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I'm guessing homemade shot loads with cornmeal or similar projectiles.
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Carpenter bees? How exactly do you cook them?
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Now I know,
for what this adjustable sights on a M 60 are good for...

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Congrats for breaking this old world-record "Seven at One Blow"
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If those bees get any bigger you'll have to jump up to a .44 Mag!
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I use a badminton racket for those pesky little critters. Probably not as much fun as your way but the chief of police would most likely would tell me to stop if I did it your way.
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Waxies and carpenter bees , how fun!! I used to shoot them with a .177 lead pellet. What a riot.
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Just breast them out. No meat in the legs anyway.

p.s. That looks like an awful lot of fun!
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I started a thread years ago about bug shooting. When I was a lot younger the house we lived in butted up to a wheat field. It was crawling with grasshoppers and my brother and I would spend hours shooting them with BB guns.

Fast forward several years a buddy of mine and I were hunting doves. The corn field we were hunting in had thousands of dragon flies in it. The next time we went out we took his smoothbore Remington pump 22 and a carton of Winchester 22 shot loads. In the mid day when the doves werent flying we practiced on dragon flies.

A member down in South Carolina posted on the thread that he loaded 22 cal pellets in a 222 with just a primer for shooting Palmetto bugs
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I use a badminton racket for those pesky little critters. Probably not as much fun as your way but the chief of police would most likely would tell me to stop if I did it your way.
I hit em with a badminton racket too...but half the time they get back up, or just fly off after I whack them. I bought a "Bug-a-salt" gun for the flies on my porch, but I think I'll try it on the Carpenter bees that eat holes in my cabin. Probably not enough "oomph" though, so I'll give the OP's formula a try.

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38 spl cases/1.5 grs of Bullseye. Cardboard wad tamped down on powder. Fill almost to the mouth with #9 shot(used #12's till I ran out). Tamp cardboard wad down on top and seal with a dab of airplane glue or nail polish. I can shoot against the tin roof of my tractor shed with no damage(Did shoot the light out once!). Pic of my bee loading kit.
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Years ago I had a bee gun. It was a Daisy 717 single-pump target pistol. When I'd see a bee in the window, I'd give it a pump and drop a small amount of rice down the barrel, then sneak up and SPLAT!
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This is brilliant! I've got carpenter bees eating the front of my house and have been fighting them for years. I have done the tennis racket dance but when seen from a distance your sanity comes into question by the neighbors. This looks like way more fun!
I'll have to try the corn meal or salt for loads. Not a lot of property and close to many cars. Hope the local PD has a sense of humor.
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I hit em with a badminton racket too...but half the time they get back up, or just fly off after I whack them. I bought a "Bug-a-salt" gun for the flies on my porch, but I think I'll try it on the Carpenter bees that eat holes in my cabin. Probably not enough "oomph" though, so I'll give the OP's formula a try.
You are correct about the lack of "oomph."
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I use grits, cardboard wads cut from a beer carton, 1 grain of Bullseye and a magnum primer, in a 44 mag casing. Grits are the ideal compromise between shot and cornmeal.
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WOW, I feel much better about myself now!!! Used to shoot garden spiders off my small hay stack with a target bow years ago. My wife thought I was the consummate redneck. Turns out that was just barely in the pink neck ring!!
Shooting bees with a handgun looks like a great time! First question that comes to mind is if it is considered bad form to ground sluice them?
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I use a badminton racket for those pesky little critters. Probably not as much fun as your way but the chief of police would most likely would tell me to stop if I did it your way.
I used to have plenty of them in PA. I had the kids get em with badminton rackets. 25 cents a kill
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I'll have to try the corn meal or salt for loads. Not a lot of property and close to many cars. Hope the local PD has a sense of humor.

Please tell us you were joking about shooting salt out of your gun.
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WOW, I feel much better about myself now!!! Used to shoot garden spiders off my small hay stack with a target bow years ago. My wife thought I was the consummate redneck. Turns out that was just barely in the pink neck ring!!
Shooting bees with a handgun looks like a great time! First question that comes to mind is if it is considered bad form to ground sluice them?
I shoot "em" flying.....like a miniature dove shoot. BTW I cut a 2x4 open that had ONE bee hole. There were 6 horizontal tunnels in the 2x4. had this been in a support structure it would soon fail.

As to answer your question.......Any way dead is good!
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Roger the grits. My usual load. My grandsons love it when I do this; they go stomp the bees after I knock them down.
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When I put the new roof (rafters, sheeting & shingles) on the deck, I finished the "inside" in vinyl soffit material and covered all exposed wood with aluminum stock. I put 3 coats of gloss latex paint on 2 exposed 2 x 4's that would have 6 foot long sun shades mounted on them.

No more bees -- I even bought a bag of grits for ammo reloads in 44 mag brass. I had to cut an old 2 x 4 length wise for something. A 10 foot 2 x 4 had 2 non-intersecting 8 foot long tunnels. No wonder it was kind of flimsy!
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We have Carpenter Bees but I live smack dab in the middle of town in a house built in 1929 , close quarters and shooting is not an option.
My son was in the Cub Scouts and they were looking for a wood working project , that got me to thinking about the Carpenter Bees.
Did a little reading and discovered if you build a little house and hang it under the eave(s) they like they will usually move in , especially if you plug and paint over their old holes .
I got some Carpenter Bee House Plans , there are two basic types, showed them to the Scout Master and boys and they thought it a most interesting project . Everybody makes birdhouses....Who makes Carpenter Bee houses ????
They had fun building them , earned badges and I got my Carpenter Bee problem solved. I have two houses hung from my garage eaves and a third from a small outbuilding .
I don't have to kill them and they help pollinate the citrus , fruit trees , vegetable garden and flowers.
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Unless you live in a desert and rinse it with ammonia after shooting.
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We have Carpenter Bees but I live smack dab in the middle of town in a house built in 1929 , close quarters and shooting is not an option.
My son was in the Cub Scouts and they were looking for a wood working project , that got me to thinking about the Carpenter Bees.
Did a little reading and discovered if you build a little house and hang it under the eave(s) they like they will usually move in , especially if you plug and paint over their old holes .
I got some Carpenter Bee House Plans , there are two basic types, showed them to the Scout Master and boys and they thought it a most interesting project . Everybody makes birdhouses....Who makes Carpenter Bee houses ????
They had fun building them , earned badges and I got my Carpenter Bee problem solved. I have two houses hung from my garage eaves and a third from a small outbuilding .
I don't have to kill them and they help pollinate the citrus , fruit trees , vegetable garden and flowers.
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I would love to build one like the BATE'S MOTEL....Youse goes in and never comes out!......If they are not eating your wood. They are eating someone else's.
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Further reinforcing my belief that grits are not for human consumption.
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Further reinforcing my belief that grits are not for human consumption.
Less for you. More for me......shrimp & grits/cheese & grits/gravy & grits/maters & grits/butter & grits/sausage & grits/puddin & grits/eggs & grits
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Less for you. More for me......shrimp & grits/cheese & grits/gravy & grits/maters & grits/butter & grits/sausage & grits/puddin & grits/eggs & grits
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I don't eat snails either.
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