Reader's Digest 7/8月合併号の記事 "The Snake Charmers" からの引用です。
フロリダで外来種の蛇、"python" を駆除している女性の話です。
When hunters working for the wildlife commission catch pythons, they take them to a state laboratory in Davie. Some pythones are killed with a bolt gun and dissected for examination. Some are injected with a microchip for tracking and turned loose so they will lead the hunters and researchers to other snakes.
"bolt gun" は蛇を殺すための何か特殊な銃かと思い調べると、"bolt gun" は他にも名称が幾つかあり、Wikipediaには "captive bolt pistol" の項目があり、次の説明（抜粋）がありました。
・Wikipedia: A captive bolt (also variously known as a cattle gun, stunbolt gun, bolt gun, or stunner) is a device used for stunning animals prior to slaughter.
...
The captive bolt pistol was invented in 1903 by Dr. Hugo Heiss, former director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing, Germany.
一般の英英辞書ではMerriam-Websterだけに "captive bolt" の説明があるのを見つけました。
・Merriam-Webster: a gunlike instrument used in slaughtering animals that projects an attached plunger from the barrel.
用の銃があるのですね。
フロリダで外来種の蛇、"python" を駆除している女性の話です。
When hunters working for the wildlife commission catch pythons, they take them to a state laboratory in Davie. Some pythones are killed with a bolt gun and dissected for examination. Some are injected with a microchip for tracking and turned loose so they will lead the hunters and researchers to other snakes.
"bolt gun" は蛇を殺すための何か特殊な銃かと思い調べると、"bolt gun" は他にも名称が幾つかあり、Wikipediaには "captive bolt pistol" の項目があり、次の説明（抜粋）がありました。
・Wikipedia: A captive bolt (also variously known as a cattle gun, stunbolt gun, bolt gun, or stunner) is a device used for stunning animals prior to slaughter.
...
The captive bolt pistol was invented in 1903 by Dr. Hugo Heiss, former director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing, Germany.
一般の英英辞書ではMerriam-Websterだけに "captive bolt" の説明があるのを見つけました。
・Merriam-Webster: a gunlike instrument used in slaughtering animals that projects an attached plunger from the barrel.
用の銃があるのですね。
トータル
