Fly swatters

[Ouachita]

I haven’t been able to find a good one in a long while. These things fall apart, even when the wife is using them on the grandkids arse.

 

[M.Magis]

I got sick of the same thing, so I found these on Amazon. Leather head and heavy twisted wire handles. I'm not gonna say they're indestructible just yet, but after nearly two years they still look like new. No bending, no matter how hard I swat. And the leather is super thick, I can't imagine them ever breaking.

 

[kenny thomas]

Good thing my parents didn't have any of them.

 

[M.Magis]

Forgot to mention the price, they were $9 for two. It was a different "brand" but they're the exact same thing except a different name pressed in the leather.

 

[Ouachita]

Forgot to mention the price, they were $9 for two. It was a different "brand" but they're the exact same thing except a different name pressed in the leather.

I will definately have my darlin order some. I never imagined being old enough to sit on the porch and swat flies with her (and enjoy it) but here I am. Cheaper than a mistress

 

[Ouachita]

I keep this on my desk at work. Taking it home for backup until the swatters arrive.

 

[M.Magis]

I keep this on my desk at work. Taking it home for backup until the swatters arrive.
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Those things making killing flies more tolerable than I ever thought possible.

 

[Mrcopier]

I keep this on my desk at work. Taking it home for backup until the swatters arrive.
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Ya those can be fun. Especially if you hit them on the fly

 

[Ouachita]

Ya those can be fun. Especially if you hit them on the fly

The funny part is when my employees hear the pump action, and the inappropriate vocabulary.

 

[sstterry]

Good thing my parents didn't have any of them.

We had a Willow tree outside our back door, which was worse!

 

[SBMF 2015]

I made one that was so good I lost it in my divorce
I took a riding crop and widened the slapper part with gorilla tape. It was about 5x5” and indestructible

 

[greybeard]

Fly swatters used to be made with a stiff but flex outer part and galvanized window screen wire for the part ya hit the bug with.

(Willow limbs here too... for butt whoopins)

 

[sstterry]

Fly swatters used to be made with a stiff but flex outer part and galvanized window screen wire for the part ya hit the bug with.

(Willow limbs here too... for butt whoopins)

Did you have to go out and select your own? If I brought back one too small, I got a double whammy.

 

[Mrcopier]

Yep, bring back a brittle dead one and you had to get smacked with the dead one and then go get another for round 2

 

[greybeard]

Did you have to go out and select your own? If I brought back one too small, I got a double whammy.

Sometimes. Ya see them little short pants with skinny exposed legs?

They often had thin red horizontal stripes/whelps on em..


My father never did it until we were older and he used his belt, my mother never did but HER mother (my granny) was a small thin woman absolutely adroit with a switch on any and all her grandchildren, , whether it be a willow in East Texas, off an oak when she was staying with one of her other offspring in DFW, or off a young mesquite when staying out in West Texas.
"I'll get your good eye Boy!!"


We and all our cousins knew only one thing.

Granny was fixin to rain hell down upon one or more of us.
Running was pointless...we eventually had to come home sometime.

 

[sstterry]

Sometimes. Ya see them little short pants with skinny exposed legs? View attachment 69076

They often had thin red horizontal stripes/whelps on em..

Those damn things would wrap all the way around your legs like a bull whip!

 

[tater74]

Sometimes. Ya see them little short pants with skinny exposed legs? View attachment 69076

They often had thin red horizontal stripes/whelps on em..

Your family's Studebaker?