Shooting balloons using 45Colt brass

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They make a gun for this: BUG-A-SALT 2.0 https://www.amazon.com/Bug-A-Salt-2-0-from-Skell-Inc/dp/B00STSZ77G

I would think cream of wheat would work well in the 45 Colt. Used it to try to fire form some 303 into all brass 410 and it seemed like it would have killed most insects at close range.

Personally I would not use salt and definitely not sand, sand will damage the barrel.

The YouTube personality 22-Plinkster using 22 shot-shell in a 22 pistol and seems to have good luck.

I just made a trap hung it under my deck and that seems to have dealt with my problem. Leave a few dead one's in the trap the smell of other carpenter bees makes the trap more effective.
 
You must not have them where you live you would have to be really fast to catch them with a shop vac.The hotter it is the faster they are
Sorry was referring to their nests. No we dont have a lot, they are small nests that I can cover with a large vac tube.
 
+1 on airsoft gun. An "AEG" if searching from scratch. Get something you'd love to have in reality anyway, as now you get a replica "full auto" one. I think lots of value for airsoft in training anyway, and will normally prefer the gas ones for that (same manual of arms), but they go full auto poorly.

The pellets will break lightbulbs, may damage cheap siding, dink up thin sheet metal like gutters. But, really aren't a risk to solid structures. I have used one to wipe out (at distance, with someone covering me with wasp spray in case) a couple wasp nests with them, and it works like a charm. Also, hilarious fun:
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Salt & sand are not as hard as steel.
They won't damage your barrel.
The quartz in sand is absolutely harder than barrel steel and will erode it in short order.

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/30095/hard-particle-contamination

If you don't want to read the article you can prove it with a simple home test. Rub a steel gun barrel against a plate glass window and look for scratches (you won't see any), then try it with sand (don't do the sand test on a window that you ever want to see clearly out of).
 
When I lived in Georgia, I used a Remington Model 510 with a Rutledge bore. The Rutledge bore was a smooth bore .22 with no rifling and the last 12 or so inches of the barrel had a 3/8ths inch counterbored. There were no front and back site, just a shotgun bead.The rifle and .22 birdshot was death on carpenter bees. I sold it , and now I have carpenter bees where I live in South Carolina. Those smooth bore .22 rifles are hard to find.
 
I thought about salt and also coarse sand but wondered if it might damage the barrel of my handgun.
whughett, I like the simplicity of your suggestion. Did you not use powder? If it doesn't require powder it certainly makes a simple load also fast. 6ft is certainly enough range, those things don't seem to be afraid of ya. They will fly within inches of your face.
How about a different form of reloading?
https://ochocos.com/traditions-blunderbuss-kit-54-caliber-percussion
 
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