Cannon-Netting Deer
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 32 (1) , 191-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3798258
Abstract
A cannon-net was used to capture semitame and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on 4 areas in southern Illinois and wild fallow deer (Dama dama) on one area in southwestern Kentucky. Cannon-nets were fired electrically over prebaited areas in the following ways: waiting for deer to approach the bait site and firing the cannons from a blind or a tree stand; setting an automatic trigger 12-15 in. over the bait; when the trigger was tripped by feeding deer, the cannons fired; and firing the cannons from 200-300 yards away when deer were at the bait. Forty-nine attempts were made to capture deer with the cannon-net. These attempts proceeded on 18 occasions to firing the cannon; 11 of these firings were successful in trapping deer (26 whitetails and 7 fallows). Twelve of the deer were semitame and 21 were wild. No mortality resulted from use of the cannon-net itself.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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