less-than-lethal gun for Stellars Jays

You could try a low-powered sling shot and spit wads. You could also get one of the super soakers and add a dab of ammonia to the water.
 
my airforce Condor in .22 with predator pellets and a 4-16x55mm mil-dot scope, that would solve the problem from about 50 yards out or more, if you get really good with it, 75-100 yards, they would be dead before they heard the shot. We have litterally millions of squirrels where we live and they are such pests, its gotten to a point where its ALMOST work having "target practice" with them. I take the screnes out of one of my bay windows and set up the bipod on the landing there, I could take them all day long if I had that kind of time
 
Cats to me are the real pests. One used to hide in the bushes jump out and frighten the beautiful birds and squirrels. It never occurred to me to shoot the cat with an airgun however. I have never seen squirrels engage in pest-like behavior. I'm sure they will raid gardens and enter homes that are not in good repair, but if there are millions, shooting a few is going to solve either problem. This is the kind of thing that gives gun owners a bad name.

Don't mean to be insulting, but just think about it. I am not animal rights wacko, but I think it was Ted Nugent who said, only shoot what you are going to eat. BTW I was born in UP Michigan, so I am homeboy.
 
My first real job was working third shift in a factory. I adapted pretty well to sleeping in the daytime until a woodpecker decided the wall of my bedroom was a good place to practice his pecking. It was like being inside a giant drum. No way I could possibly learn to sleep through that. He would hammer for a minute or two and then fly away and come back in half an hour and wake me up again, and kept it up all day, day after day....

My family would lean out the bathroom window and yell and wave at him and scare him away, but he still kept coming back. So I got out my old Daisy spring-powered BB gun and loaded it up and put it next to the bathroom window, figuring it wouldn't injure him but it would sting a little. We were all pretty good shots, and it wasn't long range....

Shooting him would make him fly away, but anything would make him fly away. It didn't make him stop coming back.

It went on day after day. I wasn't getting any sleep; I was going to lose my job or my health or my sanity.... Finally I decided it was him or me, one of us was not going to make it. I didn't want to shoot a hole in the house, but my brother had a CO2-powered Crosman .22 pellet gun. I borrowed it from him, loaded it up and sighted it in. It was deadly accurate and had plenty of power to kill a woodpecker. I set it by the bathroom window and waited . . . . . . . . . . . .

Never saw that woodpecker again. Maybe he knew somehow -- maybe he was psychic ... maybe somehow he knew if he came back he was going to be killed.
 
As has been said, the airsoft solution will be temporary at best. As long as they are getting some food, they will keep returning when the sting wears off and you turn your head for a second. You will have to guard the feeder 24/7 and you don't have enough caffeine for that. So all you will be doing is an elaborate form of target practice (that is a bit unethical).

I bet you can set up a feeder that will exclude the Jays. A squirrel can get into almost anything, so it should be quite possible to design something that will work. Maybe something that has to be entered by climbing up into it from the bottom.
 
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