It's called a Punt Gun, you mount it on a small boat (a punt) for hunting waterfowl.
The biggest ones had 2+ inch bores and fired over a pound of shot per trigger pull. A single shot could kill over 50 birds if they're grouped up on the water. They'd often hunt in groups, up to 10 punts at a time.
Bird populations were getting depleted so they pretty much stopped doing this by the early 1900's.
Sounds like you're not clued in to the wondrously magical pigeon eradicating invention 'half a can of tuna with half a cup of rat poison mixed in'. Dump half the tuna out, fill with rat poison, mix it up good, put it in the rafters or wherever the fuckers are roosting, and replace as needed for a couple days and voila! Inside 2 weeks tops, no more pigeons! Added bonus, they go someplace else to die.
Interesting. I'm more of a peregrinen falcon person myself. My mom was in the hospital in St Louis years back up in the top floors. I could watch them all day exploding pigeons in mid air with binoculars.
My office is an 'L' shaped building with a chain link fence around the parking lot, tall trees around the perimeter, a block from the beach - every Monday morning there's seagull feathers and bird poop on the ground where the falcons swoop in and eat some dumbass seagull that was scavenging in our trash. I find bird heads with the spinal column attached, bones picked clean and mystery organs all the time. Very cool birds (the falcons). Never caught one in the act of pigeon or seagull murdering, but the feathers, bird parts and poop are a pretty sure sign of what's happening.
The old ladies in the neighborhood have a lot of bird feeders, bird houses and flowers. So every spring the songbirds are chirping like crazy... until a hawk found their oasis this summer. It was a total massacre, in the first week the small birds chased the hawk from tree to tree trying to distract it from the nests.
By the end of the week, no more birds chirping in the morning. And the hawk corpse camped what was left for a month. It even pried open one of the roofs of a bird house.
It was much more entertaining than watching pro sports.
We had a third of a 5 story parking garage roped off as unusable because of pigeons roosting and shitting on the cars, plus the obvious disease vector of birds and their loads of shit. One guy and less than 10 bucks worth of tuna and rat poison solved the problem. They are vermin. idgaf about downvotes one bit.
Shut the hell up you moron. Please do tell me what all these other animals are that are living in the rafters of a 5 story concrete parking garage and eating out of tuna cans shoved up into the beams? Are you and your sandy vagina imagining Bambi's mother up there? What is the disruption to the ecosystem when vermin are removed from an urban environment where the vermin have no natural predators to control their numbers, their corpses simply get washed into storm drains or picked up by street cleaners? What scenario do you imagine unfolding where killing off vermin birds somehow ends up with the 'pest problem bouncing back harder'? Sheesh, you are an absolute retard.
It's called a Punt Gun, you mount it on a small boat (a punt) for hunting waterfowl.
The biggest ones had 2+ inch bores and fired over a pound of shot per trigger pull. A single shot could kill over 50 birds if they're grouped up on the water. They'd often hunt in groups, up to 10 punts at a time.
Bird populations were getting depleted so they pretty much stopped doing this by the early 1900's.
they should bring this back for pigeons then
Pigeons, antifa homeless camps...
Sounds like you're not clued in to the wondrously magical pigeon eradicating invention 'half a can of tuna with half a cup of rat poison mixed in'. Dump half the tuna out, fill with rat poison, mix it up good, put it in the rafters or wherever the fuckers are roosting, and replace as needed for a couple days and voila! Inside 2 weeks tops, no more pigeons! Added bonus, they go someplace else to die.
Interesting. I'm more of a peregrinen falcon person myself. My mom was in the hospital in St Louis years back up in the top floors. I could watch them all day exploding pigeons in mid air with binoculars.
My office is an 'L' shaped building with a chain link fence around the parking lot, tall trees around the perimeter, a block from the beach - every Monday morning there's seagull feathers and bird poop on the ground where the falcons swoop in and eat some dumbass seagull that was scavenging in our trash. I find bird heads with the spinal column attached, bones picked clean and mystery organs all the time. Very cool birds (the falcons). Never caught one in the act of pigeon or seagull murdering, but the feathers, bird parts and poop are a pretty sure sign of what's happening.
The old ladies in the neighborhood have a lot of bird feeders, bird houses and flowers. So every spring the songbirds are chirping like crazy... until a hawk found their oasis this summer. It was a total massacre, in the first week the small birds chased the hawk from tree to tree trying to distract it from the nests.
By the end of the week, no more birds chirping in the morning. And the hawk corpse camped what was left for a month. It even pried open one of the roofs of a bird house.
It was much more entertaining than watching pro sports.
We had a third of a 5 story parking garage roped off as unusable because of pigeons roosting and shitting on the cars, plus the obvious disease vector of birds and their loads of shit. One guy and less than 10 bucks worth of tuna and rat poison solved the problem. They are vermin. idgaf about downvotes one bit.
Shut the hell up you moron. Please do tell me what all these other animals are that are living in the rafters of a 5 story concrete parking garage and eating out of tuna cans shoved up into the beams? Are you and your sandy vagina imagining Bambi's mother up there? What is the disruption to the ecosystem when vermin are removed from an urban environment where the vermin have no natural predators to control their numbers, their corpses simply get washed into storm drains or picked up by street cleaners? What scenario do you imagine unfolding where killing off vermin birds somehow ends up with the 'pest problem bouncing back harder'? Sheesh, you are an absolute retard.
Small boat? Damn.
Is the capital referred to as a body of water?....asking for a friend.
A swamp is a body of water, yes.
For what purpose tho?
"Honey, we are having feathers, bones, and blood slop tonight! I got 10 buckets full!"