Kosher salt has bigger granules.
I found it hits harder than regular table salt in my bug-a-salt gun.
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Yes I imagine a lot has changed in 40 years since I left. Don’t think I’d get away with ghosting woodchucks off the back porch anymore. Like I did when I lived up near Ticonderoga. Heck for all I know they’re protected species up there now lol. Is it true the chipmunks are having a sexual identity crisis. Sorry couldn’t help it you have my condolences. Like I said I left 40 years ago and don’t regret not ever being back there.
I am using a 629 S&W and although they are not prone to rust, I wonder if the salt residue would hurt the gun. After reading the suggestions, I found some walnut shell media that I was going to throw out. I guess hording has advantages....sometimes.
What is the process for the grits or walnut shell loads? Cereal box wads with the grits sandwiched between the layers? Also about how much media is a good load?
I have seen reports of folks using acini di pepe pasta or pastina for "shot".
I was reading thru the shot load threads and realized I had 10lbs of spent water filter media. It is 75/25 copper and zinc shavings, called KDF-85. Would probably shred anything hit with it.
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Have you tried those in a pistol/revolver? Would not those tiny flakes plate the bore with copper and zinc. Not all that sure, just curious. james
Loaded a bunch of 45 Colt with rice. Used it for 10 years every summer. Loads of fun.
Loaded some 444Marlin cases with Red Dot and rice for the Pedersoli Howdah. Going to really go after those big wood bees.
Don
My bride thought my son and I were silly shooting carpenter bees and wasps with the 45 colt walnut shell loads until she tried it. Now I have to keep a good supply of walnut loads just for her.
Indeed we now get a chuckle of seeing her patrolling about the porch. Also has a good hit ratio.
We also make #10 and #12 shot rimfire loads with #4 gelatin capsules for slightly longer distance work. Just don’t get them wet.
When the occasional carpenter bee buzzes my shop, I break out my badminton racket. It makes for great fun. Just stand still with your racket at “cocked & locked” and swing away.
Not sure why they come around. I don’t have any wood exposed anywhere.
And one day last summer I managed to get about 2 dozen carpenter bees with a 5 foot piece of furring strip just outside my hangar doors. A racket was too short. They were lying wounded all over.
For the underground yellow jackets, I use a weed eater over the hole and stomp the ground around the hole to get them to come out. I call it my whirling dervish. For around or inside the house, I use a bug-a-salt gun.
Loaded some .45LC 2.0gr of TiteWad with long grain rice between 2 cardboard wads. I chucked a .45ACP case in my drillpress, ran it with a file on the mouth at angle to sharpen it and cut the wads with it spinning. Drilled the primer out and pushed the wads out from the back.
Shooting out of my ADC .45/.410. Blows them away like Dirty Harry. How about a new caliber name?
.45 Long Grain
Here's a couple vids of me hunting lol.
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I drilled my 44 brass primer pockets with a 1/8" drill bit and seated a std primer. Then weighed 1.5 gr of Bullseye and loaded it, then took a Lee powder scoop and filled the case with grits, walnut shells or what ever directly on top of the powder charge. Then, like Steve showed in his post, I sharpened a 44 case with a chamfer tool and used a hammer to pound out some milk carton wads with a piece of scrap carpet to pound on. Next take a ball point pen, pencil, small wooden dowel and seat the wad just below flush in the whole concoction and apply a roll crimp. Easy to do. Good luck
You need to get it mounted ...
A nice shoulder mount would look good on the wall ...
But you have to stop with the "Heel Stomp" ...
That drives the Taxidermists insane ... all the extra work !
Gary
He was wiggling just a bit, so I put him out of OUR misery. After a couple of these flying insects put me into anaphylatic shock, I find it really hard to have a shred of compassion for them. Hard to believe that only 2 little critters this small can kill you....but they can.