I used a BB gun on 'em as a kid. Had to be pretty quick, because they don't usually stay in a stationary hover more than a second or two. And they can zip around pretty quick.
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You're a better a shot than me if you could hit them with a bb gun!I used a BB gun on 'em as a kid. Had to be pretty quick, because they don't usually stay in a stationary hover more than a second or two. And they can zip around pretty quick.
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I was probably closer than you.
Dad had a far sized loft in the barn, and you (adults anyway) could reach up and touch its floor from the ground. The bees seemed to mostly prefer its supporting joists, so they weren't long distance shots.
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A friend uses a softair gun and those plastic balls on carpenter bees!I used a BB gun on 'em as a kid. Had to be pretty quick, because they don't usually stay in a stationary hover more than a second or two. And they can zip around pretty quick.
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Kinda fun on a lazy day!
Me, I have played a few rounds of carpenter bee base ball with a wooden slat!
No mater how many strikes I get, I am always up to bat.
And a double header is when you hit 2 at one time!
I bet shooting carpenter bees with a 22 smoothbore garden gun and the 22 shotshells would be a hoot if the 22 shot shells was $2 / 50!
Sounds like it would be (ha! wood bee?). I've only fired 22-shot (we called it "rat shot") a few times, and don't really know how they pattern.
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Now days you'd need a second mortgage if you could find them!Sounds like it would be (ha! wood bee?). I've only fired 22-shot (we called it "rat shot") a few times, and don't really know how they pattern.
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I bought a pack of the cci ones back 30 or so years ago just for the hell of it.
To me they was always just too expensive to play with!
It is a no brainer why the 22 smooth bore garden gun never caught on (marlin made one), because the ammo was priced too high!
I bought some a few months ago on accident. Glad I did honestly.
You get the cci, or a different brand?
I think winchester loaded them and sold by the box of 50 or by the brick
I think I bought one box (Federal, IIRC) before we got married, and there may still be a few of 'em around here someplace.
We actually have an old Winchester (I think?) .22 shotgun. Technically it's Sweetie's (it was her Dad's), and I'm not sure if we even fired it after he passed. It's a lever-action single-shot smoothbore with a bead front site, and the trigger guard has sort of a hook on the rear rather than a standard lever shape. I think the barrel is hex partway down.
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