Wanna have some fun on the farm?

[Coyote Hunter]

OK, this was passed to me by one of my western reenacting members. We use our cap n ball pistols a lot in our shows, so we load the 44's with 30 grains of BP, then fill the cylinder with cream of wheat and compress it with the rammer. Makes good blanks....here's the kicker..

I mentioned we have a lot of wood boring bees around the barn this year (looks like bumble bees) and he said to load up the same way and within 10 feet, it will blow them out of the sky. Ya know what...it works and is a blast.

Now I know BP is expensive. but so is the stuff you spray to kill them. It's a lot more fun to pop one in the air and past 10-12 feet there is no worry of harming anything.

Now, I don't want to hear any redneck jokes, or from PETA. I proudly proclaim my neck is sunburned and I already belong to People for Eating Tasty Animals....

 

[mykeal]

So, you eat what you kill, right?

 

[scrat]

hahhahaha redneck flyswatter

 

[Voodoochile]

Sounds like my kind of fun, & since the Prez of the Hunt Club has a large supply of those fat buggers around I'm sure he'll like the idea...

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

Sounds like loads of fun to me. If it were me I would keep some sort of firefighting equipment handy(hose, water buckets, fire extinguisher) in case the black powder set something on fire. Other than than I would say fire away and shoot safely.

 

[Floppy_D]

Brilliant. See, I wanted to know about something like this awhile back. I wanted to know a low-noise fly-swatter shotshell load, and came up empty handed.

THIS was the best solution, and it works like a dream.

 

[sundance44s]

Sounds like something I need to try ..I was sitting on my back covered deck yesterday ..and saw dust was falling in my drink from above ...dang bore bees ..they eat every thing down south that isn`t treated lumber ..sure makes a holy mess of the rafters . I uasually spray the rafters in the barn ..If I didn`t the barn roof would fall in .

 

[Rachen]

hahhahaha redneck flyswatter

Ahem...Ahem... Coyote Hunter has already made the rules clear. See bottom of his post.

 

[Rachen]

Now is it Bob Dylan who penned these lyrics?:
"Farmer, farmer put away your DDT. I don't care about spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees."


Now, I wonder: Try using the Dixie Double in 10 gauge. Load with 80 grains of FFg, cream of wheat and wad filler. Now thats a big flyswatter!

 

[dwave]

I gave it a try today with my .36 navy. It was really fun. I bet a .44 would be way better, but I have about 13 dead bore bees around the area now.

 

[armedandsafe]

So, you eat what you kill, right?

Seasoning for Mexican food, perchance?

Pops

 

[Voodoochile]

Told the Prez of the Hunt Club this & he liked it & thought what his .44 Mag Ruger loaded similarly would do.

I have them @#$%& bees at my house too but since my house is in a sub-division HOA I think I'll have to find another quieter way to erradicate them @#$%&.

 

[oneshooter]

Quote:
"So, you eat what you kill, right?"

If you can find anything left!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

 

[Pancho]

Other strange projectiles

When we were kids, some of us had BB gun wars. I wasn't into that but I did find earthworms would readily crawl down the barrel of an unloaded bb gun. they were accrurate out to 25 feet and left an undeniable stain on a white t shirt. It was kind of the forerunner of the paint ball craze.

 

[Voodoochile]

Other strange projectiles

When we were kids, some of us had BB gun wars. I wasn't into that but I did find earthworms would readily crawl down the barrel of an unloaded bb gun. they were accrurate out to 25 feet and left an undeniable stain on a white t shirt. It was kind of the forerunner of the paint ball craze.

 

[LEE3370]

I still use the BB gun on them, but now I will try the Cream of Wheats or maybe corn meal. I will have to hold under them because the corn meal is self rising.

 

[sundance44s]

Sounds like a new sport ...wing shooting with a 44.
Too late for me ..I done sprayed the barn .

 

[Coyote Hunter]

Now, up the ante by fast drawing on the little beggers...

I like the self rising post..

CH

 

[dwave]

I was wing shooting with a .36! Wild Chance!