The Executioner Pro Fly Killer Mosquito Swatter Racket Wasp Bug Zapper Indoor Outdoor Over 55cm Long

This thing is the best . I upgraded the c cells to slightly larger TIF batteries from a tif combustible leak detector so instead of 1.5 volts they are 2. 2 volt cells and it blows bugs apart . Fries them instantly .

I truly beleve this is the best bug zapper made its a single plane grid that works the best out of all the zappers I have used to date. I have used this product for around 12 years and have left it outside, not in the rain but on the porch and finally broke it by leaving it in the rain for a couple of weeks thus the reason to buy the new one I have made the mistake of using other zappers with the multi layered sheets of grids and have seen bugs land on them when energized and fly off. Its a really great tool to have I highly recommend this swatter racket happy zapping!

I bought this device because a co-worker of mine recommended it. He had the regular version and I had to one up him. The item came right on time as always, when I buy through Prime. I was hesitant on this because i was not sure how strong the wires would be. The picture does not do it justice. The wires are more like aluminum bars about the thickness of a 8 gauge nail and are pretty strong. I have applied pressure with my hands to verify its well made and wont break. The racket end is about the size of a badminton set and the handle is the size of a tennis racket. It houses 2 C batteries. The test is how well it shocks. My first attempt sold me on it. I found a large carpenter ant and threw it onto the bars. The second it touched, electricity sparked (made a loud pop) and the ant exploded and landed about 4 feet away. It was enough that my kids didn't want to be anywhere near it or attempt to use it. I next used it on a small moth flying in my house. This did not spark, I'm assuming do to the size and little to no body mass, but i didn't release the button right away and the moth turned red and smoldered.You could see the burn going through it. I have been waiting for a large gathering of bugs outside my house in a swarm to take a swing or two at. The issue is getting use to swinging it at bugs. Fly's are pretty fast and can be hard to hit. In the end this thing is in no way a toy and does its job well. Update I have a gazebo I am building and am currently putting in the screening. Flies are coming in like crazy. I decided to get this out because, my sugar gliders, eat flies and I figured I can score them an easy meal. I have been using it and for small insects, its pretty lethal. Some flies that land on it die, and if you let off some juice, you can see their wings move from the nerves. Pretty morbid, I know. Anyways, this makes a pretty loud crack when the bugs touch it, but I'm finding larger bugs (and some smaller) are not killed by this. I hit a fly 4 times in the air, each time the fly created a spark, but did not go down. Now i don't know if these are local flies, or ones from Krypton, but many larger insects can take the shock. Most smaller ones die. Larger ones it's a toss up between death, wounded to the point they can't fly or laughing it off. I have even had a few horse flies come in. If you have never seen a horse fly, count yourself lucky. They are about the size of Mothra from the old Godzilla movies. The few that I've had, have gone down but not died. I usually just whack them and put them out of their misery before being eaten (by my gliders of course). I originally said this is not a toy, but I am finding it REALLY FUN to use.

I left some screenless windows open for a few hours while I was away to let in some fresh air. To my horror I also let in about 200 flies. I put up a bunch of fly paper and caught about 50 that way. The rest were dispatched with the Executioner Pro over a period of about 3 days. Thank god I had this thing. As everyone who's tried it knows, it's is very satisfying to kill flies this way. I prefer this to the shielded designs. What I don't like is that the button forces me to hold it too far back and it's too heavy. I have to use it two handed to accelerate fast enough to hit flies mid-air, which limits my reach. Most of my kills are by catching the fly against a surface and striking the surface. If I approach slowly and straight on, flies don't know what to do or where to go. I accelerate the last six to eight inches striking whatever surface they where perched on. This works against walls, ceilings, tables, fabrics. If you can finesse it, you can do this with low enough force to not damage anything and so far the Executioner Pro is holding up to the stress (over 150 confirmed kills). This begs the question though, why not just use a fly swatter? I prefer this because I'm able to strike with less force from a closer distance and have a much better kill rate with this thing. And the electrocution is specifically satisfying. An improved version of this device would have a much shorter handle and be much lighter weight so it can be accelerated and maneuvered faster. You think the reach of the long handle and the large racket head are going to help you, but it all adds mass and from where you have to grip it to reach the button, you have a mechanical disadvantage. You can get fast enough if you have room to accelerate, but it takes space. This thing is basically like a heavy tennis racket. Think about it. Do you actually have room to swing a tennis racket hard in your house? Maybe my house is too cluttered, but I find it very difficult to use it effectively as it was intended, for mid-air strikes. And I have pretty decent reflexes. For perspective, I can snatch larger house flies out of the air with my bare hands.

Packs a punch with a satisfying POP! and definitely works more efficiently than the zappers with the safety grid. It’s perfect for mini pests but seems to only stun flies so you may need to squish them when they’re down before they regain their senses.

The zapp that comes from this baby almost rivals electric plug in zappers. I love it.

I have had lesser versions, which were my "gateway" instruments of Death. They were effective and more affordable. But over time , I discovered I needed more. This is a proper tool for the Professional Executioner. The frame is larger and more durable. The batteries (2-C size) provide louder Pops, brighter Sparks and more Kills than the run of the mill double A units. There is only one push button switch (real men don't need "safety" switches), which makes it easier to use. The proper use, at least indoors, is not to run around wildly swinging a badminton size racquet. You wait for the fly to land, then starting 2' away, you slowly bring the instrument of destruction closer and closer. I don't know why, but it's like the flys can't see the wires, so they don't make a run for it until they are too close to usually escape. POW! The first blast usually wings them, and they are stunned enough you might leave them for dead. But, as the executioners Manual says, once is not usually enough once you get to fly size. If you have a conscience, smash their apparently inanimate body with a paper towel and throw them away. If, however, you have crossed the line to a ruthless insect executioner, who seeks revenge for the millions of humans who have been killed over the millennia by disease spread by these godless, cold blooded, exoskeleton scourges of humanity, you will carefully pick up their little bodies, drop them on top of the executioner where gravity will pin them to the wires and when they start to twitch, hit the switch. I call this the "Dance of Death". They will Snap Crackle and Pop! Sparks will fly! The air will reek of vaporized insect guts! It's good to be at the top of the food chain again.

Well, this thing worked well until after it was out of warranty. It made it about 15 months... I live near the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida, and have mangroves nearby, so 2 problems we deal with are mosquitoes and gnats. This thing works very well on both of those pests. On normal houseflies, it's about an 80% kill rate. Larger critters like the mud dauber wasps, etc., that infest the area are usually just stunned. But at least it gives you time to stomp them, or whatever. When the thing ultimately broke a couple of days ago (it has been working less than optimally for a while), I disassembled it (I'm a retired electronics engineer) to peek at the inside. What was physically broken was a tiny plastic tab that holds the back/bottom of the actuating switch from moving away from the pushbutton. This little plastic widget was broken--it is very small (less than an 1/8" in diameter) and it takes the full pressure of the button being pushed each time the unit is used. I found a suitable sized machine screw and epoxied it to take the place of the little plastic tab, which worked. However, the high voltage generator circuit seems to have failed, as well. I never bothered testing the unit before it failed, so I have no idea how much voltage it is supposed to generate, but now after my tinkering, It seems to be putting out about 515 volts, DC, on the wires in the grids. It still kills mosquitoes, but the satisfying 'CRACK!' is gone, so my guess is that the high voltage generator is probably a bit sick after so much use. Leaky capacitor, whatever. With all of that said, I'm going to buy another one simply because it does work well on the majority of the critters that annoy me around here. Just a couple of tips: get a real dpst pushbutton switch as a replacement for that jury rig spst switch with the add-on contacts. Anchor the switch better. That little post is bound to fail before the rest of the unit, and that means that the 20 bucks you charge is basically for that one failure-prone component. ************** Update ************** Well, this second unit lasted about the same amount of time. It failed with exactly the same problem as the first one. The electronic engineering is very good until they get to the operator's switch. At that point, it really and truly begins to draw a laboratory grade vacuum. They use a truly weird little flat piece of tin, which has a wire soldered to it, and that, is haphazardly mounted to what has to be the cheapest switch manufactured in the world. (A square hole punched to accommodate the square switch actuator.) When you push the button on the side you effectively close a dual pole single throw, spring loaded switch. The catch is that this switch is not attached to anything mechanically. So each time you push the button on the outside, you're pushing the whole switch...which would be okay if the switch was mounted in a way that kept the switch locked in position. BUT... there is nothing but a tiny plastic post that goes up between the electrical poles on the switch and after some number of pushes, it breaks. The pushing the switch does absolutely nothing. The high voltage supply doesn't get activated, and the switch just floats around. So I'm gonna order another one, because it does work... but I'm also going to try and come up with a small dpst switch from a reputable switch company and dremel tool the old mounting junk out of the way and put in a good switch. Bottom line: It works... but it has a lifespan, and that lifespan is measured by how often you use the thing. Each press of the actuator is a little bit of life gone. 2nd Update today... as I got ready to buy another one of these, I noted that the price has almost doubled to $53.00. This is not worth $53.00. Not during this lifetime. It was a stretch at $29.00... There is, perhaps, 3 bucks worth of electronic components on one super-cheap circuit board, and maybe 2 or 3 bucks worth of plastic bits and pieces. If the switch had been completely reworked, and a good 'Micro' or 'Switchcraft' switch installed, it might be worth it, but... no. Just no. Not for something I know is going to fail. I'll try one of the other brands and see how that goes.