well Im down to my 1100 ft per second pellet gun with a fairly decent scope. deadly at up to 30 yards. Neighbors dont hear it so good. the best one I had was an electric bird feeder. That would light em up good. I wired two small transformers that each were capable of boosting 120 volts to 480. in series it would just under a 1000 volts. the bird feeder had a mesh mat with a mesh cage around it, isolated from each of course. never left it hot all the time. I wired it to switch in the house. MY wife thought it was inhumane and I had to agree. They would catch on fire. One time one fell out of the feeder and caught the leaves on fore and almost burnt up my deck