East Texas is infested with wasps. Seems they are everywhere. They get in my shop, suprise me in the morning by sitting on my computer or various machines, buzzing by my ear when I am focused on fitting parts....you get the idea, I hate them with a passion reserved for mortal enemies. Since they are the coyote to my donkey, I delight in killing them. Problem is it can get expensive with sprays, and the ceiling is too high for the spray to reach with enough power to do any good.

So I look over and see my old prototype .22LR double rifle...and I recall the .22 birdshot at Academy.

A short 30min later, I was wreaking havoc on the wasp population. More fun than I should be allowed to enjoy. Best part is the #12 shot allows me to shoot inside the shop at those "high fliers".

Dragonflies are a challenge too....

Too funny. Now that's what I call a hunter!!

Geronimo

Very funny!


Glad to hear from you again, hope your recovery is nearly over.

Been praying for you.

I'm with ya, I live in Georgia and they are thick here as well and there are few things I hate as much as wasps. Thanks for the birdshot tip, I really do HATE the little bastards.

Were you shooting them on the wing?

I used to shoot hovering dragon flies and bumble bees with my .22 air rifle when I was younger! Great fun.

Fun stuff for sure!

I've had numerous rimfire cape guns in .22 and 9mm, hammer and hammerless.
I've killed more with them than anything else, including hundreds if not thousands of wasps, crickets, mice, beetles, etc
A great deal of that all done inside my workshops and machine shops.

I also have a smooth bore pump action Remington shotgun in .22LR
I don't know how many cartridges fit in that tubular magazine, but it just runs and runs like the energizer bunny...


Have fun with that Bailey!



Cheers
Tinker

just a freindly reminder that wasps prey on web-worms... so if you have pecan trees, be kind to the wasps... but then, they dont belong inside, do they?

pictures--

we want Pics and a detailed hunt report.



SSR

Any of those critters make B&C? Is a trip to the taxidermist inevitable? Too funny!

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Originally posted by kweber:
just a freindly reminder that wasps prey on web-worms... so if you have pecan trees, be kind to the wasps... but then, they dont belong inside, do they?

I didn't know that. I wondered what they were good for. No nut trees on my place, and I sure won't put much of a dent in the population..... Seems like I shoot one and two more show up.

I could live and let live if they wouldn't buzz me when I'm working.

Bailey:
What are the trophy fees for the wasps and dragonflys? Is there a govt. levy as well?


Dutch

One of my fondest memories is getting to shoot the "wheat" birds that flew into my Grand Father's Feed Store in Odessa,TX. The tin roof of Odessa Grain Co. had nothing to fear from the crimped nose 22 mustard shot round I hurled at the birds. Most treasured phrase was, "Rusty, go shoot those birds in the back of the store after these customers leave." My firearm of choice was a single shot smooth bore 22.

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Originally posted by Bailey Bradshaw:
East Texas is infested with wasps. Seems they are everywhere. They get in my shop, suprise me in the morning by sitting on my computer or various machines, buzzing by my ear when I am focused on fitting parts....you get the idea,

So I look over and see my old prototype .22LR double rifle...and I recall the .22 birdshot at Academy.

A short 30min later, I was wreaking havoc on the wasp population. More fun than I should be allowed to enjoy. ....

Now some of you bolt rifle trash tell me again that a double rifle is only for elephant at 10 yards and useless for anything else!

The ones which we call yellow-jackets have been an absolute plague the last two summers. As soon as we sit down outside by the pool with a drink or something to eat, they are all over us, including IN the drinks. And the little basnerds are agressive as hell too, don't know how many times we've been stung. Worse thing is that I seem to be becoming allergic to the darned stings in my old age. Unfortunately, I think that my neighbours would be phoning the gendarmerie if I loaded up my Hornet double with dust shot and started wing-shooting the durned things!

I don't shoot/kill dragonflies, their main food source is mosquitoes! I'd MUCH rather have dragonflies than mosquitoes!

DM

Sounds like fun...

Well I cannot shoot a gun in the house...

So one of my Sisters in Law gave me an "electric tennis racket".
Whew you swat a wasp, yellow jacket, spider, etc. it really does the job.

A light charge in any shotshell with a load of table salt!

Deadly on singles or nests! Infact the nests are vaporized!

I want the video, and I also wish it would get warm enough here to breed wasps. It was a long, snowy winter in the midwest.

A little is good but a lot is better!

Try it with a double 12 ga! I bet that'll kill `em deader...

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I want the video...

Yeah, call the DVD "Death by the Milligram"!!!


I think I can hear it . . . "We can shoot him right now, or we can let that wasp decide how he's gonna die". . .


(Seriously though, NO disrespect intended towards Mark Sullivan here. I just thought that phrase would sound funny when talking about shooting wasps.)

You have a wasp endorsment on your hunting license Bailey?

Stuff like that used to get the neighbors yelling at me...

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Originally posted by Aaron Little:
You have a wasp endorsment on your hunting license Bailey?

Stuff like that used to get the neighbors yelling at me...

Well, I can whip my neighbors, and I checked the hunting regs.....no season or bag limit on flying vermin.

A plascic 22 bullet for wasps would be interesting.

As a working exterminator, I understand your passion. You are spreding lead dust all over your shop, not a good thing for small children or pets. Get a powerfull rubberband gun and make it a more sporting and safer.

I had a buudy who has killed several with a blow gun


I some times spray sugarwater on my backstops and shoot fly's and warsp with my 22 at 50 yards

JD

How tight do you stretch the rubber bands on a SxS double, to get them to regulate? Also, how many grains do your rubber bands weigh?
ND

Load shotshells with dry-ice pellets..........Lots of fun and zero cleanup.

don't kill all of them remember I will be there in two weeks. I wanta kill a few too

I have never heard of the dry ice pellet thing, I may have to try it.

Usually I leave the wasps alone, but a few times they have been thick and I found a new use for my Armsport 8mmCF shotgun I got from Accardi Importers a few years ago. Lots of fun and cheaper to shoot than the 9mm rimfires! Now I need to find a smoothbore 22 double.

Matthew

Maybe Bailey could be talked into turning out some 22shot inserts for double rifle pest control.Imagine shooting a 22 out of a $15thou .450 double at a wasp in the backyard.Next there will be decoys.

i have dispatched a few small flying pests with .38 spl wax bullets from an older mod 13 smith.......

PRAY FOR OBAMA... PSALMS 109:8

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Originally posted by Nitrodave:
How tight do you stretch the rubber bands on a SxS double, to get them to regulate? Also, how many grains do your rubber bands weigh?
ND

I use to make my ammo out of innertubes,single barrel only since it was like the 2 boore of rubberband guns

JD

I hear the worst thing about shooting wasps is skinning them out for the trophy. Especially, if you want to get one of those European skull mounts.

Bailey:
Do you conduct guided hunts and, if so, what is the trophy fee(s)?
Secondly, I may try the same with my 4-bore--but let the wasps fly down the barrel and nest first, then fire.
Cheers,
Cal

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
Bailey:
Do you conduct guided hunts and, if so, what is the trophy fee(s)?
Secondly, I may try the same with my 4-bore--but let the wasps fly down the barrel and nest first, then fire.
Cheers,
Cal

Cal,

Guided hunts will run you $.25 per day with a $.10 trophy fee for Red wasp, and $.15 for red and black. Yellow jackets are free, but not as plentifull. When dirt dobber season comes around, that's when the shooting gets fast and furious. East texas is like the "Argentina" of dirt dobbers. :-)