N.Z. RIFLE CHOSEN
fN.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Sept. 20.
A “flying dart” rifle developed by a Timaru firm has been chosen for a deer-catch-ing exhibition to be given in Britain on October 8 to members of the British Deer Society. The rifle, developed by Paxarm, Ltd, of Timaru, fires' long-range syringes filled with a drug which temporar-i ily knocks out the deer.
Mr V. J. A. Manton, curator of the Whipsnade Zoo, said it was a very useful weapon in the hands of an expert.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33027, 21 September 1972, Page 3
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