INGENIOUS TRAP.
The ingenious way in which he had caused the death of a large wild pig which had killed 60 or 70 young lambs this season, and had been responsible in the past few years for the destruction of hundreds of sheep and lambs lias been told by Mr Robert Aitken, of the Macfarlane Downs Estate, Clydevale. On a wire fence on the estate lie rigged up a .303 rifle, pointing toward the ground and to the trigger he attached a length of piano wire which ran up through a pulley fixed to the base of the stock and then down to the earth, where it was firmly embedded. Anything which struck the piece of piano wire would instantly discharge the rifle. The ruse succeeded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 303, 21 November 1938, Page 9
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126INGENIOUS TRAP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 303, 21 November 1938, Page 9
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