Anyone have a netgun?

[CD24]

I recently met a guy that owned a netgun. Unfortunately now I might need a netgun. Anyone have any experience with them or know which is best? I feel like any time this thing leaves the house it ends in hilarity.

 

[Woodcarver]

What caliber was it? Is it CRF?

Might be a fun addition!

 

[R eight]

It would be easy to get caught up in that net gun craze.

 

[ActionBob]

I recently met a guy that owned a netgun. Unfortunately now I might need a netgun. Anyone have any experience with them or know which is best? I feel like any time this thing leaves the house it ends in hilarity.

I need one too... but I need a double barreled

 

[ActionBob]

I need one too... but I need a double barreled

And a herd of monkeys!

Well more realistically I probably need @Royal27 in the passenger seat of my Polaris General with a double barrel net gun while we chase down the rogue raccoons on the new place in Texas

 

[CD24]

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[375 Ruger Fan]

Can you use or modify a tee shirt launcher? Or perhaps just get a 6.5 Creedmoor, because it can do everything better!

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[R.M.C.]

They look like a lot of fun, not sure where to get one lol

 

[A Frame66]

I've got one ,they shoot a 308 blank, not sure right off the top of my head on the manufacturer, but we've used it to catch deer with.

 

[BeeMaa]

This would be useful for selling birds for live pigeon shoots.

 

[CD24]

I've got one ,they shoot a 308 blank, not sure right off the top of my head on the manufacturer, but we've used it to catch deer with.

did you buy it new or used? They are pretty expensive!

 

[A Frame66]

Got it new had it for while. I'm on the road right now but I will post up a few pics of it and the net when I get home.

 

[fourfive8]

I've got one ,they shoot a 308 blank, not sure right off the top of my head on the manufacturer, but we've used it to catch deer with.

If it is the heavy duty one with four barrels it may have been made by a company in New Zealand. Currently I think that company making them is called Netgun or something similar. This model is based on a Remington 700 action. They are fairly heavy and fire a heavy net drawn by 4 fairly heavy projectiles. These are not toys... serious tools for large big game animals. I saw the results of an errant shot with one out a helicopter. The gunner's shot was at a slightly high angle, he lost track of the rotor and one of the projectiles took a chunk out of a rotor blade. My understanding was it was a white knuckle ride to the ground with a seriously vibrating, out of balance blade. OhhhhOOhhh yeowie!

 

[Philip Glass]

I recently met a guy that owned a netgun. Unfortunately now I might need a netgun. Anyone have any experience with them or know which is best? I feel like any time this thing leaves the house it ends in hilarity.

When I was younger I worked on game capture teams. The net gun is an interesting tool. It is not a toy however and shoots out heavy weights on the ends of the net. It is such a pain to untangle nets full of thorns and prickly pear!

 

[fourfive8]

The serious ones are awkward, heavy, have quite a bit or recoil, obviously somewhat limited range and require practice to get decent results. Those net drawing projectiles require safety consideration. Target animals are occasionally injured by the projectiles or from entanglement when running or from falling in steep terrain.

 

[A Frame66]

Mine is a Coda brand. And yes it's a mess to untangle nets and you damn sure don't won't to take one of these SS weights to the dome!

 

[CD24]

Mine is a Coda brand. And yes it's a mess to untangle nets and you damn sure don't won't to take one of these SS weights to the dome!

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an absolute must have!

 

[Sideshow]

lol this brings back a few memories…..back in the 80s when deer farm started in NZ we had one of the first North Islands deer farms as a neighbor.
The price of deer went off the chart and the guy need a new stag so got this company to come in fly up into the hills and get him his new blood line.
Sure enough they came back with this stag stropped up under the chopper.
Landed and stuck him in the dock room for a week.
Most of the neighbors turned up to have a look.
About a week later they let the stag up. He came out of the shed took a run round his paddock and jumped clean over the deer fence.
He hung around for a bit in the bush at the back of Dads before duck shooting season kicked off and he swam the river and headed back to the hills.
The next roar though Dad went down to get the cows which were over by the neighbors side. One of those April foggy mornings where all you see are brown blobs. He’s like funny looking cow there got a bloody coat hanger coming out the top of his head. Old mate remember where all the girls were lol. Keith opened the gate and he went straight on in beat the living daylights out of his stag which had no horns the jumped the fence again….

Think the first net guns were made with old sawn off 303. Took out a few choppers too

 

[Sideshow]

Here ya go.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15804/live-capture-by-net-gun

Need lots of team work. If the pilot dipped when the gunner fired he could end up with the net in the props

 

[fourfive8]

The one I'm familiar with was not a Coda brand but very similar. It was a 308 blank firing Remington 700 platform with recoil absorbing stock, 4 barrels/4 projectile net. The pic posted of the New Zealand operation shows a net fired from a Hughes 500 chopper. I can't tell from the pic whether it was shoulder fired or machine fired but it certainly looks like one of the projectiles came pretty close to the rotor blade zone of rotation- too close for comfort! Pic added below

The incident I posted about earlier in this thread where a co-worker of mine (name and location withheld to protect the guilty) fired a net gun at a target animal, one of the weights hit a rotor blade and knocked a chunk out of it. He was capturing animals in one of the most rugged locations on the planet. The target animals are known for their mastery of that near vertical terrain. The capture was part of a predator-prey research project requiring radio collaring of the animals. I can't remember the type of chopper but likely a Bell 206, less likely a Hughes 500. Typically the door is removed and the gunner is harnessed and leans far out for taking shots. Similar techniques are used for darting.