Nah they relaxed the laws on Co2 pistols a while back. May have been the around the time of Dunblane after they banned .22> calibre handguns. A crap attempt to soften the blow no doubt.

Air rifles are great - cheap, safer than proper firearms and no licence. But oh my was so good going to the states and shooting:

Uzi 9mm
H&K MP5 9mm
H&K UMP .45
H&K USP .45 (same as 007 now I believe)
Mossberg Compact Shottie firing slugs
Desert Eagle .44 magnum
Glock 17 9mm
Glock 19 9mm
Taurus Raging Bull .454 casull (most powerful handgun round available)

 

P1fanatic,

the term used i think is detonation or dieseling.


[Edited by mj - 7/18/2002 8:14:46 PM]

 

Also got a HW97K, and Tasco 4-9x30 scope.

Oh, and a Beretta 682 Gold E 32" 12b sporter, and Mrs T-S has a Beretta Silver Pigeon 28" 12b.

 

Dave

But can I borrow your air-rifle please?

 

Easy.

I was told a while ago to put out bread with baking soda or something? (not quite sure). The pideogns then eat the bread but can't belch/burp! This causes then to peg it or blow up! Farmers advice!
Hope this helps.

Golders

 

mj - spot on mate. Was on the tip of my tongue and starting to bug me

 

Bread and Alka Seltzer.

Being a roofer, I can honestly say this works very well on seagulls, so pigeons should be no worries...

 

Chunks of calcium carbonate, looks like bread. It does work.

Alterantive to an air rifle is of course the trusty old catapult. That is assuming there are no windows about

 

I know this is out of charactuer (pos typo) for me but hey, Bread and a Alca Seltzer tablet you can guess the rest POP

I used to work for a neon sign company years ago and we used to kill them with the neon transformer 20000 volts plus = instant death as they used to crap all over the signs etc.

Huxley

 

If you can trap them, just neck them; with the right technique death is instant
When you have got rid of the birds who were either raised in your office or have raised birds in your office they will not bother you

[Edited by subster - 7/21/2002 4:20:48 AM]

 

Move your Office. !!!!!!!!!!!!

Far simpler

 

Can you reach the perch they're on w/o falling hundreds of feet into the murky Thames?
Try putting a fake owl on your windowsill/their perch. Available from sporting goods stores/gunshops.

 

Update as at the moment...

Chicken wired the openings & found that they've found another cavity in the wall in which to breed (next to the 1st one). There are currently 4 of the buggers + squeakers which we can't see. All the adults seem to sh@g each other indescriminately - incest is best?

Landlord's representative at the building is quite happy if we want to shoot them, so with permission in place, just need the air-rifle Must do it this week before the biddies that do the accounts come back from hols

Oh & although I would/could wring their necks, I'd prefer not to just in case I catch some dodgy disease The idea of exploding pigeons seems unnecessarilly cruel, so it'll be pellets in the backs of their heads whilst they watch the sun reflecting off Canary Wharf as it goes down...

 

I've heard nitroglycerin is a very effective method of killing pigeons.