paintball gun accuracy?

[taliv]

while it is possible to adjust a paintball gun where it shoots much faster than 300 fps, i doubt very much that there is any spot you could hit a healthy cat that would kill it.

if you get a solid shot, the ball breaks like a water balloon so it doesn't hurt much at all. if you get a glancing blow so the ball doesn't break, it will leave a nice welt, but it's certainly not life threatening, even to a cat.

 

[pdowg881]

I dunno about cats, but a paintball gun to a squirrel will blow its eyes out of it's head. I'm pretty sure you'd mess the cat up pretty bad, but not kill it.

 

[bigun15]

I dunno about cats, but a paintball gun to a squirrel will blow its eyes out of it's head.

You sound like you've had an "experience" with this?

 

[Deer Hunter]

Is a BB gun out of the question here?

Just wondering, I'd use a simple "lever" action BB gun to keep them away.

 

[.38special]

My very old red ryder would do the trick, and not hurt the cat at all. Picked it up at Wally World for 25$.

Or you could go the airsoft route,
both would work.

 

[Snake Eyes]

Removed.

 

[Whatsit]

Cheap trick: Put duct tape strips sticky side up around your motorcycle. Cats hate getting tape stuck to them. After a couple of times, the spraying cats will find another place to piss.

 

[Arch]

hmmm, I would probably agree with the people suggesting a hose or water pistol.

Anything else is just overkill, and potentially cruel (e.g. If you missed with an airsoft gun, and took-out one of it's eyes).

 

[dartos]

I've used both paintball and airsoft against squirrels, i prefer airsoft, less mess and you can follow the critter with a full auto burst right out of the yard, and another thing you may want to think about..do you want to have the neighbors cats all "marked" with paint?, airsoft will probably just "mark" the cats memory of a bad visit to your yard.

 

[Yeager]

Don't use airsoft

I'm sorry I've been lurking this forum for quite a while but I just had to pipe up on this subject.

Are any you aware that airsofters who own the high end 600 dollar+ guns are fighting the same battle paintballers and gunowners are? Theres already proposed bans on our hobby in Flordia, MD, and NJ. And I might mention that Airsoft has already been banned in the UK and germany because of BS like this.

So please if you have to use anything use a Daisy red-ryder. Mine shoots 17 feet max and I've used it to sucessfully scare off dogs.

 

[CNYCacher]

Blowgun

Blowguns are cheap and fun to use. They are surprisingly accurate, and you can get critter-deterent "darts" which had no point, just a blunt metal head.

Whichever method you use, make sure the cat's don't see you punishing them. You want them to fear your property, not you. This probably rules out the hose method.

 

[Q-Lock]

"Whichever method you use, make sure the cat's don't see you punishing them. You want them to fear your property, not you." - CNYCacher

CNYCacher brings up a very important point. You don't want the cats to know what hit them...you just want them to remember that every time they step foot into your yard, something unpleasant happens. If they see you, then they'll just make sure to avoid you, and not your yard.

Cats are smart, but stubborn...if they don't see what stung them in the rear end, they'll just associate your yard with pain...which is good for you and your cat.

Regards,

 

[gunlover77]

Well....

A paintball gun when shot at the proper speed can hurt at times, in fact it will cut you. Also some paintballs are as hard as plastic.

 

[pdowg881]

Yea the shell can cut up bare skin, happened a few times to me. And a funny thing about airsoft, the chipmunks in my yard chase after the pellets instead of running away. And I do have personal experience with the damage paintball guns can do to rodents. very messy.

 

[Dmack_901]

If your cat has gotten into a few fights then I would have to assume he/she's an indoor cat either. So what I guess I'm saying is, cats will be cats. I know when we had an outdoor cat she'd just disappear, probably ran all over the neighborhood, and she came back when we returned from school.

If you turn the velocity way down I wouldn't expect it to hurt too bad, but you have to keep in mind scale. What a paintball to them, would be a softball sized sized hardcased-water-balloon to us; and traveling at 170mph. (1fps = .682mph)

 

[pdowg881]

I know when I'm hit by paintballs, the ones that don't break hurt more than those that break, and you get less that break with a lower velocity.

 

[Justin]

This one's pretty much run its course.