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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : Sniperdad69 April 18, 2010, 03:46:55 PM
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I had this problem with Carpenter Bees, eating my house, so I took out 30+ of them at ground level with the Badminton racket, but how to get the ones up at the roof line?
Well shoot them of course.
Cheers, David.
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That's some mighty fine shootin :)
Jeff
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Nice shooting!!!
If a 1" group at 100 yards is MOA, what is shooting the heads off of bees? MOB?? :emoticon:
What kind of pistol is that?
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That's funny! Good shooting.
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Holy cow to shoot a bee is awesome to begin with and then you do it with a pistol! great shooting!
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I have used my R-7 before, but the pistol is much better for moving targets.
Cheers, david.
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WOW!!! I didn't imagine this could be done,well done.
Emi.
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That's fantastic. I wanna try that. Very nice shooting. I remember someone saying that they took out a bee, a head shot, with a flying pistol,,,,,ha ha,,,something I could see myself doing in frustration. Thanks for the pics. Totally awesome.
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Nice shooting on them Bees eating up your house, any pictures of bees and pellet damage on your roof line? Lol (http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-laughing.gif)
Sniperdad69 - 4/18/2010 11:46 PM I had this problem with Carpenter Bees, eating my house, so I took out 30+ of them at ground level with the Badminton racket, but how to get the ones up at the roof line? Well shoot them of course. Cheers, David.
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Very nice shooting!
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wooooow
thats some great shooting
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All incredible shots at those bees......amazing feat at shooting at their heads and with a pistol too.
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If you get good with a pistol, through practice, it eventually becomes part of your body.
It is like pointing your finger at something. The sights are out of focus, as you are looking at the target, not the sights.
Concentrate on the Bug, not the gun and keep shooting. I only got one in ten shots.
I was not aiming for the heads, I didn't find any with the head still on it. All the body shots were lost in the woods that are only a few feet from the house, if it hit the head, then the bug simply dropped close to the house, and I found the six I photographed.
Keep shootin.
Cheers, david.
PS, the holes from the Carpenter Bees are huge in comparison to the small dents from a Wad-cutter @ 420fps.
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THOSE ARE KILLS..... HE HE HE
/GERALD
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Dang! That's good shooting. I would have hit everything BUT the Bees ......even with the just the racket!!!! :D
Paul.
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did you check their passports to see if they were Africanized bee's? They may have diplomatic immunity!!!
Good shootin fer sure.
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There's a video on shooting carpenter bees mid-air on youtube.
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Nice Shooting. Got me beat.neric - 4/19/2010 6:23 AM That's fantastic. I wanna try that. Very nice shooting. I remember someone saying that they took out a bee, a head shot, with a flying pistol,,,,,ha ha,,,something I could see myself doing in frustration. Thanks for the pics. Totally awesome.
That was me.(http://../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif) http://www.gatewaytoairguns.com/airguns/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16033&posts=22&highlight=carpenter&highlightmode=1#M131518 (http://thread-view.asp?tid=16033&posts=22&highlight=carpenter&highlightmode=1#M131518)
Before anyone calls Bull Crap, let me tell you what Just happened,
and this is not a late April Fools joke.
About a year and a half ago, before I realized I was too old for paint ball fights anymore,
I bought two KWC TAURUS look alike airsoft Pistols.
Airsoft guns are basically spring or co2 action bb guns that shoot a 6mm plastic BB.
I bought one for me and one for my oldest 9 year old son (at the time).
We wanted to play, but before we started, I wanted us both to know how it felt to be shot.
We both loaded up our pistols, put on our eye protection and backed up about 15 feet from
each other in the living room. My wife was setting on a chair at the kitchen Pc watching all this.
I instructed my son where we would shoot each other.
I CAREFULLY instructed, "aim at dadys chest, I'll do the same with you".
I didn't want a crotch shot.!!! Ok, I know your shaking your heads saying , "you dumb redneck".
Anyway, the moment came and on the count of three, you heard pling pling and an almost instantaneous
TWAP Twaps. Next you see, dad and son both on the ground holding our chests. Crap that hurts..
Yes, we were both wearing T-shirts!! I swear it felt like a bee hit me. We had a welp for a long time and
a mark for over a week. (NEVER TRY THIS AT HOME)!!!!!!
Ok, with lesson learned, we had fun for many days with these pistols.
Now for todays shooting.
I was wanting to go out and shoot the disco today when I got home. It has been raining around here
FOREVR, but now the sun was out. Only problem is, I still don't have those barrel bands yet..
I was standing at the front glass door looking out, dreaming about shooting when something caught my eyes.
I have carpenter bees flying around my front porch. My mind went back to those pistols and I though, that should be
hard to do. I loaded up the 20+ round clip and went out and stood. Here they came back around,
one was fling about 3 feet in front of me. Dang those little buggers are zippy.
It took me 4 shots but I caught him on the last pass.
I saw it when it hit him. "THATS A HEAD SHOT", I thought to my self.
"Man I have to go post this on GTA".
It then dawned on me, "ain't no one going to believe you with out proof". Back out on the porch I went
and started looking for the body. I saw him when he went down. I remember him spinning down to the left
under the bush. Great, heavy foliage, just what I need.....
After about 5 minutes I found him. His body was kinda twithcing. All I could see was his back and wings.
He went down head first. I used a stick and pulled him back from under some leafs. Yep he was dead, just twitching.
I picked him up by a leg and looked at him. I was right, Head Shot. He didn't even have a head
after I hit him with that heavy big bore, 6mm, plastic .20gram Crosman bb!! (http://../images/emoticons/bleh.gif)
Ok, now for the part you have all been waiting for, PICTURES.....
Ain't she a beaute ????
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I am glad that I have seen it now.
All but the part about the bee actually hitting the BB.
Here I thought we were just that good a marksman.
Cheerd, David.
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Don't let it knock the air out of your sail. It's still fun and you still have to hit them. If you ain't close, they wont fly into it anyway.
I still believe you hit em. A BB goes much faster than that airsoft gun I was using.
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WOW, great shooting, unbelieveable. I think you would have been a survivor in the old wild west.
Jeff
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Way to go David!!!!! You the man!!!
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very nice,
yesterday afternoon at my inlaws they have this flowering plum tree and it had hundreds of bees on it i was on deck using railing as rest and nailing them 5 outta 10 shots with my scoped LD but i was going for body lol
a head shot thats awsome
great shooting
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wow! great shots! ive been having a problem with carpenter bees also. i think i found a solution LOL
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FREEKIN' AWESOME SHOOTING!!! With a pistol no less. I gotta give 'er a whirl.