![]() ![]() Many people mistake yellowjacket wasps for hornets. I know - common sense isn’t that common, is it? For sure and for certain you don’t fire the SHRED-ER into a hornets’ nest! If you know where it is patterned (this is a shot pistol, it doesn’t shoot a solid projectile) you might take out a single hornet if the shot presented itself. I’m hoping the SHRED-ER can eradicate critters like this completely. I shot this one in the face with the gun and it reared up and charged me. ![]() They seem to be smaller here than in California (up on Mount Hamilton) and elsewhere, but they are aggressive. I once killed a tarantula on my front walk, here in Texas, using my old BUG-A-SALT 2.0. I would have loved to have had one of these. 22 long rifle bird shot! And I didn’t make a dent. I shot them with my Sheridan Blue Streak when they would hover long enough. I tried tennis rackets, but they must have seen them coming. If a bug a salt shredder had been available when I lived in Maryland, I would have eradicated swarms of carpenter bees. Large water beetles (sometimes called cockroaches, but they’re not), If the other BUG-A-SALT guns work (and they do) why do you need this one? Well, they are for flies. You gotta love that! And we charged it to that same credit card that their website said was invalid. Just a straightforward transaction that went exactly as it was supposed to. ![]() No, “I called and no one picked up.” business. Wonder of wonders, that is exactly what he did! No fooling around. He would call me and take my order when they had more to sell. He said they were all out of the SHRED-ERs, but they expected a small shipment in a week to 10 days. I then called them and a man named Ely took my order over the phone. I tried three times to purchase it online, so if you use a Mac and use Chrome as your browser, I’m warning you that it may not work. The BUG-A-SALT website is hinky and said my business credit card was invalid. So let me tell you what happened when I went online to purchase the SHRED-ER. Pelletier, just as it does to most of my readers. In the eyes of airgunners, though, the only people who might think the SHRED-ER is a firearm are the students and faculty of clown college! BUG-A-SALT has gone above and beyond to make this thing look non-lethal. That’s a pretty sensible warning, aside from the fact that EVERY firearm is potentially lethal. DO NOT CHANGE THE COLORATION AND MARKINGS TO MAKE IT LOOK MORE LIKE A FIREARM. POLICE AND OTHERS MAY THINK IT IS A LETHAL FIREARM. Still the instructions bear the warning “DO NOT BRANDISH OR DISPLAY THE SHRED-ER IN PUBLIC - IT MAY CONFUSE PEOPLE AND COULD BE A CRIME. Brightly coloredĪs you can see in the picture, the SHRED-ER is brightly colored. So both grip panels must be removed to install a cartridge. I sure hope so because my other BUG-A-SALT is more than 6 years old and is still going strong.Įxcept for the colors the grip is the standard Vigilante grip and the handle for the CO2 tensioning screw tucks neatly inside. If you do that and follow all the other instructions, this pest-blaster should last for many years. For the benefit of anyone reading this who is not an airgunner, do that BEFORE you install and pierce the CO2 cartridge, so the oil will be blown into the interior of the valve by the force of the gas and will get on every sealing surface inside the gun. If the appearance alone isn’t enough to convince you, the instructions say to use Crosman Powerlet CO2 cartridges only, and to maintain the gun with one drop of Crosman Pelgunoil on the tip of each CO2 cartridge. This is a Crosman Vigilante set up to shoot salt. Or, as reader RidgeRunner is so fond of saying, the company formerly known as Crosman. For everyone else, think 7629 Routes 5 & 20, Bloomfield, New York. Seriously, if you have been an airgunner for any length of time you can look at that picture and know instantly where this gun was made. That first photo is a thousand-word picture for airgunners. This is a family blog so I won’t tell you what their tagline says, but I’m sure it appeals to many of their customers. Well, I know that she would just LOVE today’s topic airgun - the BUG-A-SALT SHRED-ER. ![]() I wrote that report in memory of her, because she liked the yellow fly-zapper. This is a poignant report for me, because when I looked at the last time I wrote about a BUG-A-SALT gun, it was July 30, 2015, four days after my wife, Edith, passed away. ![]()
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