Completely Juvenile but a Whole Lotta Fun

[Olibobwa]

Been in the yard hunting wasp with a bb gun

They have overtaken the bushes in my front yard and I've been mowing them suckers down!

Almost as much fun as shooting sticks with a 22 while they float down the river

Anybody else have any corny stories worth telling??

[hogdogs]

corny stories

Well how punny of you to mention it... corny...
I am shopping for COARSE corn meal to replace the lead payload in my junk wally world 20 gauge ammo... I will then go out to my dilapidated barn so I can shoot carpenter bees... Gonna be a whole lot more bark then bite and I will be a little better "wing shooter" for the effort.
Brent

[Olibobwa]

OH NO NOT THE PUNS

I guess from now on I'm gonna have to call u the kernal

[Scorch]

Remember, Brent: "If it is two bees, it's up to me." Or something like that.

[kraigwy]

I can see it, I get a lot of practice shooting grass hoppers here with my Feinwerkbau Air Pistols.

Just as much fun is shooting flys with the felt cleaning air gun pellets.

[hogdogs]

felt cleaning air gun pellets

You could be UBER tacticool and tie 2 together with some thread for a fly size "bolo" round Tangle the bugger up!
Brent

[rdmallory]

Be careful, I was doing that as a kid shooting yellow jackets and had a BB bounce back off the hard surface the bee was sitting on and hit me right between the eyes. Did not bring blood but sure gave me the shakes thinking how close I was to loosing an eye.


Doug

[SavageSniper]

Wife and I were in bed one night and you could hear this green tree frog chirping away outside the window. She ask me to go shut it it. Went outside and shook the bushes, it stopped and I went back inside. 3 minutes later he was back at it. This time she promises me "something special" if I shut it up. Out back I go with flashlight and my daughters Red Ryder. Using the stealth and skill of an Army Sniper, I find him perched on a limb singing away. Shot it and brought it inside holding it up by the leg showing Honey with pride. She yells "why did you bring that thing in here" Proof I said. Pay up.

[jughead2]

guess i aint too much of an odd ball. sit on my front porch and shoot carpenter bees with my trusty 22 and shot shells. they are harder to hit than one would think.

[Art Eatman]

Aw, jughead2, your shotshells have those Sunday-go-to-meeting patterns: Hole-y.

[surbat6]

I've spent more than a few fun afternoons wing-shooting carpenter bees with a .22 loaded with the old-style crimped #12 shot cartridges.
I also spent most of a day at the range shooting a cheap .52 caliber Spanish smoothbore percussion muzzleloader at thistle heads. Loaded with blanks, it did a good job on paper wasp nests under the roof at the firing line, too.

[troy_mclure]

I blasted a paper wasps nest once with a load of bird shot.

Not my brightest move! lol

I ran fast!!

[87mustang]

my parents have a large honeysuckle bush. so when it blooms it's insect invasion. when i was young i would sit by this bush all day and pick off bugs with a bb gun. anything from bees to butterflies.

[joeseabee]

I've only shot one carpenter bee with a BB gun. It was cool, because the thing just hovered there while I zeroed in.

I did go through about ten 410 shells trying to shoot a moth in the air. Either it was wearing kevlar, I'm a really bad shot, or they can fly with a bunch of holes in their wings. After ten rounds, it decided to fly away...

[simonkenton]

I have been whacking the carpenter bees with the badminton racket.
I got 14 yesterday, and 9 so far today.

These b******s have the temerity to eat my log cabin, a capital crime!

I need to get a box of .22 shot shells, it is fun to shoot them down with the Ruger Single Six.

[hogdogs]

Simon, I priced them .22 rat shot and they are WAYYYY expensive here... Like 12-15 bucks for 50 I did the math and the 100 round brick of 20 gauge ain't much more and the corn meal won't even dent the tin (the wad might though but the barn is literally slowly collapsing) roof. Alot more satisfying to bust off the thunder pipe than the little bolt .22
Brent

[HuntinVa]

The best "juvenile" story i can muster is my wife and i attempting to shoot house flys with my air soft. Twenty shots a piece from a distance of at least 5 feet and the house fly was no worse off than when we began.

[jdscholer]

Pullin the bullets out of 22 shells and replacing them with salt and a little tp plug makes great indoor shot shells for flies.jd

[bamaranger]

Carpenter /bumble bees w/ bamaboys red ryder. Oh man, what a hoot.

Bamaboy now has a full auto airsoft AK, which ought to be grim death on bees!!!

My dad told the story of my Grandad and great uncle shooting trout w/ a shotgun, ala second hand lions, in the 60's on the family farm. Darn pellets.

[alaskaman94]

tons of dragon flies with the red rider before i got my 1st 22

[Olibobwa]

You guys are crazy

I'm getting a little paranoid about the bugs. After hours last night I stopped by where I work. When I stepped out of the car one of those big spiders ran right past my foot (I was in flip flops) and before I even thought about it i had my hand on my snub and had almost drew down on him

I'm a little finicky out there anyway. There's been more than one incident where I ran into something a little bigger than a spider. I've thwarted more than one robbery in progress right by my damn self

[Scorch]

After hours last night I stopped by where I work. When I stepped out of the car one of those big spiders ran right past my foot (I was in flip flops)

Well, whaddya expect runnin aroun half-dressed inna middle a winter?

Good thing you didn't bust a cap, you could take your toe off!

[Lavid2002]

Using one of those whiffle ball bats on those carpenter bees is good times. I loved that.

I used to have a blow gun I would stick em with. When I could hit them that is...

[Olibobwa]

Originally Posted by Scorch

Well, whaddya expect runnin aroun half-dressed inna middle a winter?

Good thing you didn't bust a cap, you could take your toe off!

Shoot man, as mean as that spider looked I woulda been more worried about wasting a round instead of losing a toe

[wyobohunter]

Gopher Golf... Think about it.