Bee Season is coming!

[buck1032]

I still have 4-5 that you gave me years ago. I honestly forgot I had any left until I came across them the other day.

 

I'll be sure to put them to good use. I have several wasps nests around the house. :)

Slacker, there are all sorts of critters to "hunt" down your way. LOL

[JWC]

I'm gonna pick up some hollow punches this year. They probably work better than spent cases.

[enfield]

Try making your overshot wad bigger than the caliber (I use 3/8").  They'll grip the sides of the case and stay in place better.  I push them in by hand with a dowel/pencil/pen/whatevershandy.

[gregintenn]

I'm gonna pick up some hollow punches this year. They probably work better than spent cases.

Harbor Freight is the place to get them.

[whiskey]

Looks like fun. I have always used a wiffle ball bat for bees and wasps. I love the swack sound when you hit one. 

[tnguy]

Bees for me means honey. My hive made it through the winter.

[DaveS]

You removed the bee bait?  How will you get your bag limit?

Is baiting legal? Wow, my whole house is wood!!! Better check the regs....

 

Dave

[DaveS]

Bees for me means honey. My hive made it through the winter.

Wood bees don't make Honey Sonny!!! They only make a mess of your house.

 

Dave

[tnguy]

That would have to be brick bees :)

[enfield]

Bees for me means honey. My hive made it through the winter.

 

Carpenter bees don't make honey:  they make 1/2 inch holes in your barn, deck or fence, sawdust and baby bees.  That's all!

 

I have many friends among the local honey bees.

[enfield]

That would have to be brick bees :)

 

There are also  . . . .

 

MASON bees!  

 

Look it up - they wear little aprons and meet in buildings without windows.

[Dirtshooter]

If any of you have a bullet resizer you can use it to cut your wads, that's what I do to make my own shotshells with #8 or smaller shot.

[enfield]

I got two bees last week, or one sure and a probable.   Neither one was Boone & Crockett material.  Anyone else have any luck?

 

I also hung out my bee trap for the ones who visit the deck while I'm patrolling the fence line.

[R_Bert]

If any of you have a bullet resizer you can use it to cut your wads, that's what I do to make my own shotshells with #8 or smaller shot.

 

I find the easiest way is to chamfer a spent & deprimed case.  I then whack it with a hammer into gasket material (rubberized cork is available at O'Reilleys Auto Parts) over a wooden block.  Push the new wadding out with a bamboo skewer or drill bit.

[DaveS]

I got two bees last week, or one sure and a probable.   Neither one was Boone & Crockett material.  Anyone else have any luck?

 

I also hung out my bee trap for the ones who visit the deck while I'm patrolling the fence line.

I got stung by a red wasp. Dave 0, Wasp 1

 

Dave

[atlas3025]

Got a two-fer a moment ago!

[enfield]

Got 5 today, but all singles. They love to come out when it's hot and sunny.

[Troutburger]

Been cool here haven't seen any yet.

[jhc77]

Any salt type loads for a pellet gun? I've got two bumbles trying to run me off the deck. Hit one with an Airsoft P226 somehow but just knocked him for a loop before he was after me again.

[Clod Stomper]

Any salt type loads for a pellet gun? I've got two bumbles trying to run me off the deck. Hit one with an Airsoft P226 somehow but just knocked him for a loop before he was after me again.

Here ya go. http://www.cabelas.com/product/BUG-A-SALT/1848554.uts?productVariantId=3895421&srccode=cii_328768002&cpncode=43-43967597-2&WT.tsrc=CSE&WT.mc_id=BingPLA&WT.z_mc_id1=03921785&rid=20

It probably wasn't bumblebees, though. It is most likely carpenter bees, or "tomjollies" as we used to call them. They don't sting.

[xd shooter]

Haha took out 8 with the last 10 reds from last year when I got home today!! Whooo.

[owejia]

Been giving them heck for the last couple of days. Already shot over 350 bee loads. I made a set of dies to load them with walnut media and have loaded over a 1000 loads, loaded some in 357 special to use in my sp101, but you have to be close for the 2.2 in barrel. Also 38 spl in a 6in s&w reach out to about 6 ft. 45 lc work good also. My s&w brazilian in 45 acp work really well also. I buy my wads from circle fly out of Pa. This is the only hunting I do anymore. Live in a log house so have to keep them in check or they will make a mess.Also have three old barns to shoot at. Happy shooting.

[R_Bert]

drilled 16 22 28 (+ 1 YJ) carpenter bees this morning off of the end of fence.  Drop one, crunch it into the grass, and the others are nosy enough to investigate.  All within 12-18" .

Edited April 9, 2015 by R_Bert

[jhc77]

Here ya go. http://www.cabelas.com/product/BUG-A-SALT/1848554.uts?productVariantId=3895421&srccode=cii_328768002&cpncode=43-43967597-2&WT.tsrc=CSE&WT.mc_id=BingPLA&WT.z_mc_id1=03921785&rid=20

It probably wasn't bumblebees, though. It is most likely carpenter bees, or "tomjollies" as we used to call them. They don't sting.

They are carpenter bees. I've got a pellet gun, just wanted to know if there is a way to rig up a salt load of sorts. Similar to a cap and ball maybe?

[Sidewinder]

That looks to be a bumble bee, Sir. You shouldn't post that picture, TWRA might start looking for you. LOL

Pics... pics, we need close up pics of Carpenter Bees along-side Bumble Bees, so we can tell the difference.