Not as much fun as Airsoft, but when I lived in Florida I found the best way to keep your house roach-free was to catch a couple of lizards and turn 'em loose in the house. We rarely saw the lizards, and never saw another roach. I am not exaggerating.
Airsoft and 'roaches?
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Found this on an airsoft site.
Imagine hunting 'roaches with it.
Imagine hunting 'roaches with it.
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I'd recommend the M11 option. Mine fires 1100+ pellets a minute and is high quality compared to many other Airsoft. A 50rnd mag with 20 pellets a second at 300+ FPS...if you miss, it's your own fault.
The only thing I'd warn you about is ricochet. You hit something solid, and many of those pellets that don't shatter will most unpleasantly be coming back your way.
The only thing I'd warn you about is ricochet. You hit something solid, and many of those pellets that don't shatter will most unpleasantly be coming back your way.
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1. Dust off and nuke the site from orbit.
2. I say we nerve gas the whole complex.
3. Airsoft. Remember, short, controlled bursts.
I'd do the nerve gas. Done the airsoft thing, too much mess. Pieces of roach literally fly across the room.
2. I say we nerve gas the whole complex.
3. Airsoft. Remember, short, controlled bursts.
I'd do the nerve gas. Done the airsoft thing, too much mess. Pieces of roach literally fly across the room.
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So basically grabbing an Airsoft M-60, and filling the room with 600 pellets a minute, while laughing maniacally and shouting: "DIE, SCUMBAG!" is a bad idea?
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The M134 didn't look like a bad deal
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No Gamera-sized roaches in my house, but I do encounter the occasional quarter-inch "roachlet" scampering across the linoleum next to the patio door. If I happen to be reloading some large-caliber pistol rounds like the 44Mag or 45ACP at the time, I'll stun of few of them with a quick whack from a rolled-up periodical, then drop them into the case on top of the powder before seating the bullet.
I do notice a tad more muzzle flash when shooting the "insectified" reloads.
DL
I do notice a tad more muzzle flash when shooting the "insectified" reloads.
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A few years ago the wife and I moved from a small rent house in the country, it was not well sealed and the mice would come in. I spent many an evening with a daisy red ryder shooting them as they ran across the floor. So we moved shortly because of this and rented a trailer on the outskirts of town. After about a week I started hearing noises at night. So Assuming it was mice I set a trap, I never found the trap again. Set a rat trap, it to was carried away, I found it near a hole chewed in the wall about 50' from where I set it. So one night I hear noise in the trash, run out just in time to see the trash can fall over and this huge pear rat take off(Big Blue rats that live in cactus bushes and weigh up to a couple pounds." We had a standoff, I went for a knife and he went back out the hole where I found the trap and had sealed back up, he'd chewed it out again. So I declared war, I went to the back reloading room, jerked the bullets out of some .22's and some of the powder, loaded the case full of wax. The next night I laid in wait for the little vermin with a .22 revolver stuffed full of these things. I had left the hole open and sure enough, out he came and smack, I nailed him from a range of about 3'. He turned and Ihad to shoot him again before he got in the hole. Perfect home performance, entry but no exit wound. I carried him outside and when I came back, another was sitting on the counter looking at me, I fired the remaining four rds and finally got him killed. I plugged the hole again and never had any more visitors.
MicroBalrog, would it be possible for you to make a new post about the gun laws in Israel? I had no idea, I thought every home was well armed in that place. I'd really appreciate the info.
MicroBalrog, would it be possible for you to make a new post about the gun laws in Israel? I had no idea, I thought every home was well armed in that place. I'd really appreciate the info.
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Reason # 325 not to break into Tamara's place....
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I am deftly afraid of large insects; when I was in Hong Kong, I had the luxury and misfortune of encountering a large roach in the apartment while armed with a fully-automatic Glock 18 Airsoft... in a fit of panic, a full magazine of 30 plastic bbs was distributed evenly into every nook and cranny of the room as they ricocheted off the tile floor everywhere but where the roach was sitting.
I've since learned that birdshot has its uses.
I've since learned that birdshot has its uses.
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Ok, you people need to know about something I first read about in a gunrag.
'Scalled "Bugshot".
1.) Start with a STAINLESS .22, or you have to be religious about cleaning.
2.) SAFETY GLASSES. This is STUPID. (But it works.)
Pull bullets on some .22 rimfires. save powder and set aside. Brand matters, I had old Federal .22 Longs that worked, but Remington Thunderbolts didn't.
Take a spent case, cut it off, and file down to about 1/8" OAL. Stick it to a small stick. This is your powder dipper.
Take an empty, unfired case, and charge it it with one scoop of saved powder. Top with a tight-fitting card wad. Something a bit thicker than heavy tagboard. Didn't think of wax here when I did it.
STUPID PART: pack it down tight. I used a bamboo skewer. In a LIVE rimfire case. I said it was STUPID, but I never set one off. Naytheless, I never looked down on it either. Kept all parts of my anatomy well out of alignment with the open end whilst packing in. It seemed neccessary, as un-packed loads failed to ignite the powder charge.
Fill case with coarsest available table salt. Top with another cardwad. Done.
Out of a single shot rifle, these went off quieter than a capgun. Kind of a cross between a "Thwack!" and a "Splat!". Pattern at across-the-room range was about 8", with dispersion space of about 3/8" between crystals, quite even. Penetration at same range was handily through a piece of notebook paper. Closer range made smaller, ragged holes and a puff of paper dust.
These things are DEVASTATING on wasps. Crystals typically penetrate completely, with no damage to paint or walls provided you don't shoot directly at the surface at close range. Mosquito Hawks at 6-ish feet were smashed, with broken legs, oozing bodies and perforated wings. It didn't splatter the bugs unless you were too close, in which case it'd be like swatting a dove with a full-choked 12-guage load of birdshot at minimal range.
I had so much fun with these I ran out of targets. The neighbors knew nothing. Salt sweeps up easily, but it rusts guns FAST. (Hence the stainless advisory.) Houseplants don't like it much either, so rinse 'em off or find little dead spots on leaves later.
I first read about these in the context of a guy who was shooting mosquitoes with his Ruger Mk II on a boat. His buddy's anti-gun girlfriend had IMMENSE fun stalking mosquitoes all over the boat for the whole night once she saw what was going on. Result: one ex-antigunner, numerous vaporized mosquitoes.
The hard part is developing a load that insures consistent powder ignition. Thunderbolts WOULD NOT ignite the powder, no matter what I tried. Primer-only power in rimfires is too weak to shove a salt-collumn fast enough to do anything other than dribble out of the barrel, hence the neccessity of the stupid bit above..
I haven't tried this with centerfires, but it oughta work, probably with primers only. You'd just need to dial the shotload to where it'd work well, and an entire centerfire case fulla salt might be a bit much. Handgun or rifle probably won't make a whole lot of difference either.
Sugar instead of salt might work also, as a non-corrosive alternative. Dunno if I'd want to be sweet on roaches, though.
Remember, I said it was STUPID to reload rimfires like this. It's probably quite dangerous. It merits further investigation and research, particularly on the centerfire applications.
As an addtional point of stupidity, this is the only reloading I've ever done. Using a different type of powder than what I pulled from the rounds might work better, but I didn't have any variety at the time. All the same, I used up 5-6 boxes of old Federal .22 Longs that I got from my grandmother after my grandfather died.
But beware. It's addictingly fun.
'Scalled "Bugshot".
1.) Start with a STAINLESS .22, or you have to be religious about cleaning.
2.) SAFETY GLASSES. This is STUPID. (But it works.)
Pull bullets on some .22 rimfires. save powder and set aside. Brand matters, I had old Federal .22 Longs that worked, but Remington Thunderbolts didn't.
Take a spent case, cut it off, and file down to about 1/8" OAL. Stick it to a small stick. This is your powder dipper.
Take an empty, unfired case, and charge it it with one scoop of saved powder. Top with a tight-fitting card wad. Something a bit thicker than heavy tagboard. Didn't think of wax here when I did it.
STUPID PART: pack it down tight. I used a bamboo skewer. In a LIVE rimfire case. I said it was STUPID, but I never set one off. Naytheless, I never looked down on it either. Kept all parts of my anatomy well out of alignment with the open end whilst packing in. It seemed neccessary, as un-packed loads failed to ignite the powder charge.
Fill case with coarsest available table salt. Top with another cardwad. Done.
Out of a single shot rifle, these went off quieter than a capgun. Kind of a cross between a "Thwack!" and a "Splat!". Pattern at across-the-room range was about 8", with dispersion space of about 3/8" between crystals, quite even. Penetration at same range was handily through a piece of notebook paper. Closer range made smaller, ragged holes and a puff of paper dust.
These things are DEVASTATING on wasps. Crystals typically penetrate completely, with no damage to paint or walls provided you don't shoot directly at the surface at close range. Mosquito Hawks at 6-ish feet were smashed, with broken legs, oozing bodies and perforated wings. It didn't splatter the bugs unless you were too close, in which case it'd be like swatting a dove with a full-choked 12-guage load of birdshot at minimal range.
I had so much fun with these I ran out of targets. The neighbors knew nothing. Salt sweeps up easily, but it rusts guns FAST. (Hence the stainless advisory.) Houseplants don't like it much either, so rinse 'em off or find little dead spots on leaves later.
I first read about these in the context of a guy who was shooting mosquitoes with his Ruger Mk II on a boat. His buddy's anti-gun girlfriend had IMMENSE fun stalking mosquitoes all over the boat for the whole night once she saw what was going on. Result: one ex-antigunner, numerous vaporized mosquitoes.
The hard part is developing a load that insures consistent powder ignition. Thunderbolts WOULD NOT ignite the powder, no matter what I tried. Primer-only power in rimfires is too weak to shove a salt-collumn fast enough to do anything other than dribble out of the barrel, hence the neccessity of the stupid bit above..
I haven't tried this with centerfires, but it oughta work, probably with primers only. You'd just need to dial the shotload to where it'd work well, and an entire centerfire case fulla salt might be a bit much. Handgun or rifle probably won't make a whole lot of difference either.
Sugar instead of salt might work also, as a non-corrosive alternative. Dunno if I'd want to be sweet on roaches, though.
Remember, I said it was STUPID to reload rimfires like this. It's probably quite dangerous. It merits further investigation and research, particularly on the centerfire applications.
As an addtional point of stupidity, this is the only reloading I've ever done. Using a different type of powder than what I pulled from the rounds might work better, but I didn't have any variety at the time. All the same, I used up 5-6 boxes of old Federal .22 Longs that I got from my grandmother after my grandfather died.
But beware. It's addictingly fun.
MicroBalrog
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WHY did my government have to ban .22 rifles?
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