Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game Front porch lizard load

An invitation to over active imaginations: I have a lizard (small) on the front porch and imagine conventional loads of any style have potential to damage my property or adjacent properties/people. That said, I can shoot legally on the property and somewhat in the spirit of handloads for carpenter bees, what might you kluge together for idle amusement? Rice? Grits?

Let your thoughts run wild please, and for the love of god don't tell me to buy a BB gun. I'm leaning toward a quick draw scenario with a S&W .38 snubby.

Yes, I appreciate that lizards eat bugs. However these are illegal immigrants AND they are chittin' on the porch furniture.

Dan on the Group W bench

Rubber bullets.

Don't shoot at Christmas tree ornaments on the tree in the house with them though, they will go through sheet rock.

I didn't but yes, a bud did. His wife weren't amused when it was going on and really wasn't amused when she took the tree down and there were holes in the rock!!


Should work for lizards though.

Or shot capsules with #12s.


Personally though I would use my BPS 10 bore loaded with 2 1/4 ounces of #4s. Plenty of penetration!!

Dang it, I don't have a 10 bore or any rubber bullets. I'm guessing most everything I have at present will either over-penetrate or leave a greasy smudge on the concrete.

I like the rubber bullet idea too!
I've never tried them but Midway has them,X-ring link

It's for science and progress!

What's the likely range to be? Wax bullets with just the primer probably would work.

Web, that's an interesting thought. 5-6' most time and I got wax...boy howdy do I have wax!

C'dog, I don't think I could afford a single shot with the rubber bullets. ~.30 per each and due to surroundings I'll get one shot per bullet and they will be gone...

' Bout 3/8 to 1/2"Summer Grade BPCR lube , over Wheatena cereal,.....you'll have to store em' nose down.
Card wad over the powder charge.

GTC

Pull the bullets from .22 LR and fill with Elmer's glue or melted wax. Let it harden. We used it to shoot boring bees at the old camp.

Works well on younger brothers also.

Thanks all, seeing another reason to move forward on the .22 CF project....might outght to call it the .22 Splattermatic?. Brotherly Love?

I would go the wax bullet/209 Primer route-- 38 SP or 357 Mag would be quite adequate.

I have a set of these I've shot in in my Ruger Blackhawk. You're not going to get great accuracy, but they will hit a can at 10 feet and that's roughly minute-of-lizard.

i'd forgotten about wax bullets my son and i used to have fun with them in a S&W chief.

Ed

Shaman, why the 209 and how'd you arrange for that in a pistol case?

You need to drill out the flash hole for primer powered loads. If not, the primer will set back tying up the cylinder.

...how about a salt gun. Takes the fun out of tinkering toward your present project, but it will sting like hell.

The salt guns that shoot small powdered pepper spray/ tear gas balls are expensive but sure would put a sting on their. Lizard arses and eyes.

Maybe mix up your own mild version for a squirt gun?? Lizard napalm, without the fiery explosion.

Damn Invasive dinosaurs....just hang up a flyer about the coming meteor apocalypse. Alittle psyop action. If they remember the first one, maybe theyll blow town.

Toothpick flechettes..........

12, 16 or 20?

This could be fun..........

38 spcl, grain or so of Bullseye, card or fibre wad, toothpicks cut so they don't protrude past case mouth, stack the picks in the case until ONE more will hold them in without falling out......

BIC lighter & a can of Right Guard.

Alternately quote Robert Duvall & Arlo Guthrie as you apply.