Found a goldmine

[Magungo1066]

Well gents I hate to brag but I think I struck gold! Found a nice chunk of my favorite wadding material! This is only one half of the piece. Next season’s squirrels are in trouble.

 

[user 49399]

Well gents I hate to brag but I think I struck gold! Found a nice chunk of my favorite wadding material! This is only one half of the piece. Next season’s squirrels are in trouble.

 

[Timber Wolf]

My Wasps are just sorry, they never make me nests big enough to mess with. : (

 

[jackpine54]

Awesome find!

 

[deerstalkert]

caught the bride wandering about outside the house with one of those wasp killing spray cans that shoots 20 feet. my entire crop destroyed.

 

[1950DAVE]

Picking blackberries a couple days ago and found a nice two fist size hornets nest. Right after one hit me between the eyes. No doubt Mr. Hornet felt as if he had struck gold.

 

[Dude]

Ooh! Cool!

 

[Magungo1066]

The house owner claimed it had been empty for a season or two but admittedly I was half expecting to hear “Zzzzzzzzzzzz” the second I hit it the first time

 

[Rawhide67]

I have a couple hives stashed in my shop. They work well as wadding in the one smoothy I have that it choked. Looking forward to knocking down a turkey with that setup someday.

 

[Zutt-man]

Last summer I killed 91 wasps (I started counting because I could believe the amount we were seeing) around the house. Found one small nest, but couldn’t find any others.

This summer they really started picking back up and killed 37. Wasn’t until a recent hail storm revealed the 6 air vents on the north side of our house are loaded with nests. 6 cans of jet spray later, I have more wadding than I know what to do with

 

[Compressorguy]

Well gents I hate to brag but I think I struck gold!

Meanwhile some of us just get “pickers”!

 

[user 49399]

Meanwhile some of us just get “pickers”!
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That’s about what I get.

 

[cgoff]

Are the large paper wasp nests of any use?

 

[deerstalkert]

Are the large paper wasp nests of any use?

those sell on ebay as decorations,(who knows for what) for up to 150.00

 

[cynthialee]

those sell on ebay as decorations,(who knows for what) for up to 150.00

and here I threw one away a few years back that was larger than a basketball

 

[Kabulrocks]

I have heard of using wasp nest for patching but haven’t been around anyone actually using it. Do you cut patches for rifles, or is it used wadded up for shot?

 

[Rawhide67]

The ones I have are the big cone shaped nests. I use both the outside papery stuff and the combs.

 

[Camphill]

I found this beauty under our deck at the end of last year. I wasn’t shooting black powder then. If I’d only known.

 

[user 49399]

I have heard of using wasp nest for patching but haven’t been around anyone actually using it. Do you cut patches for rifles, or is it used wadded up for shot?

I posted a thread sometime back in the percussion rifle section called “Wacky Shooting “. In this thread, I demonstrated how I use wasper nest for wadding in a .50 caliber rifle. I put in powder, a wad of nest, a bare round ball and topped off with another wad of nest. It does good out to about 50 yards, but you won’t get IdahoLewis accuracy at long range and you probably won’t win any matches with it.

I like to use wasp nest or jute tow the same way in rifles and smooth bores because it’s so easy to load. It’s not the same as using patched round balls, I just like keeping everything simple.

 

[Kabulrocks]

I posted a thread sometime back in the percussion rifle section called “Wacky Shooting “. In this thread, I demonstrated how I use wasper nest for wadding in a .50 caliber rifle. I put in powder, a wad of nest, a bare round ball and topped off with another wad of nest. It does good out to about 50 yards, but you won’t get IdahoLewis accuracy at long range and you probably won’t win any matches with it.

I like to use wasp nest or jute tow the same way in rifles and smooth bores because it’s so easy to load. It’s not the same as using patched round balls, I just like keeping everything simple.

Thanks! I’ll look that up. In my area, it would take two nests per shot. Now if a mud dauber nest could be used....