Innovative Way of Hunting

elgriff

http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm

This is becoming popular in America I believe. What are the risks & legalities of such hunting in Ireland?

Mellor

It was posted before i think and most of us thought it was fake

pullandbang

We do it on clays in our local club. Only problem is we only get to fire one shot per day as the council have put restrictions on us because of the noise and smoke.

Usual set up is to put out 10 boxes of clays ranging from 50 yards out to 120 yards and we fan them out in a fan shape. The lucky club member who won the right to fire the shot then lines up the cannon, loads up and lets fly!

Half an hour later when the smoke clears ( or less if it's windy) we go and count what's left of the clays. It's great crack but the biggest drawback is getting the cannon in and out of the bog and the gunsafe at home is just ridiculous!

Trojan911

Mellor wrote: »

It was posted before i think and most of us thought it was fake

Looking at the skinned deer the wound marks look identical, like they have been cloned onto the carcass.

Fake is my opinion.

Mellor

Trojan911 wrote: »

Looking at the skinned deer the wound marks look identical, like they have been cloned onto the carcass.

Fake is my opinion.

That's exactly what I thought. Plus a few others.

The wounds look they were copied in photoshop.
The wounds also look a little small for such big projectiles. (but the velocity is quite slow, so might be plausible)
The wounds are missing in the other pictures of the deer, the one just after collecting.
Its most likely a joke to get extra traffic in order to sell the buckstix

Grizzly 45

Reckon it is possible..It is after all just a giant shotgun?

sfakiaman

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Reckon it is possible..It is after all just a giant shotgun?

Could be the answer for the guy looking for a goose deterrent in a recent thread.