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A dart gun is an air rifle that fires a dart. [1] The dart is tipped with a hypodermic needle and filled with a sedative , [ 2 ] vaccine [ 3 ] or antibiotic . [ 4 ] A dart gun containing a sedative is called a tranquillizer gun ( also spelled tranquilizer gun , tranquilliser gun or tranquiliser gun ), derived from the word "tranquil", which ...
Green hunting (also eco-hunting, green bullet concept, green darting or darting safari) is the practice of tracking and shooting game animals with non-lethal tranquilizer guns [1] or bows [2] and subsequently releasing the captured animals alive.
A captive bolt pistol (also known as a captive bolt gun, a cattle gun, a stunbolt gun, a bolt gun, a stun gun and a stunner) is a device used for the stunning of animals prior to slaughter. The goal of captive bolt stunning is to inflict a forceful strike on the forehead with the bolt in order to induce unconsciousness .
Another powerful animal tranquilizer has made its way into street drugs, added to illicit fentanyl and other opioids to prolong a user’s high. The drug, called medetomidine, is linked to a ...
[2] [3] To reload the gun the operator has to un-mount the barrel, replace the CO 2-cartridge, insert a new dart into the short barrel and mount the long barrel again on to the body of the gun. The gun sight of the SAC-46 is a simple iron sight with a fixed front sight and a flip sight on the back of the gun. The flip sight has markings for 50 ...
It is typically administered in this context by tranquilizer dart. [1] Carfentanil has also been used in humans to image opioid receptors. [1] It has additionally been used as a recreational drug, typically by injection, insufflation, or inhalation. [1] Deaths have been reported in association with carfentanil. [1] [2]
Mixtec blowgun Tlacalhuazcuahuitl depicted in the Codex Bodley. Many cultures have used such a weapon, but various indigenous and aboriginal peoples of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, North America, Central America (the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala), and South America (the Amazon Basin and the Guianas) are best known for its historical usage.
Meprobamate—marketed as Miltown by Wallace Laboratories and Equanil by Wyeth, among others—is a carbamate derivative used as an anxiolytic drug. It was the best-selling minor tranquilizer for a time, but has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepines due to their wider therapeutic index (lower risk of toxicity at therapeutically prescribed doses) and lower incidence of serious side effects.