Carpenter bee loads
A thing I did not know I needed. But I’d totally try them.
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November 3rd, 2014 at 8:56 pm
We used to try to shoot them with BB guns… 🙂
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:03 pm
The bug-a-salt won’t work on them?
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:24 pm
No, the carpenter bees just seem fascinated by it. But they’re fun.
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:50 pm
The Marlin 25MG is purpose-made for this game.
They tell me they’re good eating–if you fix ’em right.
November 3rd, 2014 at 9:56 pm
HL and I hammered them in the early summer. It’s really fun.
November 3rd, 2014 at 10:45 pm
Lizard Litter (ground walnut shells) works great.
November 4th, 2014 at 12:05 am
A few years ago, I remember a review in the American Rifleman of a .22 shotgun – a true smoothbore specifically for shooting .22 shotshells. They used it on bees, and as I recall it seemed to work pretty well. In the smoothbore, the shot held a better pattern than ina rifled barrel.
November 4th, 2014 at 12:30 am
Airsoft full auto 6mm pellet gun. The ones that shoot the blue plastic pellets.
I’d send the kids into an old pole barn at our hunting lease – they’d be gone for at least an hour.
November 4th, 2014 at 9:00 am
357 loaded with a grain of any pistol powder and the rest full of walnut media works great. You can use gasket material from any auto parts store to plug the end.
It makes a very effective Carpenter Bee Shotgun good to about 10 feet. And it you shoot your wife’s foot, no harm done…well, except for the cussing.
We started the summer with a lot of carpenter bees, but ran out very quickly once the S&W Trooper came into play.
November 4th, 2014 at 9:26 am
The poison of choice is a dust you can blow into their holes before sealing them up. If you don’t poison them they’ll just chew their way out. I don’t think I would load that into a shotshell.
I ended up having to pull down a boatload of trim from my house because the building contractor decided to be cheap and lazy and not paint the backside of the wood if it was not visible. The bees get into the cracks and did the rest.
Before replacing the wood, give everything two good coats of curb-shopped outdoor paint, then topcoat with your choice of color. Paint the ends of the boards too, and caulk every crack.
Then don’t tell your neighbors so the bees go over to their house instead.
November 4th, 2014 at 3:13 pm
I first read that entirely wrong, and was wondering why a carpenter would be shooting bees at something…
November 4th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
(“… the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?”)
November 4th, 2014 at 8:17 pm
“The poison of choice is a dust you can blow into their holes before sealing them up.”
Delta Dust. Or the Generic – http://www.amazon.com/D-Fense-Deltamethrin-Dust-Generic-Delta/dp/B007AIE8OY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1415146587&sr=8-2&keywords=deltamethrin
Does one hell of a job on yellow jackets as well.
November 4th, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Stocked Crosman 1377 with Leapers Bug Buster scope. RWS Hobby 7.0 grain wadcutters.
Great for big game (grasshoppers) as well.