Remote firing air rifle

[emin-j]

Remote controlled pan & tilt camera mount on tripod, King ratty fixed to mount, scope with either ip camera attached with ir and WiFi, or diy night vision with remote screen, trigger operated by cable to a gear/brake type lever, single shot manual load.

[MartynB]

What you need is one of those Remote Sentry Guns they had in Aliens - make a bit of a mess of your house though

[Steyr]

Just had a brainwave......



Move.......

[emin-j]

Just had a brainwave......



Move.......

Lol it’d be like the pied piper

[peddy]

We are in the middle of a terrace so they could be coming from anywhere really, up the drainpipe along the guttering and under the tiles maybe but I don’t know where they’re feeding. I’ve had my trail cam in the loft and have seen one fully grown and two teens so far, they seem to be nesting under the loft boarding.

Hell they could be using the cavity as a motorway and pop up anywhere in the house! Wouldn't waste time with the gun set up, get em live trapped, then shoot them.

[Mr.Fixit-Norm]

Might be an idea to find out if any of the next door neighbours are having problems as well ! If they are or find out they are, you might be able to club together and get a professional exterminator in...just a thought.

How you ask them might well depend on how well you get on with them

Norm

[emin-j]

It’s a 1900’s house so no cavity walls, have asked one neighbor but he’s not heard anything, they’re still eating the poison but no sign of the smaller ones on the trail cam but there’s a whopper up there
emailed the council pest control today but could be a wait of up to 8 weeks ! Could be another lot by then !

[Mr.Fixit-Norm]

How about trying one of those sonic animal repellers ? I’ve got one that has 4 different frequencies and one of them is supposed to keep rodents away.
Mice and rats have very acute hearing so it might be worth a go.

I’ve got this one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0077LW0...740111_TE_item

If you read down it does cats, dogs, foxes and rodents.

Norm

[Riffler]

Do you have any experience with these ? Have read varying reviews on these.

No first hand experience, only what you see in the links.
They are eye wateringly expensive but would appear to be selective and effective.
More certain that shooting them with an airgun, working 24/7 and no collateral damage.

[aris]

I’m sure this has been done. Someone tried to sell deer stalking in the US via a webcam and rifle mounted on a PTZ type mount. Caused an uproar.

[pigeondave]

You need something with an electronic trigger
just swap the gun out

Step by Step Guide http://www.instructables.com/id/Nerf...-Gun/?ALLSTEPS
Code and Project http://www.paintballsentrygun.com/
Servo database http://www.servodatabase.com/advanced-search
Set Up http://youtu.be/VS0j8_z-EZo

I got all the bits together but me an my mate started more serious MTB ing

[emin-j]

You need something with an electronic trigger
just swap the gun out

Step by Step Guide http://www.instructables.com/id/Nerf...-Gun/?ALLSTEPS
Code and Project http://www.paintballsentrygun.com/
Servo database http://www.servodatabase.com/advanced-search
Set Up http://youtu.be/VS0j8_z-EZo

I got all the bits together but me an my mate started more serious MTB ing

Interesting stuff pigeondave, my Son came in today and I mentioned the remote rifle and he started talking about radio controlled servos as used in model making etc but it would have to take the weight of a gun and NV, are pan and tilt servos available for this job ?

[Hadgee]

Have a look at Arduino or Raspberry pi and stepper motors for movement/control. With raspberry you can use a pi noir camera with ir leds for illumination. All controlled via wifi

[pigeondave]

Interesting stuff pigeondave, my Son came in today and I mentioned the remote rifle and he started talking about radio controlled servos as used in model making etc but it would have to take the weight of a gun and NV, are pan and tilt servos available for this job ?

If you have the servo tilt near the centre of gravity/balance of the rifle its not going to need to be too big.
same goes for the pan.
This version uses the servo directly controlling the pan, you can design it to be used on a ring gear so you get a mechanical advantage.

My friend and I got most of the bits together but never got round to assembly.
He's a bit of a computer wizz and thought that he could run it off a raspberryPI (its all geek to me)

[MartynB]

My friend and I got most of the bits together but never got round to assembly.
He's a bit of a computer wizz and thought that he could run it off a raspberryPI (its all geek to me)

He's probably right, amazing what you can do with a raspberryPI if you can program it