The American boom trap

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Peter Scott

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The device was first used in December 1948 by Herbert H. Dill and William H. Thornsberry at the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sumner, Missouri. They had decided to use a net propelled by projectiles fired from mortars and had begun experiments with it before hearing of the Trust's rocket-propelled nets. One of the boom traps is controlled by about 400 yards of electric lead from a silo tower, and it had been fired only half an hour before for a catch of thirty-two geese.

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Scott, P. (1952). The American boom trap. Wildfowl, 72–77. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/article/view/155436
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Severn Wildfowl Trust Fifth Annual Report
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Waterfowl Collection

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