Lol .... PCP's make the best SPIDER killers !!

[Motorhead]

Daddy long leg spiders, Black widows etc ... SPRING IS HERE and these are a real issue that can be daunting to control.  Yea poisons and sprays work, but so does taking a few moments with a PCP air rifle 

NO PELLET / NO CLEANING FELTS either ....

Get the muzzle within a foot or so and POP the air pulse blows them to pieces !!
Oddly they don't seem to react to the approaching barrel so long as you don't hit there webs ... too late 

Kinda FUN too ....

Scott

[oldnamvet]

Various bug, moths, millers, etc on the screen door and window also react the same way.  June bugs are especially fun to blow off the screens. Doesn't take much to amuse an old guy like me.  A bug zapper and a 6-pack are always entertaining.

[AlanMcD]

Very true, but if you want to stick with actually launching "ammo" at the target, it is hard to beat the Bug-a-Salt.  I have one and love it.  It really works as advertised, although it really is a spring gun and not a PCP . . .

[sawtoothscream]

Going to use the 2240 for bug duty.

[soolio]

I’ve been using my 12 gram markers and airguns to bug hunt for years. You want a challenge? Sneak up on those pesky houseflies that land;)

[Relentless Holiday]

Very true, but if you want to stick with actually launching "ammo" at the target, it is hard to beat the Bug-a-Salt.  I have one and love it.  It really works as advertised, although it really is a spring gun and not a PCP . . .

For shitz n grins I checked the square rail along the top.  Sure enough a 11mm mount  digs right into that soft plastic. it got a lazer. :-)

[ranchibi]

Scott, LOL..you’ve found the new green way to pest for spiders!

[Bentong]

Tried Qtip, clipped to bottom of cotton and shot  about a foot from the bug and "dang"....the Qtip got embedded on the drywall and bug got away. I now keep one AG with no LDC to blast 🕸️🕷️🕸️

[Sbak]

The bug a salts are cool, but you could do what I did. Go buy a daisy power line (or similar) for 25 bucks and a tin of coarse sea salt for 5 bucks and have a suped up bug a salts for half the price. Just use a small piece of foam (the foam packing pellets come in works well) and load it in the shot tray just like you would a pellet. Pour a small amount of salt down the barrel, pump it up 10 times, grab a six pack, and go chase wasps around the yard for a few hours.

[GKU]

[Tonykarter]

I used the HB17 for years on flies.  Three pumps and you had a useful range out to about 2 feet.  Then I got the Bug-A-Salt.  A whole new world of hunting opened up to me.  Flies and spiders, yes, but bigger game too.  More dangerous game.  Red wasps.  You wanna live dangerously?  Hunt red wasps with a Bug-A-Salt.  As close as I will ever come to the Golden Age of safari in Africa.  This must be somewhat like the trepidation those big game hunters felt when eye-to-eye with an angry Cape Buffalo.  As close as I will ever get anyway.  Effective range, inside one foot.  Outside that, it has the advantage, and you better be quick.  Or tough.

[KnifeMaker]

Am I the only one who uses a bright LED light, mounted on a nice Picatinny rail and Snipes Spiders at night up to 75 yards with a .25 pcp?

Man, i love Snipping. And it gets the "Wife Approval"!  Now that in itself is worth the ticket of admission.

Knife

[Relentless Holiday]

.... We need a Bug Hunters gateway.... 

[bReTt]

That’s a good one Scott!

I have done the same thing with my long barreled 1377 on spiders.  Just a week ago there were 2 new wasp nests being started in the hothouse.  I grabbed the FX and gave each a blast of air on high power.  It blew the wasps apart AND blew the nest down.  These were NEW nests, not established thriving nests so I don’t want to give anyone any ideas and get them in trouble.  Ha Ha! 

Another couple things I have done are baiting the wasps with lunch meat and jelly on a piece of cardboard clipped to a pellet trap.  In the past, I have shot at established wasps nests under the eaves of my shop.  The 1377 shines at this.  One pump is all it takes to launch the pellet and it doesn’t have enough power to damage the eaves.  The pellet will leave small dents in the wood but if you saw my shop, you would know that the dent only adds character to the appearance.  Ha ha! 

I love assaults on pesky insects! 

[KnifeMaker]

 

[nervoustrigger]

Interesting topic I can relate to...last summer I was holding a CO2 pistol in my hand when a mosquito landed on my leg.  They are disgusting and relentless vampires but also very daintily constructed.  It was then I realized the blast of pressure should serve to neatly disassemble them.  After clearing the pellet from the barrel, I gave her a what for.  Very satisfying.  The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito.

[triggertreat]

Am I the only one who uses a bright LED light, mounted on a nice Picatinny rail and Snipes Spiders at night up to 75 yards with a .25 pcp?

Man, i love Snipping. And it gets the "Wife Approval"!  Now that in itself is worth the ticket of admission.

Knife

Now that's something I may have to try.  When I shine a light out across the "back forty" I can see many Wolf spider eyes.  Those spiders are huge, hairy and scary.  I hate when I see one in the garage.

[blackdiesel]

I have been zapping wasps at 25 yards.  There's a place that happen to have a nice big pine tree as a backstop that they seem to gravitate to.  Whenever I'm in the backyard I get 2-4 of them. 

[Ribbonstone]

Use an old Benj. MSP (340 smooth bore).  Keep it in the pantry.  Not the same pressure, but it dumps all it's air, so it seems to work as well or better than the PCP's on the stray spider, wasp, or roach that invades.