For those who are interested, just for example, the pneudart company has a range of products from the bottom line blow guns,
to the crazy AR-15 looking camo wrapped gauged projectors.
The decision behind each one is not only budget but reliability. For many folks I know this meant using the air-activated where
you pump the air in much like the old bb guns. The bonus is you know 7 pumps projects "X" feet and you can practice for that.
With the cartridge type you never know exactly when your last shot is going to fall short so that is one downside. You can always
be conservative and practice so you know after 6 shots, throw the cartridge away and put a new one in. Then you have the serious
expensive but great gauged projectors, these allow you to know how much air you have and you can enter the amount of air you
want for your shots to be sure you have exactly the amount you need for your practiced distance.
Above all the training and field work I did through the years, what was repeated was practice practice practice. The instructor of
the one course who had worked on everything from bison to wolves and african wildlife species, would keep his equipment at
his office and every day make time at lunch while eating a sandwich to shoot at designated distances with the projector of choice
and with darts weighted for the drug dosages.
Just like anyone who takes their pistol, rifle, shotgun, or bow seriously, practice makes for a great marksmen.
Cody, if you are interested, look into Mark Johnson's class (global wildlife resources out of bozeman) or safe capture which is given
all over the country. I took Mark's class 2 times over 10 years while I have colleagues who took safe capture. The difference is no
live animal practice situation like you get in mark's, otherwise they both agree each of them teaches a solid foundation.
It could lead beyond hogs if you get serious, so this way you have a cert, that many animal control people have to have, etc...for county
city, state, fed.
Hope that helps, their site seems a bit slow, but might be my MAC.
Best,
Justin
http://shop.pneudart.com/air-activated/http://shop.pneudart.com/gauged-projectors/http://shop.pneudart.com/cartridge-fired/