Insect General Hospital: This is a sad day for us all, the 2 red wasps admitted yesterday for gunshot wounds have succumbed to their injuries. The a(s)salt is still under infestation, i mean investigation.
My wife brought one home last week and I thought ‘great, more useless stuff’. I got home tonight only to find a bunch of fruit flies in the basement bathroom and knew I had to get the Bug Hunter. It was a total massacre. I took way more shots than I should have, but I got all 10 of them on one tank of salt and had the best time doing it. I told my wife it was one of the best purchases that we have ever made.
Sounds a bit like my experience trying this thing out, lots of fun and while there might be salt everywhere you end up having more fun going on a bug hunt rather than just swinging a flyswatter around.
I might tear this down and mod it a bit, especially if I can get my hands on a second. I normally keep one blaster stock and try modding a spare, and this thing's neat enough I wouldn't want a mod went bad to ruin it.
Nice review! Certainly wasn't expecting this as a buzzbee product! Yeah, it's a shame it doesn't work on tougher bugs. I had one of the old single barrel salt blasters, worked pretty well on spiders and flies, but not on wasps. Shells too tough.
Good points are two barrels and a low price. Effective on flies and small spiders at 1-2 foot range. Trigger squeeze is fairly light. Bad points are this salt shooter is really weak by comparison to the Bug-A-Salt 3.0, and thus doesn't have the distance accuracy as salt loses velocity quickly in the air. I would never use Bug Hunter on any stinging insects as it's just going to piss them off rather than kill or incapacitate them. The Bug-A-Salt is a more effective killer, just comes down to you get what you pay for.
I bought one and no flies around, tried on some pesky wasps, did not phase them at all, they were looking at me and thinky REALLY? I'll try on a fly eventually.
I have the bug-a-salt for house flies and fruit flies. Salt is poisonous so even if you can't get an up close kill shot as long as some salt makes contact it will slow them down.
I just grabbed one of these from Walmart, they are on clearance right now for 12 bucks. Couldnt pass that up. It does shoot a little weaker than the bug a salt but I’m really thinking of digging into this thing and modding it to shoot harder... if you could make a mod video on this thing, you’d be the man and you’d be doing a lot of us a huge favor lol
After seeing how weak this salt gun is after watching reviews, I immediately took it back to Walmart still in the box and immediately ordered a Bug A Salt on Amazon which will be here in 2 days. 🤙🏾
If you're dealing with wasps and such that's going to be the better salt gun. I've mostly got flies and knats here and it knocks them out just fine but struggles on the wasps and can't take down all of the beetles we have at the porch during evenings. I'm still thinking of modding this one for more punch.
@@MongooseJakeNerf I just wanted something for wasps and flies, every so often I find one in my apt and a fly swatter on a wasp can have repercussions if I miss lol.
@@lionelbutler6541 For wasps, this one isn't ideal. I tried to convey that in the review, as the only thing it does to them is either take off a wing a bit, or just make them mad like crazy.
Was that bug-a-salt thing really doing well enough to warrant cloning? I've been seeing the ads on TV for so long I figured they were still trying to dump their original stock of them.
I don't know if they are doing well, but it does work on flies and some spiders. Close shots are killers but far away shots stuns them long enough to kill them up close.
They actually made a high powered CO2 revolver capable of killing hornets recently and had a hard time keeping them in stock when they first released them.
Yeah considering they're on version 3 they're constantly sold out and now they're making another model based on a CO2 air gun that's constantly sold out every time they get stuck and I'd say they're probably doing pretty well
I have one of these it’s so fun. Dropped so many roach , fly , ant and gnat body’s with that thing but I wanna buy a bug assault 3 for the stronger exoskeleton.
I think the Bug assaults would be great for wasps, which always seem to want to hang around my grill. Those are the only real place this Bug Hunter falls short.
Hey mongoose Jake have you tried the air warriors star if you have did you have the issue of priming forcing the unfired darts out of the other barrels?
I've had a bunch of Stars and will actually be doing a updated review on the new DG set soon. No issues in the past models though, have to get to testing the current version and see if anything has changed.
@@MongooseJakeNerf Thanks I'm curious because mine keeps forcing the unfired darts out when primed. Funnily enough I only got the star because I wanted the target that came with it and the slingshot.
I'm still using mine around my grill and porch even to this day, so reliability has been great. It doesn't have the punch of the Bug-A-Salt though, that thing smacks bugs hard!
@@MongooseJakeNerf I've been through two bug a salts, one lawn & garden and one 3.0 and am on my third one. I wish they would just send you parts and not make you send the whole gun back. I usually just buy another and the broken ones are parts guns.
Interesting... so it looks like an evolution of the Bug-A-Salt. Same basic mechanics, even down to the feeding mechanism. Bigger salt "hopper" and two barrels instead of one. What an absolutely bizarre market for Buzz Bee to dip into, especially considering their name, haha. I *really* want to make this fire something like Elites/Halfs because that shell is ridiculously neat. Pulling out the salt hopper and using that as a loading port would be just amazing.
Yeah, I made sure to ask if they had any interactions with Bug-A-Salt, and Buzz Bee confirmed that this is a all new design made by them. It's also about half the cost, so that's awesome.
I have both, the Bug Hunter at work and the Bug-A-Salt 3.0 at home. Bug-A-Salt is hands down better, as it's considerably more powerful. But Bug-A-Salt costs a lot more, and both are effective with flies at fly-swatter range. You can trust the Bug-A-Salt with wasps and yellow jackets, I wouldn't use this weaker salt shooter with them.
Half the price, seems like half the power, but true two stage trigger on a double barrel design. Good for flies, gnats, and mosquitoes, but struggles on wasps. As for the copying part, it's about as much copying as any brand making dart blasters is copying another, just with salt as the ammo this time around.
I think I have a Bug Assalt 2.0, but it can kill wasps, you just have to hit ‘em more than once. Never got stung by a wasp using it though. I’m pretty sure that I’ve killed at least one paper wasp with it and two bald-faced hornets with it. Hornets are a bit tougher than wasps. Took like 6 or so shots to bring those down, and like 4 to bring down a wasp. I’m pretty sure that they never figured out exactly what was causing them pain or pissing them off.
That'd be the big difference in the Bug Assault and this Bug Hunter. I've not had a Bug Assault in a while but they seemed in the past to have a solid hit, while this is a bit softer shooting. This works great on flies, mosquitoes, gnats and other softer bugs, and seems to bother the wasps enough to make them leave, but doesn't have the punch to just nuke them on the spot. I've been using this a ton though, and it's proven extremely reliable and useful.
@@MongooseJakeNerf that’s fair. I do think the bug hunter looks pretty fun though Edit: it kinda reminds me of the shotgun from an N64 game called Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. The shotgun in that game was a double barrel pump shotgun that fired both barrels at once lol
And it works exactly like the Double Shot or Double Fire with the dual stage trigger. Already passed on my suggestion that Buzz Bee makes a dart blaster based off of this shell.
Flies have been no problem for me with this, it's the red wasps that I seem to just annoy. Ants are also easy to get rid of with it. So, best thing I can guess is that you must be firing from a long way away, as my Bug Hunter doesn't suck at all, just is simply better with getting rid of certain pests than others.
Insect General Hospital: This is a sad day for us all, the 2 red wasps admitted yesterday for gunshot wounds have succumbed to their injuries. The a(s)salt is still under infestation, i mean investigation.
My wife brought one home last week and I thought ‘great, more useless stuff’. I got home tonight only to find a bunch of fruit flies in the basement bathroom and knew I had to get the Bug Hunter. It was a total massacre. I took way more shots than I should have, but I got all 10 of them on one tank of salt and had the best time doing it. I told my wife it was one of the best purchases that we have ever made.
Sounds a bit like my experience trying this thing out, lots of fun and while there might be salt everywhere you end up having more fun going on a bug hunt rather than just swinging a flyswatter around.
just use the bug a-salt its better
That's a truly unexpected review! Maybe with a k26 spring you can beat those wasps lol! Great 2022 for you and your family!
I might tear this down and mod it a bit, especially if I can get my hands on a second. I normally keep one blaster stock and try modding a spare, and this thing's neat enough I wouldn't want a mod went bad to ruin it.
Nice review! Certainly wasn't expecting this as a buzzbee product!
Yeah, it's a shame it doesn't work on tougher bugs. I had one of the old single barrel salt blasters, worked pretty well on spiders and flies, but not on wasps. Shells too tough.
I wonder if I could use it to salt my walk in our Michigan winters lol
Good points are two barrels and a low price. Effective on flies and small spiders at 1-2 foot range. Trigger squeeze is fairly light. Bad points are this salt shooter is really weak by comparison to the Bug-A-Salt 3.0, and thus doesn't have the distance accuracy as salt loses velocity quickly in the air. I would never use Bug Hunter on any stinging insects as it's just going to piss them off rather than kill or incapacitate them. The Bug-A-Salt is a more effective killer, just comes down to you get what you pay for.
I bought one and no flies around, tried on some pesky wasps, did not phase them at all, they were looking at me and thinky REALLY? I'll try on a fly eventually.
So i can salt my walking path in the winter from my doorway?
Absolutely! Just crack the door open and fire about 100 times, lol
I use rubber 2 bands to lock the safty mechanism. It's just a hassle to turn it on every shot.
There is special salt on amazon for the salt blasters
I have the bug-a-salt for house flies and fruit flies. Salt is poisonous so even if you can't get an up close kill shot as long as some salt makes contact it will slow them down.
Salt is poisonous to humans too. Causes all kinds of health issues.
I just grabbed one of these from Walmart, they are on clearance right now for 12 bucks. Couldnt pass that up. It does shoot a little weaker than the bug a salt but I’m really thinking of digging into this thing and modding it to shoot harder... if you could make a mod video on this thing, you’d be the man and you’d be doing a lot of us a huge favor lol
After seeing how weak this salt gun is after watching reviews, I immediately took it back to Walmart still in the box and immediately ordered a Bug A Salt on Amazon which will be here in 2 days. 🤙🏾
If you're dealing with wasps and such that's going to be the better salt gun. I've mostly got flies and knats here and it knocks them out just fine but struggles on the wasps and can't take down all of the beetles we have at the porch during evenings.
I'm still thinking of modding this one for more punch.
@@MongooseJakeNerf I just wanted something for wasps and flies, every so often I find one in my apt and a fly swatter on a wasp can have repercussions if I miss lol.
@@lionelbutler6541 For wasps, this one isn't ideal. I tried to convey that in the review, as the only thing it does to them is either take off a wing a bit, or just make them mad like crazy.
Was that bug-a-salt thing really doing well enough to warrant cloning? I've been seeing the ads on TV for so long I figured they were still trying to dump their original stock of them.
I don't know if they are doing well, but it does work on flies and some spiders. Close shots are killers but far away shots stuns them long enough to kill them up close.
There are up to 3.0 now so I’m sure it’s doing well enough to warrant updating the design that many times.
They actually made a high powered CO2 revolver capable of killing hornets recently and had a hard time keeping them in stock when they first released them.
Yeah considering they're on version 3 they're constantly sold out and now they're making another model based on a CO2 air gun that's constantly sold out every time they get stuck and I'd say they're probably doing pretty well
Bug a salt was the first salt gun
I have one of these it’s so fun. Dropped so many roach , fly , ant and gnat body’s with that thing but I wanna buy a bug assault 3 for the stronger exoskeleton.
I think the Bug assaults would be great for wasps, which always seem to want to hang around my grill. Those are the only real place this Bug Hunter falls short.
Good choice they can kill way more bugs than the no killing bug hunter
Hmm, wonder if it'll work with black pepper, or chili powder.
100% will break your junk bug hunter
A double fire like with that style you are right I would buy one
Neat little blaster, though I wish it had a bit more power. I recently used mine against a brown recluse and it did the job.
Can you mod it for wasps?
Hey mongoose Jake have you tried the air warriors star if you have did you have the issue of priming forcing the unfired darts out of the other barrels?
I've had a bunch of Stars and will actually be doing a updated review on the new DG set soon. No issues in the past models though, have to get to testing the current version and see if anything has changed.
@@MongooseJakeNerf Thanks I'm curious because mine keeps forcing the unfired darts out when primed. Funnily enough I only got the star because I wanted the target that came with it and the slingshot.
I saw this in walmart but I didn't get it because I like the Bug-A-Salt better. This gun looks like it would break after a few shots.
I'm still using mine around my grill and porch even to this day, so reliability has been great. It doesn't have the punch of the Bug-A-Salt though, that thing smacks bugs hard!
@@MongooseJakeNerf I've been through two bug a salts, one lawn & garden and one 3.0 and am on my third one. I wish they would just send you parts and not make you send the whole gun back. I usually just buy another and the broken ones are parts guns.
Interesting... so it looks like an evolution of the Bug-A-Salt. Same basic mechanics, even down to the feeding mechanism. Bigger salt "hopper" and two barrels instead of one.
What an absolutely bizarre market for Buzz Bee to dip into, especially considering their name, haha.
I *really* want to make this fire something like Elites/Halfs because that shell is ridiculously neat. Pulling out the salt hopper and using that as a loading port would be just amazing.
it's a BuzzBee take on the Bug-A-Sult. that is cool my dude
Yeah, I made sure to ask if they had any interactions with Bug-A-Salt, and Buzz Bee confirmed that this is a all new design made by them. It's also about half the cost, so that's awesome.
@@MongooseJakeNerf indeed my friend, I think it's one cool looking thing
@@MongooseJakeNerf any plans to do a comparison between the two?
@@MongooseJakeNerf yeah the bug assault brand is pricey
Mine only fires 1 barrel
Be sure you're fully pulling the trigger back. It's a two-stage trigger, so only one barrel fires if you only pull back part of the way.
@@MongooseJakeNerf I fixed it it got salt stuck and wasn’t loading into the right barrel it was just shooting air out the right barrel
For 20 bucks I would say It rivals the 40 dollar other brand
I have both, the Bug Hunter at work and the Bug-A-Salt 3.0 at home. Bug-A-Salt is hands down better, as it's considerably more powerful. But Bug-A-Salt costs a lot more, and both are effective with flies at fly-swatter range. You can trust the Bug-A-Salt with wasps and yellow jackets, I wouldn't use this weaker salt shooter with them.
I bet adding in a stronger spring or placing something to compress the original spring down a bit more would probably increase its power.
The monorail resembles it
Let's see a mod of this salt blaster!
I'm guessing this one's less expensive it's significantly less powerful right off the bat then what it's copying
Half the price, seems like half the power, but true two stage trigger on a double barrel design. Good for flies, gnats, and mosquitoes, but struggles on wasps.
As for the copying part, it's about as much copying as any brand making dart blasters is copying another, just with salt as the ammo this time around.
I think I have a Bug Assalt 2.0, but it can kill wasps, you just have to hit ‘em more than once. Never got stung by a wasp using it though. I’m pretty sure that I’ve killed at least one paper wasp with it and two bald-faced hornets with it. Hornets are a bit tougher than wasps. Took like 6 or so shots to bring those down, and like 4 to bring down a wasp. I’m pretty sure that they never figured out exactly what was causing them pain or pissing them off.
That'd be the big difference in the Bug Assault and this Bug Hunter. I've not had a Bug Assault in a while but they seemed in the past to have a solid hit, while this is a bit softer shooting. This works great on flies, mosquitoes, gnats and other softer bugs, and seems to bother the wasps enough to make them leave, but doesn't have the punch to just nuke them on the spot. I've been using this a ton though, and it's proven extremely reliable and useful.
@@MongooseJakeNerf that’s fair. I do think the bug hunter looks pretty fun though
Edit: it kinda reminds me of the shotgun from an N64 game called Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. The shotgun in that game was a double barrel pump shotgun that fired both barrels at once lol
My 3.0 takes one shoot to kill them
Bullshit
Just appeared on my Walmart shelf. Time to tear it open!
Put a little air pressure
I like that it is double barreled.
And it works exactly like the Double Shot or Double Fire with the dual stage trigger. Already passed on my suggestion that Buzz Bee makes a dart blaster based off of this shell.
That would be great.
I was having trouble with it at first just getting the hang of it I hate stink bugs
I think we all do, lol! Good hunting!
Honestly it sucks. The flies just do a summersalt and fly away 😂😭
Flies have been no problem for me with this, it's the red wasps that I seem to just annoy. Ants are also easy to get rid of with it.
So, best thing I can guess is that you must be firing from a long way away, as my Bug Hunter doesn't suck at all, just is simply better with getting rid of certain pests than others.
@@MongooseJakeNerf hopefully someone comes out with a spring upgrade. That would sick !
Yeah this is trash
Great review!
Thanks!
Found mine at a thrift, store today,,,6 bucks!
Nice find!
Oooooooooooh i want it i want it i want it lol
Just keep an eye on your local Walmart, or the link in the description, they're having some supply issues, but should be in stock soon-ish.
@@MongooseJakeNerf oh okay, i know blaster tend to get here on the east cost a month late at times
Noooooo they are trash broken first day only 20 minutes of having it