[TheForge] [YAK] Re: electric "firecracker"??? OT

[Mike Spencer]

Not electronic but:

Years ago we strung gill net across the back of the field.  That's
monofilament net about 8' high by 200' wide, 2" or so mesh.  Just
haphazardly strung it up on sticks, bushes, young spruce or poplar
trees.  And we netted a deer who squealed and thrashed quite a lot
before getting loose and bouncing off into the woods.

No I dunno if deer pass the word or hand tales down to younger
generations or just pass on the habit of avoiding a certain spot, but
ever since, the deer come out of the woods and walk along the north
side of the field, turn south and graze along the east side of the
field and then go back into the woods.  They haven't hit the gardens
for years.

But then there's also the coffee cans full of stale piss we set out
near the back corners of the gardens, too.

Here, porcupines and (in some years) coons do more harm than deer.
People just a couple or so miles away, however, simple can't have a
garden unless it's copletely surrounded by a 10' fence.

Back to the original question:  How about a carbide cannon connected
to infrared sensors?  Don't tell me deer will get used to *that*.
There was a Japanese company selling ines meant for rice paddies that,
IIRC, was called a "Scarer Boom" in the catalog.

FWIW,
- Mike

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