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Online Darren Haverstick

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Found a new source for wadding
« on: July 10, 2023, 07:42:39 AM »


I found this source of smoothbore wadding yesterday, the hard way. I was doing some work next to my garage and accidentally shook the blackberry bramble it is in. The loud buzzing that followed alerted me to their presence so I quickly vacated the premises before the angry cloud of hornets was able to descend upon me. I only got stung once, but that was plenty! I think I'll wait until things cool off, both literally and figuratively, before I have another conversation with the occupants.

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Re: Found a new source for wadding
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2023, 09:59:03 AM »
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FWIW, I wait until it starts to get dark out, when all the hornets are asleep inside the nest, then use a flashlight to assist me while I heavily spray the entrance to the nest with a wasp-killer spray to kill the occupants (no taxidermy, here).  :applaud
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Re: Found a new source for wadding
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2023, 02:49:28 PM »
:o MURDERER!!!  :laffing

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Re: Found a new source for wadding
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2023, 08:17:11 PM »
Quote from: Winter Hawk on July 10, 2023, 02:49:28 PM
:o MURDERER!!!  :laffing
No, no,  no, I think more on the line of executioner.  Yep, that's the ticket.
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Re: Found a new source for wadding
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2023, 08:52:06 PM »
THE ONLY GOOD HORNET IS A DEAD HORNET!
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Re: Found a new source for wadding
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2023, 09:08:43 AM »
I actually have a fondness for hornets since I have seen them, many times, catch, dismember, and carry off horse flies. And I HATE horse flies! When my brother and I were kids we used to love to watch the hornets catch flies off the cows in our grandpa's barn lot. Cheap entertainment!

As long as I don't bother those hornets by the garage then they don't bother me. I can live with that.

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