You can certainly use bones. You will need to attach a handle to the bone (probably using FindChild and the name of the bone) and then manipulate it as a normal entity. Note that you will need to do manipulations after UpdateWorld, as bones snap to their keyframe positions at UpdateWorld.
how to manipulate mesh bones
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