[jhein]

No, no, not like that. I used a CO2 powered launcher. It's like a paintball gun. Similar to a Byrna launcher. It's .68 caliber and it can launch solid nylon, pepper or other rounds at around 350fps.

The reason I resorted to this is because these two dogs (both bullmastiffs), relentlessly harass me and my dogs. The female is very aggressive and once broke into my property and had a scuffle with my female who chased her away. Then, before I could get my fence fixed, she came in and charged me. I sprayed her with pepper spray and she ran. Since those events, they became much more aggressive. I fixed the damage to my fence so they can't get in anymore (for now). But, they still charge up to the fence nearly every time we're out there.. Not only is it very annoying, but it's dangerous. Even though they can't get in, "fence fighting" is still dangerous. My dogs are Rottweilers and they don't have a fight or flight response, it's just strictly the fight part. My male got a laceration to the inside of his lip once already.

Initially, I started using bear spray. That worked temporarily the first time I sprayed the female. But after that, they became very cagey. They stay back out of range when I'm at the fence.

So all that has led to the air pistol. This morning I hit them each in the side of the chest, one round each with solid nylon balls. Neither of them yelped but they both turned and ran when hit. Normally after I try to spray them, they come back after a couple minutes. This time they stayed away, so we'll see. The next level will be be pepper rounds. If that doesn't work, then I'm considering installing another line of fence 20-30 feet back from my fence line and would run about 400 feet long. That would not be on my property. It's privately owned timber land. So that's probably illegal. Problems...