What is your flyswatter percentage?

The records documenting my kill-ratio with swatters was lost in The Great Fire of 1965.

But my folded-magazine rate has been the envy of every retired jackass in North America since…..I don’t know…....1971….

I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for flies and other pests.
I shoot them with size #16 rubber bands.

Like a modern day William Tell I once shot a vitamin pill off my 4 year old son’s head from a meter away.

75% It’s hitting them in midflight that’s hard but sooo satisfying!
The trick to hitting a sitting fly is to aim at a point 2” behind said fly.

Noted.

The housestaff use hand shaped plastic swatters with a long handle & are warned to hit at least a 90% strike rate or face being fired…so far, so good.

I spray them with rubbing alcohol. It’s a tidy and sanitary way of killing them. My spray percentage is 100.

I worked with Eric, who used his snips (a small wire cutting scissors) to cut bees in half. I got good at it, but he was the master!

I have a battery operated swatter. It looks like a small tennis raquet. Zap zap! I am pretty good, but my daughter is a pro.

I escalated to a vacuum a couple of years ago when I had a moth problem.

Listen…..you all do understand that flies are people too…..

I’m just sayin’.....

No they’re not. They are short lived, germ infested, brainless pests. They do not ever come to the aid of another.
The only uses they have is feeding a variety of critters, and determining time of death by forensics.

I never kill flies. However, I do try to prevent them.

I kinda enjoy them when it is hot out. You know those back scratchers that are like a little hand?

Four or five flies crawling around on your back is a lot better.