Thirty Nine confirmed kills

[Mobuck]

That's today's body count on carpenter bees using a 'mil-spec' backyard badminton racquet. I only count the ones that break in half, get stuck in the racquet, or I see them hit the ground and squish them with my boot. May have to drop down a gauge as this much repetitive 'shooting' makes my shoulder ache a bit.

 

[s4s4u]

I hereby award you the honor of ACE

 

[nrobe50]

When I seen 39 confirmed kills, my first thought was that is a lot of beer.

 

[JAYDAWG]

I hereby award you the honor of ACE

Na.....an ACE would have used a daisy BB gun

 

[29aholic]

Need a bug_a_salt gun

 

[ArizonaTea123]

If you're going to kill a lot of insects all at once, you need a "punt gun"

 

[Mobuck]

It's really 'sporting' to use a full auto air soft BUT the battery pack on mine has died.
Harkens back to the days of "G**KS in the wire"

 

[Rat76]

We dealt with ours a number of years ago. It's a full brick house & we up-armored with aluminum cladding on all exposed wood surfaces. worked quite well. Covered up the holes as a bonus.

The big problem now is Japanese Beetles.

 

[Deer Hunter]

Need a bug_a_salt gun

Carpenter bees are pretty tough. Is a Bug A Salt powerful enough. They are fun but, pretty short range.

 

[WanderLust]

Proper burials?

 

[MaxMan]

If you're going to kill a lot of insects all at once, you need a "punt gun"

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Punt guns Love them!

 

[MaxMan]

Does Hogue make a grip for that that might help the shoulder some. Hey mods this this a candidate for a new category in the forum?

 

[el caminero]

And mickey only got "seven in one blow!"

 

[el caminero]

Proper burials?

For 45 years i have used an old daisey i rebuilt, give it a few pumps. there was a gunwriter who also did, no bbs or pellets, just air pressure, real close. (stalking, always part of the hunt), he lamented he dosent have anything left for the taxidermiast to make trophys from.

 

[spud711]

That's today's body count on carpenter bees using a 'mil-spec' backyard badminton racquet. I only count the ones that break in half, get stuck in the racquet, or I see them hit the ground and squish them with my boot. May have to drop down a gauge as this much repetitive 'shooting' makes my shoulder ache a bit.

Try a wasp sticky trap, it works pretty good, for wasps anyway.

 

[MaxMan]

Get an a salt rifle

 

[Lt92]

Here in N Ga we use the traps...they work great and no "disposal" issues

 

[Mobuck]

I guess those 'traps' work for some. We spent $100 on carpenter bee traps and caught ZERO. Only thing that sort of reduces the number is weekly spraying but that gets messy and still isn't 100%.

 

[Deer Hunter]

If you're going to kill a lot of insects all at once, you need a "punt gun"

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Which of those guys do you think has the worst job?

 

[protoolman]

I've seen threads about loading primer powered corncob media in handguns for carpenter bees. Might check that out.