Indians For Guns

I am looking for pellets to be used in a .22 air rifle, other than the conventional lead type. Some what similar to the Paint Ball shooting ones. We have some monkey menece in the farm, the local farmers say if we spray any colour on the monkeys they will not come so often. Hence toying with the idea of shooting them with Paint ball type of pettets. Or for that matter harmless but painful plastic pellets. Are they available in the market. Please help

I dunno ur location but u can maybe rent a proper paintball gun and play holi. Else buy an underpowered indian made pistol that shoots plastic BBs and sting them. Easily available in toy shops in most metros.

I too have a monkey problem. Any suggestions would be welcome.
bruno22

i have seen and felt the monkey trouble, especially the party raids... they just love the clothes left outside, open windows, ventilations and any other curious stuff.
One advice, dont shoot them, any thing that even inflicts pain can make them come back all the more aggressive. I have seen guys doing stuff like trapping a monkey and then tying him up for a few days with occassional beating and then set free. The monkey made sure it came back and did some damage every single time. it was no more play.. it was plain revenge.

one thing that works well, crackers, loud sound can startle them and is a message of no welcome that they understand pretty fast. another is chillipowder and diesel mix (dont know the science behind) but it used to worked well..

Thomas

Hi Thomas:

How do u go about the Chillipowder & Diesel mix ? I am prepared to try it out. Am calling from Bangalore.

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shanthirai wrote:Hi Thomas:

How do u go about the Chillipowder & Diesel mix ? I am prepared to try it out. Am calling from Bangalore.

Shantirai
i dont know the preparation, but just remember the elders bringing it and using it, (was way too young then), but boy that stuff was bad!!!!, it was near Walayar, Kerala where i saw this being done.
some mix of spent engine oil, appears like freeflowing tar, diesel and red chilli powder as someone mentioned it then, and they used to use a paint brush for some quick brush on the post and fences, i think the smell kept them away.. it was a weekend deed for the guys who need to use the back yard to dry cloths, and i think holds good for a few days if it doesnt rain..

Thomas

Hello,
Paint balls are usually larger in size, so using them in a .22 air rifle is doubtful. If u want to get a paintball gun and paint balls try http://headrush.in

Some 6mm Paintball pellets are also available. These can be shot from regular air soft guns. Can you guys get a langur owner. They are scared of langurs and stay away. Can't the forest department help?

dev wrote:Some 6mm Paintball pellets are also available. These can be shot from regular air soft guns.

An airsoft gun might be fine but you wouldn't want to shoot 6mm paint pellets out of a .22 cal air rifle as they are guaranteed to burst in the barrel and make an unholy mess.

i found a water pistol, or just cold water does the trick many times. Is unpleasant to the monkey and there is no pain or smelly stuff etc involved.

We normally do not get monkeys at where i stay in Bangalore, but in case we see some of them, we stay indoors so they do not know there exists civilization i.e. food

rishu

You have to be careful when you mess with Monkeys. They seem like harmless little guys but they can be downright nasty. I'm talking from personal experience here.

When I was about fifteen or sixteen years old, my dad was posted to Kolkatta. We lived in an army compound called Jubilee Lines, just a little ways outside Fort William. At the time it was a very pleasant place, with the river just a short ways away, surrounded by greenery. Most of us kids had airguns and we used them all them time much to the detriment of the Rats, Pigeons and Crows in the area. We had a badminton court in the compound but we were chronically short of shuttlecocks. One of the officers in the colony loved eating Pigeons and he made a deal with us kids, one shuttlecock for every three pigeons or something similar. After we cleared the compound of Pigeons, we would have to go further afield to find them. We often went down by the river and shot them out of the trees there.

By my building, there was a back gate which led to an MES office compound. The wall around that compound was surrounded by a six foot wall topped with crushed glass. On the other side of that compound was a road and past the road was the river. One Saturday morning, we cut through the MES compound to get to the river. There were four of us and three of us had airguns. This day, there was a troop of Monkeys chattering and frolicking in the trees. I was kind of ticked off because it meant that they had chased all the Pigeons away. I was thinking that maybe if we chased the monkeys away, we might be able to get some Pigeons back later in the day. So Bwana Target, mighty hunter, decides to take a pot shot at one of the Monkeys. I'm just going to shoot him in the ass, see, not really hurt him or anything. Just going to show him who's the boss. So I pick out the biggest one and shoot him in the ass. He yelps and jumps up to the top of the tree. My youthfull companions and I laugh and yell at the poor primate.

Oh, Oh, wrong move! Some Monkeys apparently have sensibilities that can be offended. At least, this one decided that enough was enough. All of a sudden, he, Alpha male that he is, woofs and drops out of the tree. He stands up, stretching to his full height, bares his teeth and growls and starts advancing slowly. I laugh, after all I have my brave compadres backing me up and we have Airguns! So I load another pellet quickly while still keeping an eye on the monkey and it drops out of the barrel to the ground. We always held a couple of extra pellets in our teeth so we could reload quickly. So I spit out another pellet into my hand and turn to say something to my brave cohort. I look behind me and I'm all alone. Not a soul to be seen, anywhere. It's just Clyde the Orangutan and me. Ulp! Crap! I swallowed my last pellet and I dropped the one in my hand! I start digging in my pocket for another pellet but I can tell he's going to get to me before I can find another. So I do what any other mighty hunter does when the tables are turned on him, I run!

I run into the MES compound, heading for the back gate and what the... its shut, with a great big padlock on it. Crap! Saturdays are half days! So here I am trapped in a corner of this compound with six foot high walls and a locked gate and King Kong is advancing towards me. He's getting bigger and faster all the time and he has these great big yellow fangs sticking out the corners of his mouth. Oh yeah! I remember those great big yellow fangs to this day. I still dont know how I did it but I vaulted that wall, broken glass on top and all. When I landed on the other side, I still had my airgun in my hand and not a scratch anyhwere. Those brave companions of mine, those guys who had my back, they hid from me for the rest of the day. None of us ever brought up that particular subject again.

I can tell you though, I never messed with another Monkey after that, .... never.

A MULTIPUMP(1377,2100) is what I use to scare away monkeys- 2 pumps at 20yrds or so will not injure the critter- but he will never return !!!

xl_target wrote:

dev wrote:Some 6mm Paintball pellets are also available. These can be shot from regular air soft guns.

An airsoft gun might be fine but you wouldn't want to shoot 6mm paint pellets out of a .22 cal air rifle as they are guaranteed to burst in the barrel and make an unholy mess.

notice that i said regular air soft guns.

-- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:15 pm --

Yup this happened to another gent who took a pot shot at a large simian with a hw 77. the guy charged the gent and he was within striking range before the gent could reload. However the gents three large dogs tore into kingkong before he could do anything.