This is not good
This damn fly has been tormenting me for like two hours now. Running into my head, buzzing my pretty orange Holland coffee cup. I have just about had it. I don't have a fly swatter. I found myself eyeing the S&W Model 28 and the handful of 158 gr magnums laying on my desk. Ho much do you need to lead a fly at 2 feet with a 1200 fps projectile???
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Ricci Wright wrote:This damn fly has been tormenting me for like two hours now. Running into my head, buzzing my pretty orange Holland coffee cup. I have just about had it. I don't have a fly swatter. I found myself eyeing the S&W Model 28 and the handful of 158 gr magnums laying on my desk. Ho much do you need to lead a fly at 2 feet with a 1200 fps projectile???
Use hair spray. Freeze them in flight. If you flush them get the whirlpool going first. Because as soon as they hit the spray melts and they can fly away.0 -
I've "heard," you can find logging chains and an anvil on the internet. 
:shock:
Maybe that will help.0 -
dfletcher wrote:Ricci Wright wrote:This damn fly has been tormenting me for like two hours now. Running into my head, buzzing my pretty orange Holland coffee cup. I have just about had it. I don't have a fly swatter. I found myself eyeing the S&W Model 28 and the handful of 158 gr magnums laying on my desk. Ho much do you need to lead a fly at 2 feet with a 1200 fps projectile???
Use hair spray. Freeze them in flight. If you flush them get the whirlpool going first. Because as soon as they hit the spray melts and they can fly away.
Hairspray, OMG that brings back a fond memory.
Back 1978, or maybe it was '79, was gettin' ready to go out with friends from school when I heard my step sister, operative word there Step sister, scream in the bathroom and holler "get in here and kill it".
When I got there she was standin' there butt azz nekid with a can of hairspray in her hand pointed at the floor. On the floor was one of the biggest wolf spiders I've ever seen, tryin' it's damnedest to run. Poor damn spider was glistening with hairspray that was rapidly setting up and just as rapidly impeding it's attempts to run. It just got slower and slowwwer until it finally froze in place.0 -
Maybe you smell like carrion.
(That'd be Roadkill, for you North Carolinians.)0 -
Best Fly getter is shop vac with the wand. Once they land, ease it toward them - gone.
I have a small 1.5hp at arms reach in the project trailer as I type. I have the hose in a holster setup. I can hit the switch with the wand and zap them before they can bother.
My 16gal shop vac at home will take them out in the air if they get close, course, it also gets anything else nearby.
Kinda satisfying is a strange way.0 -
tcattt wrote:Best Fly getter is shop vac with the wand. Once they land, ease it toward them - gone.
I have a small 1.5hp at arms reach in the project trailer as I type. I have the hose in a holster setup. I can hit the switch with the wand and zap them before they can bother.
My 16gal shop vac at home will take them out in the air if they get close, course, it also gets anything else nearby.
Kinda satisfying is a strange way.
This is too funny.
I was playing Lord of the Flies, the last several days - at my 3 story back windows that edge my living room.
Somehow, it was like the Omen, big black flies everywhere. (I thought maybe Ricci was visiting.)
I was taking great pleasure eradicating them with the shop vac.0 -
I've heard that bathing once a week helps. You might try that. 0 -
I second the "Bug-a-salt". Wasps, spiders, flies, almost crawling or flying bug, and it will keep kids busy at deer camp for a long time. Had to caution them not to shoot each other because it stings pretty bad. (I tried it!) 0 -
GreatGuns wrote:Sounds like the perfect occasion for a ?Bug-Assault? salt shooter. They work, best with a course salt. They also make a mess.
Jim
+1,was my first thought also,,,0 -
Might as well go at it well-prepared. 0 -
No problem. CCI .22Lr Bug Shot. Never fails. 0 -
LOL
I guess spiders over rode modesty that day :shock: :shock:
last thought do you ever reminder of that day now ?asphalt cowboy wrote:dfletcher wrote:Ricci Wright wrote:This damn fly has been tormenting me for like two hours now. Running into my head, buzzing my pretty orange Holland coffee cup. I have just about had it. I don't have a fly swatter. I found myself eyeing the S&W Model 28 and the handful of 158 gr magnums laying on my desk. Ho much do you need to lead a fly at 2 feet with a 1200 fps projectile???
Use hair spray. Freeze them in flight. If you flush them get the whirlpool going first. Because as soon as they hit the spray melts and they can fly away.
Hairspray, OMG that brings back a fond memory.
Back 1978, or maybe it was '79, was gettin' ready to go out with friends from school when I heard my step sister, operative word there Step sister, scream in the bathroom and holler "get in here and kill it".
When I got there she was standin' there butt azz nekid with a can of hairspray in her hand pointed at the floor. On the floor was one of the biggest wolf spiders I've ever seen, tryin' it's damnedest to run. Poor damn spider was glistening with hairspray that was rapidly setting up and just as rapidly impeding it's attempts to run. It just got slower and slowwwer until it finally froze in place.0 -
nah. I tried all that at one time or another. bb gun/salt is impossible when they're flying, vacuum has nowhere near enough range when they're flying, aerosols pattern too wide too quick and you get crap all over, flyswatter you have to wait until they land and that gets boring. only thing I found that's really worth it is a fly strip. 0 -
haven't tried one of those electrified tennis racket things though, they look promising and only cost 3 bucks 0 -
A restaurant had a clear baggy of water hanging over the drive up window and they swore it kept the flys away. 0 -
buschmaster wrote:haven't tried one of those electrified tennis racket things though, they look promising and only cost 3 bucks
I picked up one from Harbor Freight and keep it out in the garage. Works decently - have to get them while they are flying (mid-air).
Was up on a rental houseboat fishing in Northern MN, last month, and wished I'd brought it on the trip. Lots of flies.0
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