Here's one option: https://smile.amazon.com/BUG-A-SALT...id=1532904831&sr=8-2&keywords=bug+assault+2.0 I got mine at Cabela's on sale for a few dollars less.
My wife bought me a new gun
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tark
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Can I get one in full-auto? Is that legal? Lol
mcduck
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I had one of the first ones produced (I was part of the "go fund me" project to launch these). I have also had the 2.0 version and the lawn and garden. The lawn and garden version is my favorite. It has a bit more range and power, and doesn't make substantially more mess salt wise. The weak point of these guns is the latch to the salt magazine which have eventually broken on all but one of these guns I have owned. If you are not terribly worried about the safety of shooting charges of salt, I highly reccomend deactivating the automatic safety with a drop or two of super glue applied with the gun cocked and safety off. This will greatly increase your rate of fire which is highly useful in target rich environments. Unlike a previous poster, I have actually found the "sights" to be pretty well regulated and will increase your lethality on longer shots at stationary targets. Have fun!
That might work.on wasps
Good Ol' Boy
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I had considered one of the lawn and garden ones for a massive carpenter bee problem we had around the fascia of our garage.
Turns out a 16g finish nailer at 100psi is plenty fun and devastatingly effective. I also replaced the fascia board with PVC.
I still may end up with one for general flying insect duty.
Turns out a 16g finish nailer at 100psi is plenty fun and devastatingly effective. I also replaced the fascia board with PVC.
I still may end up with one for general flying insect duty.
For those that dont have a salt shooter yet (or even if you do and want to try wing shooting flys) try an rubbing alcohol bottle and a squirt gun top....you can dilute it down to around 50 if you want....then when you get REALLY bored, get a torch.....
I just realized i can put alcohol in squirt pistols...guess i have a reason to go buy some.
I just realized i can put alcohol in squirt pistols...guess i have a reason to go buy some.
Twiki357
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Now that you guys have pretty much talked me into getting one, I have two questions.
1. What kind of range do these things have?
2. Are they powerful enough to kill the crickets that keep showing up in my kitchen?
1. What kind of range do these things have?
2. Are they powerful enough to kill the crickets that keep showing up in my kitchen?
Two to three foot range for flies. Should put the hurt on crickets if they're the softer bodied black types. Brown crickets are a bit tougher, so I don't know about them. Also good for spiders, moths and other non-armored arthropods. Wasps require chemical warfare in the form of hot-shot aerosols that wipe them out of the sky at a safe distance.
Deus Machina
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Considering the lawn-and-garden type myself, now. Florida has plenty of bugs.
I'm already just about certified marksman with a can of wasp spray.
I'm already just about certified marksman with a can of wasp spray.
doubleh
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I managed to find some prey yesterday afternoon and a few today while taking a break from lawn mowing duties. At two feet or a little more against something flat (wall, doorstep) they just disappear. At around three feet they bounce and are DRT. I haven't tried anything farther than that. When shooting them off the glass topped patio table they go flying off and land on the concrete patio deader than a doorknob.
Mine came from Skell, the maker. bugassualt.com. Amazon has them at the same price. Free shipping from either place.
Mine came from Skell, the maker. bugassualt.com. Amazon has them at the same price. Free shipping from either place.
BilliamB.
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Gotta' get me one before Schumer hears about them.
MidRoad
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Shhhh don't say that he will hear you! Than he will tell his pal Cuomo. Cuomo will ban it overnight and I'll have to cut the pistol grip of my dad's so he don't get in trouble!
BilliamB.
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Cuomo ought to be sharing a cell with Percoco. That ought to keep them both SAFE.
If1HitU
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Yep I need a Bug gun.....
JR24
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Every time I see one of those rackets I have fond memories of my father prowling the outskirts of a BnB we went to in AK looking for the swarms of giant mosquitoes we had up there. Big, fat, slow and they made an impressive racket in the electric.. uh, racket.
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