I had always heard, that if you shoot a hornet nest with a shotgun, the hornet’s will follow the smoke right back to the source, and fk you up.
A few years ago, I noticed a hornet nest hanging about 50 yards away from the side of the road that I live on.
I figured it would be a perfect opportunity to test out the theory.
I drove down to where the hornet nest was, stuck my shotgun out the window, fired a round into the nest, and rolled my window up just as fast as I could.
To my surprise, whoever told that story wasn’t kidding.
I had barely gotten the window rolled up when hornets started bouncing off of it.
I watched them try to sting the outside of the window for a few minutes, then drove away. There was quite a bit of venom running down the outside of the window by the time I left.
I prefer to do my hornet/yellow jacket killing after dark, when I know they are all home.