This document discusses recent updates in darting techniques and equipment for capturing and restraining animals. It describes new dart gun technologies with interchangeable barrels and video capabilities. Lighter darts with tracking transmitters are mentioned. Net guns propelled by gas or blanks are reviewed as a physical restraint device. Conducted electrical weapons like Tasers that use barbed darts connected by wires to deliver pulses are also summarized, noting their effects and limited use for wildlife.
3. Before you shoot...!
Remote Injection system should be efficient and reliable
Precision - area should be less in small animals
Professional training
5. What's new
CO2 projectors usually travel at about 40 to 60 m/s
Cartridge propelled darts -113 m/s
Should follow manufacturer's recommendations
Calibrate every equipment
Facts
6. What's new (ctd.)
Dart guns with interchangeable barrels
Double-barrel dart gun
DAN-INJECT
either two identical barrels or an 11-mm barrel and a 13-mm
barrel
Remote-controlled, video-enabled dart guns
9. Darts
Small volume-lighter 5-milliliter
(mL) 11-mm slow air injection
Very-high-frequency (VHF)
transmitters
Pneu-Dart - extended range
signal may be received up to a
distance of 1000 meters
flashing LEDs
11. Available net guns
Super Talon Ultra
MagNet small animal net gun
NetGun-System Gladiator
Speed-7.5 m/s (20 ft/s to 25
ft/s)
12. Net gun captures of white-
tailed deer
Webb et al. in 2008
injury incidence -8.4%
capture-related mortality -
1.3%
signifcant experience is
required
14. CONDUCTED ELECTRICAL WEAPONS
Two gas-propelled, barbed darts
Connected to the main unit via wires that deliver pulsed
electrical currents to a target: Animal
target acting as a resistor or capacitor model
The pulse energy delivered - 0.9 and 10 Joules at a rate of 20
pulses /second
17. Depolarization of efferent 留-motor neurons and afferent sensory
neurons
TASER X3W Wildlife CEW
Moose, Brown bear, Collared peccary, Deer
Last option
Duration of exposure - less than 60 seconds
Successful experiments of underwater storage of cereal grains, at 30 m below the surface of Lake Biwa, had been previously made in Japan since May 1967