I was at Sportsman's Warehouse yesterday buying ammo. Among the camping gear and assorted outdoors equipment and doo-dads I saw something called a Bug-A-Salt, which looks like a table salt shooting fly swatter in the form of an air gun. Has anyone here used one? Is it useful for getting flies, or really just a novelty item?
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2I use the bug zapper sold at Harbor Freight, it works great on flying insects.
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3My son got me one as a joke. As it turns out I use it in my office on wasps that get inside. Its very effective and doesn't make a mess. Its range is much greater than the Harbor Freight swatter.
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4i have this, and occasionally wander the house saying "kill, Kill, KILL!".highdesert wrote:I use the bug zapper sold at Harbor Freight,
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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5Do this in your skivvies and the picture is complete!lurker wrote:i have this, and occasionally wander the house saying "kill, Kill, KILL!".highdesert wrote:I use the bug zapper sold at Harbor Freight,
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6Have one at home, I quite like it. I wish I brought it with me to SF, for some reason there's a bunch of flying bugs in my apartment that could use a-salting, and I'd prefer to be able to leave my window open.
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7Are they those stupid mayflies that just fly around in circles in the center of the room?CrazyWolf wrote:Have one at home, I quite like it. I wish I brought it with me to SF, for some reason there's a bunch of flying bugs in my apartment that could use a-salting, and I'd prefer to be able to leave my window open.
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8DoctorB (doesn't sign on very often) has one. It's not long range, but it does take the little buggers out. (My Harbor Freight bug badminton racquet works great if you can make contact with the damn things, but that's not always easy.)
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9underwear?HuckleberryFun wrote:Do this in your skivvies and the picture is complete!lurker wrote:i have this, and occasionally wander the house saying "kill, Kill, KILL!".highdesert wrote:I use the bug zapper sold at Harbor Freight,
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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10Aaaaiiiii!!! I must dig my mind's eye out with a red hot spoon!!lurker wrote:underwear?HuckleberryFun wrote:Do this in your skivvies and the picture is complete!lurker wrote:i have this, and occasionally wander the house saying "kill, Kill, KILL!".highdesert wrote:I use the bug zapper sold at Harbor Freight,
"There never was a union of church and state which did not bring serious evils to religion."
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
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11my work here is done.SwampGrouch wrote:Aaaaiiiii!!! I must dig my mind's eye out with a red hot spoon!!lurker wrote:underwear?HuckleberryFun wrote:Do this in your skivvies and the picture is complete!lurker wrote: i have this, and occasionally wander the house saying "kill, Kill, KILL!".
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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12Some seem larger, judging by my bites and the tiny blood-streaks when I catch them, some are huge mosquitoes.Maccabee wrote:Are they those stupid mayflies that just fly around in circles in the center of the room?CrazyWolf wrote:Have one at home, I quite like it. I wish I brought it with me to SF, for some reason there's a bunch of flying bugs in my apartment that could use a-salting, and I'd prefer to be able to leave my window open.
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14They work quite well. I bought mine for black widows. For larger insects, buy the coarse salt.HuckleberryFun wrote:Has anyone here used one? Is it useful for getting flies, or really just a novelty item?
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15FlyGuy wrote:This type of weapon Scares me.
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like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
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16skeeters. i very much prefer to kill skeeters than to shoo them away. if you shoo them away they just come back. kill them. kill kill kill. die, bloodsuckers. kill.
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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17Every hunter knows the importance of using the proper ammo for the game being pursued...chaoticmind wrote:They work quite well. I bought mine for black widows. For larger insects, buy the coarse salt.HuckleberryFun wrote:Has anyone here used one? Is it useful for getting flies, or really just a novelty item?
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18Indeedrascally wrote:Every hunter knows the importance of using the proper ammo for the game being pursued...
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19I followed their development funding on Facebook. Finally bought one at Sportsman's Warehouse (no shipping cost). Love it for flies and spiders...much less mess than swatting.
No clue why some kid doesn't have a route going from restaurant to restaurant killing their flies for a few bucks.
No clue why some kid doesn't have a route going from restaurant to restaurant killing their flies for a few bucks.
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