Hunting carpenter bees

[cdefenbau]

7-8 yards. he was flying in front of my backstop. 2240 shoots cp 380-400fps over 60 shots at 80f. I can turn it down for 100 shots at 300 FPS. Homemade hammer spring adjuster, moderator/shroud, lightened hammer spring, lightened trigger spring. 

 

[Kgphotos]

When you are locked down at home you adapt and look for hunting opportunities wherever you can find them. 

 

[cdefenbau]

I figure shooting them is more humane than boric acid in the holes they drill in the shed. And it’s a challenge they will hover for just 2-3 seconds then they’re off again. 

 

[mtnGhost]

Nice shot! I just saw some this morning, I might have to try shooting them too lol

 

[Deahttub]

Lol now thats funny! I may have to shoot some myself....

 

[RobR]

I spent countless hours as a kid shooting them with a red ryder. Though I’d like to think it taught me something it was more persistence and luck than anything. Watching the bbs spiral like a knuckle ball. Like shooting a blimp with a cannonball, it would knock them down but they usually needed to be finished off with a heel grind.

 

[profsrgary]

I use a weedeater. Now there here and now there GONE!

 

[pbike257]

a shop vac works really well, not as fun though.

 

[DirtyDovi]

I usually 'shoot' bees/bugs/spiders with carb-cleaner and a lighter, but I suppose air rifles/pistols work too!

Seriously though.. I found a fun / funny way to take out creepy-crawlies with my PCP rifles.. 
I just single-load them with a cleaning-cotton-pellets, and let em' have it.



Sam -

 

[jaird]

Like the idea of the cleaning pellets.

 

[DirtyDovi]

Shooting cleaning-pellets can be a lot of fun, 
but WARNING - They can still be destructive and cause damage / harm too.. 
So just be a bit careful still. [Been there and I had to learn the hard way]



Sam -

 

[Malsonb]

Fun to load empty shot shells for gamo shotgun with table salt. Knocks them out!

 

[massyote]

I hit them with a bad mitten racket but have shot them with pellet guns as well. good job and a lot of fun.

 

[Guest]

I keep an airsoft pistol with me at work when they are about. They will hover long enough at thier holes to get a good aimed shot off at 20ft. Otherwise they dive bomb you when taking thier homes off a house.

 

[Bigragu]

Can you imagine what that would be like to us? Sort of like a Beach ball size cannon ball right into the gut, lol, like the cartoons. It’s the wasps I dislike. Those suckers have sentry guards on the look out at all times, ready to call the troops if need be.

 

[Joedirt199]

And to think I just whack them with a tennis racquet and then step on them

 

[Greenarrow]

Great hunting!



I've blasted spiders and wasps with just a blast of air from the muzzle if they let you get within about a foot. The closer the better.