That's cool as heck, I've never heard of those before!

I have heard reference frkm "The Old Days" of a "Getter Gun". That might have been it.

Here it is in action. Guy in video has it a little out of order. You put the bait on BEFORE you load the .22LR. lol

… looks like a low success rate to me

… imagine the poison gitter guns worked much better

I could see a lot of critters getting wounded. Or me shooting myself with it.

Imagine the liability in our present day

What could possibly go wrong?

More often than not, they were baited with an apple or ear of corn for deer. The muzzle is only inches from the animals head so a 22 worked just fine.

I remember reading about a wilderness trapper that set one of those up at his trapping camp for a fox that kept coming through his yard at the same time he had an old bear pit trap that he reset because a bear was doing damage to his cabin, came back a few days later to find the bear dead from the set gun and the fox in the pit trap

Like always never knowing just what you will encounter on the trapline is what keeps me for one coming back to it every year