A. Stunning Instruments using Free Bullets

STUNNING INSTRUMENTS USING FREE BULLETS

  • The one common objection to all such instruments is, should they be restive or suddenly moves its head, the bullet may deviate from its course and injure some one either by direct shot or miss hot.

Greener’s humane cattle killer: (Click here to view the picture)

  • Has a short rifled barrel, chambered to receive a cartridge with steel pointed bullet.
  • It is terminated by a bell shaped chamber, which serves to deaden the sound, protect the operator from the flash of the explosion and to direct the bullet through the brain into the spinal cord, thus avoiding the necessity of pitching.
  • The animal is killed instantaneously and can be bled without danger.
  • Animal sustains minimal suffering.
  • The pin that explodes the cartridge is struck with a wooden mallet.
  • The head of the animal must be in a suitable position and must be kept still.
  • Both the hands of the operator are required, one to hold the instrument in position and the other to strike the pin with the mallet.
  • It is dangerous to human being and other animals, if proper care is not taken, because it dislodges free bullets.
  • Lot of sound is generated which will scare other animals. The cylinder gets heated up quickly. So it cannot be used for many animals continuously

Swedish killer

  • Similar to Greener’s killer except that instead of a protecting cap, there is a spring on the firing pin which acts as a safety device.

Spragg pistol

  • A pistol firing a free bullet, which is discharged by pulling a trigger as in an ordinary pistol.

R.S.P.C.A. humane killer and slaughtering pistol

  • The slaughtering pistol consists of a revolver with a rounded, expander and which enables it to be pressed correctly upon a chosen spot.

The large humane cattle killer

  • It similar in principle, the revolver being mounted on a wooden shaft through which runs a wire attached to the trigger.
  • An advantage of the killer is that there is no risk of the animal falling against the operator.
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