Carpenter 🐝 are in season!

[PappyHoel]

Aguila rat shot works good

 

[Bobby Linton]

I tried the cci with the blue pill of shot. Just cost too much. I haven't seen the old crimp top rat shot in years.

 

[j_seph]

So you openly admit on a public forum that you use A SALT WEAPON on bees?

 

[Bobby Linton]

Yep. A-salt-weapon is the name brand if I recall.

 

[PappyHoel]

I tried the cci with the blue pill of shot. Just cost too much. I haven't seen the old crimp top rat shot in years.

Yeah those are what I meant. They sound like a B.B. Gun

 

[wvdawg]

Yep. A-salt-weapon is the name brand if I recall.

Yep! Bug-A-Salt

80 shots before you have to reload!

 

[brunofishing]

Got one on the way!!

 

[Cook&Bro]

I have carpenter bee traps, work very well.

But that Bug-A-Salt looks like a must have ...

 

[transfixer]

red ryder bb gun. There is almost nothing more satisfying.

When I was a kid I used a red ryder also, those things never had a lot of power, but it was enough to take down a carpenter bee , I got fairly decent at hitting them too, haven't tried it since then, but I'll have to check this salt gun out !

 

[GunnSmokeer]

If I had a safe place to shoot these (the correct angle, firing out into the yard or woods) without peppering my own house and windows with the tiny birdshot, I'd love to try some.

They ought to work good at just a couple yards' range.

 

[GunnSmokeer]

price

I just saw the price of those CCI .22 long rifle shotshells was something like $10 for a box of 20.

That's expensive !!!

I wonder if you could make your own insect-killing shotshells for a revolver or single-shot .22 rifle by using a .22 blank nail-propelling cartridge (from the hardware store) and putting a small amount of salt, rice, cat litter (clay), or just clean pool filter sand between a few bits of tissue paper as wadding. One wad between the blank round and the "shot charge," and the other on top of it to keep it from falling out the muzzle as you handle or aim the gun.

I might not want to blast sand down the barrel of some of my rimfire guns, but I have a well-worn Ruger 10/22 barrel that I replaced with an aftermarket match barrel years ago. I wouldn't mind scratching that bore up a little bit.

If I had one of those Heritage Arms .22 single-action revolvers that only cost about $140 brand new, I'm sure I'd be willing to try to make some homemade insect-killing loads for it, even if the shot payload was abrasive.

 

[Hunter/Mason]

I have the bug a salt don’t work as good as an old gamo break barrel pellet gun I have. Take a tiny piece of notebook paper roll it into a ball that will push in like a pellet and close the barrel. I found mixing rock salt and table salt works best. Just put a pinch down the barrel hours of fun and will knock em down close to 10yds. You can also shoot tward the house this way

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

slingshot all the way

 

[BowArrow]

Short range use tennis racquet

Longer range and my favorite is long handle minnow net. Easy to scoop out of air.

Long range use 22 bird shot.

 

[dslc6487]

Salt gun does not work for mr. Waste of money. Bee has to be right at end of barrel to get him. I catch them in long fine mesh fins net and then stomp on them. Very disappointed in salt gum

 

[Para Bellum]

I like it when they actually go through the racket.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Wow !