At that range, absolutely. A blank will blow a sizable hole in a rat or mole. People die every year from the perception that blanks are “safe”; aside from any barrel debris or wadding that may be ejected, they are still completely lethal at very close ranges because of the pressure wave.
For what it’s worth, you can buy blank refills for mole traps / nail guns at my local supermarket and they are in fact right next to the rat poison and air fresheners.
Fascinating; I bet our urban grocery stores have more holistic options and, behind the curtains, large-scale commercial solutions. Somewhere in the middle is the perfect store, where a man can choose every option on how to kill rodents while making that lingering smell in his car a little more tolerable.
But you could defintely run this with shotshells full of rat shot, and that would upgrade it from ‘probably’ to ‘certainly’ while still being reasonably safe-ish.
Would a blank still kill the mouse/rat?
A blank can and has killed humans at that range so I would think so, but I don’t claim to be either a gun or a rodent expert
A blank at that range will most certainly kill a rodent. It’s the violent shock that will do the job.
At that range, absolutely. A blank will blow a sizable hole in a rat or mole. People die every year from the perception that blanks are “safe”; aside from any barrel debris or wadding that may be ejected, they are still completely lethal at very close ranges because of the pressure wave.
So outside of being loud, expensive, messy, overkill, and dangerous, what is the downside?
Actually, I kind of wish this did catch on for more grocery aisle acceptable type items. Like right next to rat poison and car air fresheners.
For what it’s worth, you can buy blank refills for mole traps / nail guns at my local supermarket and they are in fact right next to the rat poison and air fresheners.
Fascinating; I bet our urban grocery stores have more holistic options and, behind the curtains, large-scale commercial solutions. Somewhere in the middle is the perfect store, where a man can choose every option on how to kill rodents while making that lingering smell in his car a little more tolerable.
We have traps for moles with blanks
Inside their hole that’s more than enough
At that range, probably.
But you could defintely run this with shotshells full of rat shot, and that would upgrade it from ‘probably’ to ‘certainly’ while still being reasonably safe-ish.
Yep. It’s a old-school black powder revolver. Stuff about anything in there and it’ll do a rat at that range.