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Turkey Vulture Nuisance
I have hit foxes and coyotes hard enough with a blunt arrow to kill them. They would easily work on a vulture. If you already do archery, then this would surely work. If you don't do archery, this is a hard target to start on because of the launch angle.
I think that you could also poison them with varmint poison on some bait. I guess the problem with poison would be that they might go somewhere else to die and poison something else.
I had a problem with pack-rats a while back and eradicated them with an electric trap that I built with a neon sign transformer. This should work with vultures also.
These are nasty stinky birds, so they are a mess to deal with if you kill them.
As far as Airsoft is concerned, I think that they are accurate to about 10 yards. The pellets tend to curve off trajectory after that. I think that it would be difficult to hit reliably at 50 yds. I use Airsoft for close in training. They do make longer range rifles that might work, but I don't have any experience with them.
On industrial buildings they install little wire spikes on flat areas and crests to keep pigeons from roosting. Those are available at some electrical supply places because the cell phone people use them on their equipment.
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Turkey Vulture Nuisance
Any time you aim at a high elevation angle or down a steep slope the projectile does not drop as much as it does when shooting on a level surface. Your shots tend to hit high if your gun is sighted in at a particular distance.
Slow velocity guns and archery equipment make that problem worse. The good news is that the drop is consistent if you are shooting from a similar point and angle, so if you get the BB gun sighted in and hitting when shooting at the high angle it will be somewhat accurate at 50 yds. A rifled pellet gun will do better than a BB gun.
I think that you are going to have to do more than make noise. Eventually if you don't hit the birds, even if it is just an annoying "whack", then they won't respond.
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