Pictures of how bugs can affect a case box

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Wilbur

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The photos are my old case box. I noticed that the some cases were higher than others and had some difficulty pushing one of them into the box. Turned the box over and found bug mud in the holes. The reason I'm posting these pictures is to note that the varmints not only used my case box but they moved the cases as well.
 

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It's funny you bring this up. The brass I got from you (some of them) had what looked like dirt dobbers (spelling?) nest in them ?
 
We got dirt daubers in the south! They look like jet black wasps and fill every nook n cranny they can with mud and dead bugs
 
Scott - I shoulda looked at those cases but I had no idea that they would have "stuff" in them. Amazing that a bug would get into that box and do anything....with so many other places to go do it.
 
Dusty Stevens said:
We got dirt daubers in the south! They look like jet black wasps and fill every nook n cranny they can with mud and dead bugs
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Spiders are their favorite "bugs". Don't know if they are green when they put them there but they turn green for sure. They stay alive for a long time - the spiders!!
 
Hey Wilbur
Where ever you live I don't want to be there! Up here on Lake Ontario all we get are (Snow Flies)

Joe Salt
 
Well, what do you do when a barrel maker tells you the reason your barrel is no good because you let mud dobbers get into the barrel and build nests and the chemical reaction from their nests destroys the stainless steel barrel and that is why you have a hole in your barrel. NOW, for the important question? What is a mud dobber?
 
Black wasp. That nest in the mud mostly. Monroe Rifle pistol club had them real bad this summer. I didn't see any at Western Wayne, though.
Paper wasp build mud nest on the west side of my house. Strange....They look similar. I think.
 
Wilba

"bug" is sort of a slang term for insects. If you accept that, spiders are not bugs they are arachnids....8 legs not 6.
 
The case box was closed and the only way in were those little holes in the bottom. I think they are too small for dirt daubers and the stuff didn't look like a dirt dauber did it. I've seen some smaller, bright green, deals that look and act similar to dirt daubers. Could have been...don't know. It took a while, longer than I thought, but I got the mud out and all is well.

Scott - did you try to clean those cases or just throw the bad ones away? That darn mud was real close to rock!
 
Wilbur said:
The case box was closed and the only way in were those little holes in the bottom. I think they are too small for dirt daubers and the stuff didn't look like a dirt dauber did it. I've seen some smaller, bright green, deals that look and act similar to dirt daubers. Could have been...don't know. It took a while, longer than I thought, but I got the mud out and all is well.

Scott - did you try to clean those cases or just throw the bad ones away? That darn mud was real close to rock!
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You know me I ain't throwin nothing away I cleaned them I'm sure the first firing will get what I might have left in there out
 
I purchased 1,400 30/06 cases for $14.00 at a flea market in Buck Horn, NC. Every case had a dirt dobber in it and the cases had 30 years of patina; no one wanted to clean the cases. I allowed the black wasp to hatch before cleaning. I should have warned the wife.

A smith in Hawaii said there was only one thing worst than a 30 cal wasp; he claimed the 22 cal was the worst. He said it was nothing personal; if he did not plug all the holes they found it.

The up side; the dirt dobber places a spider in every hole.

F. Guffey
 
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