He fires a 15 mm red cartridge, a "banger," from his cap pistol and it flies about 200 feet into the field. It explodes with a flash of light for two seconds.
"It sounds like a gunshot," he said.
He fires another cartridge, a yellow one called a "screamer." It also flies 200 feet, but it leaves a trail of smoke and whistles like a bottle rocket along the way.
Mr. Smith is a U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife biologist demonstrating...
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