a meteor leaving a flaming tail behind it when fired...

anyway, we (finally) got to the place where we didn't even drop the ball in
'cause just making the huge BOOM was quite fun... and that (finally) brings me
to my point... possibly just the huge BOOM would be enough to run them off? we
currently do rather the same here with the hawks and other predators by firing
the rifle or pistol just to make a loud noise and scare them off...

the reason i mentioned a potato gun is because they can easily be made out of
PVC pipe and you can also fit them with a pizeo sparker like one would use on a
propane gas grill... this way, you don't have to worry about sticking your
fingers in or near a hole with a lit match to ignite the vapors and make the
BOOM :)  plans for potato guns are readily available on the 'net, too :)

 BF> I put out some catfood on the lawn and when I missed the first shot
 BF> they didn't return until the cats was eating and as long as they eat
 BF> and they see that nothing happends to them they were still around.
 BF> After that I only had to move behind the window to scare them away.
 BF> They are very smart. Last year I shot 4 of them but now others are
 BF> back so I have to keep their numbers down. Make a new try today.
 BF> Anybody have a good recipe for magpies....?

i seem to recall something from my youth about "4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a
pie"... would that be sufficient? :)

Bye bye!
  mark

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