pump-up paintball gun

[Navy_Guns]

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I am desperate to find a paint ball marker that you can pump up like an air rifle, but shoots paint balls. I need something I can use to scare my 4 cats away from our bird feeder. I come home to avian crime scenes INSIDE MY HOUSE almost every day and the clean up sucks. I don't want to risk shooting BB's near the cats, and my spring-action airsoft pistol is lucky to reach from the house to the bird feeder and won't even scare birds. I could go "Biden" and shoot a shotgun into the air, but that is stupid. I have CO2 and HPA bottles for my long-retired paintball marker but neither would stay leak-free long enough to suit my occasional need. What I need is a pump-up paintball marker. Does such a beast exist? I imagine there are ultra-primitive paintball purists that have something like this, equivalent to a Revolutionary War-era marker.

Help?

 

[Telekinesis]

The oldest paintball guns I know of were pump, but they were powered by small CO2 cartridges. All pumping did was cycle the action.

I'd just spend a few bucks and buy a new CO2 tank for the paintball gun you already have. I'd bet that would still be the cheaper alternative even if you were able to find a paintball gun that used a pump for pressure.

 

[barnbwt]

Airsoft would be fully capable of adjusting feline attitudes if used judiciously... but will they learn?

TCB

 

[Bearhands]

a good wrist-rocket (slingshot) and either a marble or a non-pitted black olive will send an excellent message.... cheap, effective and quiet.

 

[Macchina]

Any normal gun will take care of the cats. If you only want to get one gun for both the cats and birds, I'd suggest getting a shotgun.

 

[Macchina]

Or get a pump-action cat...

 

[Plastikosmd]

I dunno, I am a cat person and they are your cats, I doubt shooting them with paintball will teach them anything short of injuring them.

When we had outdoor cats, we would check them close as to avoid them bringing in their " gifts"

Are they coming in via a dog/ cat door?

 

[jmorris]

If they are your cats, they are just doing what cats do...the only thing besides humans that kill just for fun.

 

[WALKERs210]

Never shot a cat or dog with paintball but a rabbit will jump about 5-6 ft in the air and had a tell-tale yellow spot. I shot the rabbit at a range around 20ft or more and don't think it hurt the rabbit in the least but scared it pretty good. Shooting cats or dogs will get me a place on the couch or back seat of car if the wife finds out. There is one paint ball marker gun that uses the 12g co2 cartridge and has a pump action to reload the next PB from a stick type magazine. The overall cost was less than $30.00 best I remember.

 

[Dmitri Popov]

Go to walmart, grab a $30 dollar pump gun and a box or 12g's and you done. Works on dogs, cats, deer, and bats.

 

[Navy_Guns]

I do not want to scare my cats or the birds with a shotgun blast.

I do not want to hit my cats with any kind of projectile.

Shooting anemic airsoft BB's into the grass near them has been ineffective. I figured the bigger, heavier paintballs hitting the grass a few feet away would get the cats to move on.

 

[Dmitri Popov]

Water ballon.

 

[rcmodel]

a good wrist-rocket (slingshot) and either a marble or a non-pitted black olive will send an excellent message.... cheap, effective and quiet.

It's his cats he is talking about!

We must assume he doesn't want to brain one in the head with a marble and kill it?
Or shoot it's eye out with an olive pit or paint ball and rack up a huge vet bill?

The best solution I can think of if you don't want your cats killing everything that lands near your bird feeder?

1. Keep the dang cats in the house!!
2. Or Stop feeding the dang birds and luring them into a cat death trap!

I'm more a dog guy, but I love all animals, big or small.
But I simply hate feral cats people let run loose killing everything they can sneak up on in the neighborhood.

The neighbors feral cats kill all the baby Cottontail rabbets born in the Pampa grass next door every year before they get their legs working under them!
They kill all the song birds attracted to my ice-free garden ponds all winter when everything else is under snow & ice for months.

I hate them, but I would never even consider shooting them with a paintball gun, air-soft gun, BB gun, or a sling-shot!
Because there is never a good no-risk shot at a cat.
They have eyes that are Always Wide Open, and most usually looking straight at you when you catch them in the act.


IMO: It is irresponsible pet ownership to let them run loose doing what cats are born to do.

Shooting them with anything is not going to change thousands of years of evolution!
Unless you kill them, or maim them, or blind them so that can't do what they do any longer.

rc

 

[Plastikosmd]

What about one of those air horns in a can? That will take any cat out of their hunt mode for a short time with less injury

 

[Dmitri Popov]

Shock collar...

 

[Navy_Guns]

Water balloon - I think we have a winner! Thank you!

 

[Ghosth]

Get yourself a 4' .40 caliber blowgun, it will shoot paintballs and do a fine job of scaring the cats. And at a more reasonable price also! Should be able to find one online for 10-12$.

Otherwise you might look at a slingshot. A good one might set you back 15- 20$.

Both platforms are great for less than lethal application of force.

Or of course you can build your own. a 3' piece of half inch pvc makes a very good short range blowgun.

 

[ChaoSS]

Water gun? Or can you turn the sprinklers on?

 

[hso]

Lay out the hose with a motion activated sprinkler and any animal that comes near the feeder gets doused. It has the advantages of being on-duty all the time and won't hurt the cat.


http://video.about.com/landscaping/How-to-Repel-Cats-From-Your-Garden.htm
after 1:20

 

[CWL]

How about just moving the bird feeder to a location where the cats can't get at?

You can also buy a better airsoft gun with better range.

I think that if you start blasting your cats with paintballs, they're going to start tacking the paint inside the house. Washable or not, it could lead to a mess.

 

[glistam]

I saw this thread title and took an interest for reasons completely unrelated to the OP's. Do such guns exist? For me, I was more interested in the prospect of a very large-bored air gun, even if not especially powerful, that didn't rely having to obtain CO2 cylinders or having them recharged. For little other reason than I like being self-sufficient.

 

[somoss]

cat bib

http://catgoods.com/

I've seen it and it works. Your cats will lose all resepect from neighborhood cats.

 

[Navy_Guns]

somoss - HAHAHA! A mudflap to hang on your cat! Oh, that's funny!

 

[hso]

Anything that works without resorting to hurting the kitty...

 

[hso]

Shooting any projectile (whether paintball or pellet) at the cats endangers the cat since hitting the eye is always a risk. It also requires you to be in an overwatch role the entire time the cats are out. That makes any projectile approach impractical.

The cat bib or water hose approaches are mitigating the problem of the cats preying on birds at your feeder. You might fence the feeder off with a solar powered electric fence or put a wireless noise/shock collar on the cats and adjust the range so they can't approach the feeder.

Removing the cats from the area of the feeder or removing the feeder from the area the cats access is addressing the root problem of trying to allow them to have access to the area you're, essentially, baiting birds to.