Propane cannon?

Dave H (MI)

Well-known Member
Anyone ever use one? We have a situation where one of the local BTO's who rents almost everything on our street has clear cut almost all these properties. He also rents some fields from me but got rocked back on his heels when he suggested he needed to clear here also. That's great, I now have the prettiest place on the road and people love to stop out front and watch all the deer that used to live on the other properties devouring soybeans at a rate that I have never seen before and would not have believed possible. It is a real problem. I am hoping to step up the hunting pressure but was wondering in the interim if a little noise would help...do they just get used to it or does it really work? Soy belongs to the BTO by the way. I planted corn and they seem to like the soy better.
 
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Deer will get used to the BOOM in short order.After a week os so all you'll get when the gun goes off is an ear flick.Where I worked ,4 of them were put in to keep Bambi off the runways.Wasent too long before we had to send a truck out to clear them off.











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I agree with GVSII. Deer will get use to anything that becomes regular and it will seem normal to them. Especially anything that proves to be no danger to them. For example. I have been really close to deer while on tractors when farming. They learn that there is no danger, they get use to them, then they just simply ignore. Have even had them work thier way closer to the operating tractor looking right at it and there wasn't no doubt they knew what was going on. Something not normal and out of the blue will send them running, but only untill they figure things out.
 
Instead of a propane cannon what about shooting the deer with a potato or an onion cannon. A buddy of mine made a PVC onion cannon, hair spray is the propellent, Or a Pellet gun to sting them to stay off the land.
 
Better yet go to the DNR and get a permit to shoot some for crop damage. At the price of beef you can get some great eating and not have to pay the big money that they get for beef now. I have no problem with the beef farmer getting a good price but I just don't want to have to pay it.

Bob
 
If it's not your soy, all I would do is tell the BTO and sit back and watch, unless of course they decided to come on your land and do something silly !
 
I've had to chase deer off shooting range while sighting in my deer rifle. Went for a 5 minute drive tonite - counted 15 deer in two adjacent hayfields.
 
It taste DELICIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at it this way! Pork taste like Pork, Beef taste like beef, Chicken taste like chicken, and Venison taste like venison.

Bob
 
Sounds like the deer aren't the only thing full of beans! And LOTS of things taste like chicken...or so I have heard.
 

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