If that's not the bee's knees...

[George]

It’s not every day I get to add a new trophy to my list of game taken with muzzleloaders, so today is a red-letter day.

We have a little nook at out house, a sort of Japanese garden with a tea house and a nice bench. Bumblebees/carpenter bees love to drill holes in the bench and the house, and I wage war on them constantly with a badminton racket. I’ve whacked a lot of them this spring, but one particular place is beyond reach, up at second-story gutter level, and they get up there, hover and refuse to join battle. It’s about 15-20 feet to them. I needed to extend my reach.

Viola! I loaded my 20 gauge flintlock pistol with 20 grains 3F, 2 OS cards, 30 grains equivalent of fine white sand and an OS card. Took two shots, killed two bees, recovered one.

Does anyone know, can you train a birddog to retrieve bees?



Spence

 

[Patocazador]

"Does anyone know, can you train a birddog to retrieve bees?"

Yes, but he'll be no good for birds with that 'hard mouth'. :hmm:

 

[tenngun]

Honey of a shot :haha:

 

[Skychief]

That's it. I've seen it all. :surrender:

Any taxidermy plans there, Spence? :haha:

Too cool, Skychief

 

[Brokennock]

:bow: You're an inspiration as always. :hatsoff:

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Lose the sand too abrasive. A substitute that works just as good....... GRITS!

 

[coloradoclyde]

Dang it Spence!...stop shooting my pollinators....
I need all I can get... :cursing:

If someone sees you running around in your 18th century outfit slaying bees with a flintlock, they might call the guys with the net and white coats.... :haha:

 

[Stumpkiller]

LOL.

I have waited out carpenter bees (we live in a log home) with a pellet pistol. Never thought of sand in a M/L.

I'd go for an Eurpoean Mount.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Lose the sand too abrasive. A substitute that works just as good....... GRITS!

I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva Convention.

 

[Skychief]

Lose the sand too abrasive. A substitute that works just as good....... GRITS!

I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva Convention.

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[The Baron]

Excellent! Now tied that bee on a hook and catch a bass with it. Then put that bass out on a bait pile and kill a bear over it. Then stop there - you don't want to try killing whatever eats bear with a flinter.

 

[Spikebuck]

killed two bees, recovered one.

I don't know Spence. That's a pretty poor recovery rate! Did you perform a grid search...call in someone with a blood hound? :wink: :grin:

I've seen those little toy salt-shooting guns for flies, but I think you've raised the bar! :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

 

[rushlake1]

Lose the sand too abrasive. A substitute that works just as good....... GRITS!

wondering how rice would work.
Don't wanna po those bee's

Did you have to lead that bee much?..maybe jug choke that bbl...HaHa!

 

[Britsmoothy]

Nice one spence :hatsoff:



Now try archery kit :shocked2:

B :thumbsup:

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

A substitute that works just as good....... GRITS!

Not a likely alternative for non-dietary usage according to a certain poll. :hmm:

 

[Eric Krewson]

I made 6 bee traps to put on my wood deck, the carpenter bees were destroying it more and more every year.

I may have one or two bees drill on my deck this summer, before the traps it would be dozens at the same time.

 

[Patocazador]

Make the hole a bit bigger and you'll have a bluebird nest box.

What's in the jar that kills the bees?

 

[larry wv]

I use a BB gun for the ones out of tennis racket range. That air powered Round ball really blows them up. A cheap lever action works good and is good practice. Remember air guns and Round balls have been around for a long time so you could wear tradition garb and be Forum legal. :wink:

Larry

 

[robinsroost]

I saw somewhere that they had used coarse salt for the same effect. That would have the added benefit that they would be preserved, LOL. Keep yer powder dry........robin :hmm:

 

[Spikebuck]

A more simple trap is to just take the bottle you attached on the bottom and cut off the top a few inches down. Invert the top and put it in the bottom half like a funnel. Put some sweet stuff (soda, sugar water, juice, etc) in the bottom...just a bit. The bees go in, but cannot figure out how to get out even though there's an open bottle-neck sized hole in the middle to climb out of. They keep climbing up the sides and hitting the inverted top. Eventually, they just die. We do this camping in the fall when the bees/wasps seem to be quite active.