small varmints...Fly swatter season

[Clark]

I tell guys who fly to Africa and shoot elephants.... "You can get just as much hunting experience matching wits with the rat that lives in your wood pile. The hunt is in your mind."

 

[hooligan1]

I agree.

 

[rickyrick]

I've had as much fun trying to live catch a possum or an attic rat as any other hunt

 

[power5]

Bug-a-salt is good. Not sure how many I have actually killed.

 

[JERRYS.]

I like carpenter bees, they are sporting critters to go after with a badminton racket.

 

[Emerson Biggies]

Yoe Clark,
Isn't that the new magnum model swatter?

 

[Clark]

The standard non +P fly swatter with handle and shaft, made with a twisted painted pair of #15 steel wire gauge [0.076"], will deflect 4" with 1 pound of force at the business end.

The fishing pole handle fly swatter with fiber glass tube 0.418" tapering to 0.402" will deflect 1/4" in the same test.

This make the fishing pole fly swatter 16 times stiffer than the old wire handle swatter.

I swatted at flies hundreds of times with the old swatter, and the new one is:
1) loud when it hits the wall [wear ear protection]
2) fast. I can bat flies out of the air
3) explosive. Pieces of the fly and fly guts spray outward [wear eye protection]

 

[Art Eatman]

Heh. All this reminded me of the opening scene of the movie, "Once Upon A Time In The West".

 

[Skeets]

Fly Season

Been at this fly thing since was a tyke! But thanks to TFL,things are about to change Bigtime!! Open country,no houses,no people,no rules.OOo-RRaah