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Sounds like fun. What about walnut tumbling media for the pay load?
38 Specials and carpenter bees
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The_Truth
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Y'all got me wanting to stock up on shot shells for my revolvers, hahah
flagman1776
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I used to use the badminton racquet trick but after knocking them down you must step on them before they get back up. Sometimes they get stuck in the racquet strings, so if you can't find them look there.
The Carpender bees like to bore nice 1/2" holes in my barn & house... & the neighbor's log cabin... second story height. A thimble of rice over 10 grains of fffg with card in 58 smooth bore flint pistol.
Reminds me of my buddy, we'll call "Charlie", who used to kill house flies off his wife's prize Tiffany glass lamp shade with an air pistol. He wasn't using a projectile at all, just pumping the **** out of it.
The Carpender bees like to bore nice 1/2" holes in my barn & house... & the neighbor's log cabin... second story height. A thimble of rice over 10 grains of fffg with card in 58 smooth bore flint pistol.
Reminds me of my buddy, we'll call "Charlie", who used to kill house flies off his wife's prize Tiffany glass lamp shade with an air pistol. He wasn't using a projectile at all, just pumping the **** out of it.
My 38 load is 1.5 grs Bulleye-cardboard wad(cut from primer sleeve with arch punch). Fill case with #12's or #9's. tamp down top wad with a punch I made and seal with glue.
If you look at old post you with see one of my 38's and a handful of bees. I've killed about 30 so far this year. I loaded about 150 "bee loads" and about half are shot up. I avg about 2.5 shots per bee. All are shot airborne. I hate "em".
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gregintenn
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We always used crushed walnut shell media on Bullseye powder.
AJ
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Thought this was an interesting video, until I saw him flip the cylinder closed. Bozo, flashy move. Best way to bend a crane by whipping it closed like that.
gwpercle
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The carpenter bee's pollinate my garden and citrus tree's....
I'm going to let them live . I like home grown tomatoes and bees .
Hand pollinating is too much work . I put up carpenter bee houses for them , we can all get along if we try .
Gary
I'm going to let them live . I like home grown tomatoes and bees .
Hand pollinating is too much work . I put up carpenter bee houses for them , we can all get along if we try .
Gary
Carpenter bees do not build nests in the traditional manner like other bees, wasps, etc. They build solitary tunnels and deposit eggs inside.
My dad would wait for the bee to enter and then stuff an alcohol soaked cotton ball inside the opening. The fumes apparently kill the bee make it easy to fill the hole with wood putty afterwards. There is little that can be done to prevent/control them otherwise. They are attracted to the wood siding and rails, and little will make it unattractive.
Advantage goes to vinyl/alum siding and rails.
I used a BB rifle to keep them in check when I was a young'un. Difficult to hit as they can sense the BB coming and weave out of its path.
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Very, very true. I stain my decks and railings, spray them with ant and termite insecticide several times a year, but carpenter bees will still bore into them, even into the newer pressure treated wood. Those chemicals do not seem to affect them at all.
max503
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Grits are more environmentally-friendly. Heck. Round-up is poisoning us. An arborist told me the stuff lawn services put on people's grass harms trees.
A friend dumps the shot out of shotgun shells and refills them with popcorn for stray dogs.
I don't mess around. I use 158g JHPs. I don't want to have to deal with a wounded bee.
Lottsa ya'll don't understand carpenter bees. They don't have nest except where they bore tunnels in your wood(weakening it). You CAN"T kill the queen. Pesticides work a little. You can spray the hole. If they are in deep they'll bore another to get out.
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Nope those pest cost us money by destroying our wood products. Carpenter don't do much pollinating. 99% is done by wasp and other bees.
In .38's I use 1.6 grains of Bullseye, a cardboard wad, No. 12 lead shot to right below the case mouth, and some beeswax for a seal. When I started doing this I considered salt, but was concerned that it might scour my barrel. Also thought if the salt ever got damp, it could harden like it does in the bottom of a salt shaker. Not sure what that would do to a barrel, but don't think it would be anything good.
Qc Pistolero
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Bees don't bother me,Wasps,it's another game.Use a.50BMG rifle and aim for the nest.Better tell your home insurance before for the possibility of colateral damage!
