3 Real Hornets Nests from NY

[roundball]

FYI...picked up 3 hornet's nests while on my family reunion trip to NY thios past several days...planning to shoot a range session with it so I can learn about it, get some actual first hand knowledge / experience on how it works, find out if/how it affects POI, etc...let you know

 

[tom hargrove]

sure hope all the hornets have moved out :shocked2: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[roundball]

sure hope all the hornets have moved out :shocked2: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

That's two of us...been in plastic trashbags for 4-5 years so there shouldn't be any surprises :grin:

 

[roundball]

Got my first hand testing and experience with real hornet's nest material at the range this morning in a .45cal Flintlock.

The hornet's nest material does indeed work as advertised, does all the same things that Oxyoke wondewads do except put more lube into the bore. I only tested at 50yds but the POI remained the same as with an Oxyoke wad.

Just guessing at how much to use I erred on the high side and glad I did as the hornet's nest material is very fragile and compresses a great deal, so while stuffing a couple inches of it into the muzzle, it seated/compressed into about 1/2".

And hornet's nest material in fact does not burn...found all the 'wads' 10-15 feet out in front of the muzzle...not even charred...the settlers were some very resourceful, knowledgable people.

 

[Woodbutcher]

RB, please advise. How do you "measure" the amount of wasp nest material that it put into the barrel. Two inches of what? A piece cut fron the nest, or two inches of crumblies.
Does it matter what kind of nest is used? I have the football shaped kind and the kind made of a lot of little tubes upside down.
Might stop smoking patches! Woodbutcher

 

[roundball]

RB, please advise. How do you "measure" the amount of wasp nest material that it put into the barrel. Two inches of what? A piece cut fron the nest, or two inches of crumblies.
Does it matter what kind of nest is used? I have the football shaped kind and the kind made of a lot of little tubes upside down.
Might stop smoking patches! Woodbutcher

I meant that I tore off some small bunches of hornet's nest material and started pushing pieces of it into the muzzle until I felt I had a couple inches in there...not preformed in the shape of a wad...just chunks of material.

Then I seated and compressed it, knowing I had a lot of dead spaces within the material I had pushed into the muzzle...and based upon where my witness mark stopped, I concluded it had all packed down to about 1/2" size wad.

Understand I was just freelancing here...no instructions...the goal was to simply do it as I assumed the settlers did it...ie: shove in enough so that when seated/compressed it would form a suitable wad...which is really the whole point. I don't think there's any problem with having more material than needed, only if there is not enough material.

 

[flintlock2000]

I have used hornets nest in a shotgun as wadding-it works great. Remember,though,the nests are made out of mostly very fine dirt and mud-it's real abrasive. Just my 2 cents-Greg

 

[roundball]

"...the nests are made out of mostly very fine dirt and mud-it's real abrasive..."

Appreciate that...won't be a problem as I don't intend to "use it" routinely...just wanted to get some first hand experience which I did today, and now I'm done with it.

 

[Woodbutcher]

Thanks Roundball. Woodbutcher