Author Topic: What caliber for bees? (Read 2224 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** April 17, 2015, 09:57:45 AM »

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/rolled-semi-spills-load-of-bees-at-the-i-5-and-i-405-interchange/

This is a trick question. You use foam. When I drove by, the fire department was covering the remaining mass of bees with foam. The local radio station was saying that after recovering as many bees as possible, they had to kill the rest in order to recover the semi. The bees were stinging the responding beekeepers, fire and police. They were advising people driving through the area to keep the windows rolled up.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2015, 10:11:07 AM »

BB's?

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2015, 10:39:35 AM »

Fire. The correct response is....fire.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2015, 10:57:01 AM »

#12 shot works well on wasps.

Hutch · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2015, 12:03:26 PM »

Quote from: KD5NRH on April 17, 2015, 10:57:01 AM

#12 shot works well on wasps.

Yup. Will take down aggressive, in your face carpenter bees too. No mayday call, no trailing smoke and trying to get the crew out before it augers in. Just DRT in mid flap. Hit the ground and bounced, I'm telling ya. God bless the CCI .22 shot cap and the Smith and Wesson kit gun.

BobR · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2015, 12:09:14 PM »

This is a simple question. A .22 revolver, preferably a K22 with birdshot. works like a champ on carpenter bees.

Bob

dogmush · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2015, 12:15:39 PM »

http://quotacle.com/watch/53d55d7d99

I HATE bees.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2015, 12:21:47 PM »

Dust off and nuke 'em from orbit --- it's the only way to be sure.

bedlamite · « **Reply #8 on:** April 17, 2015, 12:35:02 PM »

http://xm42.com/

KD5NRH · « **Reply #9 on:** April 17, 2015, 01:44:17 PM »

Quote from: Hutch on April 17, 2015, 12:03:26 PM

Yup. Will take down aggressive, in your face carpenter bees too. No mayday call, no trailing smoke and trying to get the crew out before it augers in. Just DRT in mid flap. Hit the ground and bounced, I'm telling ya. God bless the CCI .22 shot cap and the Smith and Wesson kit gun.

If you can still find the 12ga #12 shells, they're perfect for removing paper wasp nests from places where you don't care too much about the surroundings.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #10 on:** April 17, 2015, 05:58:22 PM »

CCI Stinger.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #11 on:** April 17, 2015, 06:01:06 PM »

Oh god a 22 pistol with snake shot that sounds freaking good time shooting wasps and stuff down.

vaskidmark · « **Reply #12 on:** April 17, 2015, 06:13:44 PM »

Quote from: KD5NRH on April 17, 2015, 01:44:17 PM

If you can still find the 12ga #12 shells, they're perfect for removing paper wasp nests from places where you don't care too much about the surroundings.

Who was it that had the paper wasp nest that filled their shed?

stay safe.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #13 on:** April 17, 2015, 06:40:16 PM »

Quote from: vaskidmark on April 17, 2015, 06:13:44 PM

Who was it that had the paper wasp nest that filled their shed?

I've seen one that filled an old microwave box. Fortunately I didn't see it until after the tech had thoroughly soaked it with Wasp Freeze or I would have been tempted to go for a less environmentally friendly kill method.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #14 on:** April 17, 2015, 07:30:00 PM »

My father shot wasps with a BB gun. I wouldn't believe it, had I not seen it.

Fly320s · « **Reply #15 on:** April 17, 2015, 08:23:43 PM »

I am so disappointed in the hive mind.

The proper cartridge for bees is:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.17_Ackley_Bee

Regolith · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2015, 12:43:38 AM »

230RN · « **Reply #17 on:** April 18, 2015, 03:34:36 AM »

fistful remarked, "My father shot wasps with a BB gun. I wouldn't believe it, had I not seen it."

My brother and I used to shoot wasps with our BB guns in our Long Island house before it was inside-finished. Outside, we shot locusts.

When I lived in Denver, it so happened that the city contractors had to take down a tree by the sidewalk outside my living room window. There was a pretty big crew, and when it finally fell into the street, "billions and billions" of bees erupted. It was really funny watching them scoot to their trucks, swatting and waving and slapping at them.

Slapstick comedy.

No pun.

Terry

Tuco · « **Reply #18 on:** April 18, 2015, 08:31:12 AM »

.218 Bee

230RN · « **Reply #19 on:** April 18, 2015, 10:11:13 AM »

Would a 16" round from a naval rifle work?

vaskidmark · « **Reply #20 on:** April 18, 2015, 11:08:46 PM »

I'll see your bees and raise you a killer cricket.

I'm betting that is a .22 but would not be at all surprised to find out it was a .30-30.

stay safe.

Hutch · « **Reply #21 on:** April 18, 2015, 11:18:23 PM »

Quote from: vaskidmark on April 18, 2015, 11:08:46 PM

I'll see your bees and raise you a killer cricket.

I'm betting that is a .22 but would not be at all surprised to find out it was a .30-30.

stay safe.

Jeet Seezus! Nightmares! Time to werf some flippin' flammen on that hell spawned demon from the Pit. Pleeeeeeeze tell me how that was carefully photoshopped.

vaskidmark · « **Reply #22 on:** April 19, 2015, 12:09:30 AM »

Quote from: Hutch on April 18, 2015, 11:18:23 PM

Jeet Seezus! Nightmares! Time to werf some flippin' flammen on that hell spawned demon from the Pit. Pleeeeeeeze tell me how that was carefully photoshopped.

My source swears on a stack of Blue Book of Gun Values it is not shopped but an original 1937 photo.

On the other hand - http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/10-more-viral-photos-that-are-actually-fake-1531869656

Is this scary enough? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUFNo8kHsXo

stay safe.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #23 on:** April 20, 2015, 01:01:20 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on April 18, 2015, 03:34:36 AM

fistful remarked, "My father shot wasps with a BB gun. I wouldn't believe it, had I not seen it."

My brother and I used to shoot wasps with our BB guns in our Long Island house before it was inside-finished. Outside, we shot locusts.

Yup; a one-pump Daisy that holds a buttload of BBs can be hours of fun when the grasshoppers are swarming.

tokugawa · « **Reply #24 on:** April 20, 2015, 01:17:50 PM »

Shame- I love bees. Love working around them in the garden- never been stung by a honey bee- now wasps and hornets- that is a different story.

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Author Topic: What caliber for bees? (Read 2224 times)