S/W 9mm short spoon against hornets nest

[Rusty Heap]

Grins.


made with my own artistic impression of death via lead poisoning.

joys of living on 5 acres.

my video:

[Bill Douglas]

Do be careful. When I was a little boy my friend Mark Allen and I shot up a bee hive with .22s. They chased us and GOT us.

[svandamme]

1-0 against the hornets you say

Sooooo they moved out after that then?

[KFC911]

Isn't a 9mm short just a wimpy .380?

Everybody needs a .44 magmum on occasion....'just because

.45 Arroz Con Pollo would be my menu selection....

I am a procastinator extrordinaire too....I need to get off my butt and send some amps in for "large space" giggles too ....but I'm sloooooow.

[svandamme]

I don't think it matters much on a paper hornets nest if that boolIt comes through with 90 gr @1,025 OR 115gr @ 1180 FPS

[rfuerst911sc]

Use a 12 gauge ......... do it right or not at all !

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by KC911

Isn't a 9mm short just a wimpy .380?

Everybody needs a .44 magmum on occasion....'just because

.45 Arroz Con Pollo would be my menu selection....

I am a procastinator extrordinaire too....I need to get off my butt and send some amps in for "large space" giggles too ....but I'm sloooooow.

9 short (kurz) IS a .380

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by targa911S

9 short (kurz) IS a .380

Yep...so I figure one 12 ga. Fiocchi 00 Defensive load buckshot is worth a dozen of 'em...all at once

I'll leave the ballistics up to Higgy....

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

Use a 12 gauge ......... do it right or not at all !

Go Big or Go Home you say?


how about a 65 pound cast iron Black Powder Cannon?

.68 bore.


A Guteral sound you feel.

KAAAA BOOOOM

[svandamme]

with hornets, there is only one right weapon to use and that's a flame thrower with f'ing Napalm , not liquid fuel, NAPALM.

Burn the suckers fast and hot, with a good afterburn , just to make sure

[Jeff Higgins]

I remember Dave (Rusty Heap) and I taking turns on that very same hornets' nest with my M1A Scout Squad rifle one afternoon. It took a few magazines, but we did manage to knock some pretty big pieces off of it. They were equally unimpressed. Their flimsy paper housing offers almost no resistance.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by svandamme

with hornets, there is only one right weapon to use and that's a flame thrower with f'ing Napalm , not liquid fuel, NAPALM.

Burn the suckers fast and hot, with a good afterburn , just to make sure

I did that with MAPP gas. It was a very small nest. Wasps burn!

[svandamme]

It better be a small nest cause else they will come out and find you.
My 2 uncles and dad, when I was ten had found a nest in a old railroad sleepr converted to sitting bench.. They thought it was a good idea to douse it with petrol and light it.

Things I learned that day
1 uncles could run faster then I had expected them to run with their beer gut
2 the wasps wer faster yet
3 The thing burned for half an hour
4 the wasps were still pissed an hour later
5 and then continued regular flight ops from the still smoking nest.

[svandamme]

I f ing hate wasps. They're are hard core @55holes

[red-beard]

The nests are not like the enclosed nest. They are open honey comb looking things, which hang down.

[Eric at Pelican Parts]

Nope nope nope, no way in hell I'd do that. I'd need a rocket launcher

[svandamme]

european wasps are smaller, but they can have much much bigger nests
think 6000 for a normal summer, or 15000 if it's really hot for a long time..



And they usually live underground or under a roof or somewhere that you just can't destroy em easily..

The key is to trap the scouts, because if even just one of the bastards manages to get back to the nest to tell em you are having a BBQ... ,fogettabout it..
Don't whack em, even if you succeed a dead wasp gives off something that attracts and pisses off the others..

This works, I do it every summer... orange juice in bottle funnel

[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Go Big or Go Home you say?


how about a 65 pound cast iron Black Powder Cannon?

.68 bore.


A Guteral sound you feel.

KAAAA BOOOOM

I like this idea !

[KFC911]

I've just discovered a new outpost...with my backpack blower. I'm going back at 'em with wimpy spray that only reaches out 25' . So...

If'n I don't post again within a few hours....can I get some artillery coverage ?

[red-beard]

When I lived in the Northeast US, we would have Yellow Jacket Wasps which we called "ground bees". I don't see those around here. We mostly have paper wasps (nest I put the pictures), Mud Dobbers and the big red ones that like to land in my pool to collect water.