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

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.

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.

This could very well be the very BEST, electric swatter on the market. HOWEVER, there is some competition! Enter in to the ring: Elucto. Elucto used to be offered on Amazon, but at the time of this writing, it is no longer available (but you'll likely find it on Ebay). I wrote a review for Elucto where I declared it the best, electric swatter on the market. Now comes the new challenger: The Executioner. I bought this one after reading reviews and watching YouTube videos and felt impressed by it's great performance and build quality, from what I could tell. Having used many electric swatters, I feel I'm a bit of an expert on these things. Straight off the bat, I can tell you that any swatter that uses single layer bars, no mesh and takes 2AA batteries (as opposed to charging) is automatically the best kind of electric swatter and the only one you want to go with. The Executioner seems to understand this, as well, with how it's described on it's product packaging. So, which one is the BEST of the BEST? Well, honestly, that's really up to you. If you can get both, I'd say get both. Both of them have their pros and cons with more pros and very little cons. So, let's just see how they stack up in comparison to each other: The Executioner: Pros: - More powerful - Better build quality - Easier button to depress - Humming noise let's you know it's on/working along with a light indicator - More comfortable in the hands/easier grip - Better name Minor cons: - Slightly smaller grill area - A little bit heavier - Bigger handle gets a bit in the way on big, flat surfaces - Slightly thicker plastic that surrounds the grill - No wrist strap - No batteries included (at least not mine) Elucto: Pros: - Slightly bigger grill area - Powerful enough - Very light weight - Smaller handle and thinner plastic around the grill allows for better killing of any size insects on big, flat surfaces - Wrist strap allows you to keep it on your wrist or hang it up anywhere with ease - Batteries included Minor cons: - A little less powerful - Build quality is less, but acceptable - No humming noise, but has a light indicator to let you know it's on/working - Handle not as comfortable or easier to grip - Button not as easy to depress, but easy enough - Weird name (but no worries, there are weirder ones out there for electric swatters) So, you can see why I like both and if a manufacturer could take the pros of both and get rid of the cons, you'd have the perfect electric swatter! As it stands, these 2 are the best and you really can't go wrong with either one. But having both on hand would allow you to use the best one depending on the situation. For example, if a fly is buzzing in the air you'll want The Executioner to zap them good in the air! If it's a fruit fly on a big, flat wall, however, you'll want to use the Elucto to give very little space for escape! Both will work in each area, but one will be a little better than the other in different situations. The Executioner is good for one zap kills pretty much every time. Elucto will need to fry bigger critters a couple of seconds longer to guarantee death (just hold a fly or whatever down a little longer). And with all of that said, if you can find The Executioner Pro, I believe you will have a slightly better competition against the Elucto. The regular Executioner is great, though.

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.

I recently got a new dog! It's a nice dog! But it poops in the yard and this creates these little floater flies that come over to the porch and fly around "gathering areas". I looked this up on Reddit and there were some posts on there about it. They dont come inside, they just float around near the porch. So... I bought this Executioner racket! This has become a major hobby of mine. Every time a let the dogs out, I just attack the flies! I mean this is one of my favorite things! I just love clearing out the deck with the racket and then when I'm done, the dogs are done making more flies! Handles is good. It would be better if the frame was made out of some type of hardened polymer. If you swing hard enough the handle could break. Now you shouldn't have to swing hard... but you do have to swing fast! Which makes it swinging hard? If you swing slow, the flies see you coming and get out of the way. Double A batteries - good choice! Overall great product and would buy again! Although I need another solution to these flies to ensure they stop coming back.

I HATE certain bugs--flies, fleas, mosquitoes, fireants, gnats, cockroaches. I'm sure there are others. I bought this thing because flies were getting into the house during that short 5-7 days in south Georgia that we go from "Wow, it's really pleasant outside; we can leave the door open between the screened porch and the den" to "Geez, it's so HOT! Close the door!" And the bugs increase as the muggy heat increases. I read other reviews about how the executioner was clearing tents of flies in Afghanistan and figured that this would be the perfect weapon if not overkill for south Georgia to get those nasty flies or mosquitoes that sneak in and then buzz bomb your head right about the time you are trying to go to sleep. I used Father's Day as the excuse for my purchase and it arrived within two days with Prime shipping. I put the two included batteries in and suffered the disapproval of my VERY environmentally conscious 25 year old son who looked it over and quietly said, "This thing is dangerous." Whatever. I walked into the kitchen and found a GIANT mosquito bobbing against the screen of the window over the sink. I held in the button on the handle--watched the red light come one, held the racket over the bug until it bounced back and KA-POW!!! He fell into the sink with a kind of "help me, help me" twitch like that manbug in the movie The Fly. Cool. I disposed of him with an old napkin. Just PURCHASING it seemed to make the house flies disappear. Before buying I read lots of reviews for similar products. I considered the super Executioner until reading a review that said that this regular Executioner was not only cheaper but also was not unwieldy the way the bigger one could be. This racket has nice balance, is sturdy so far (but I haven't dropped it or anything) and it isn't hard to hold the button in while working with it. It's innocuous looking too. It looks like a child's toy, but it is NOT. I did accidentally hit my finger tip with it once and didn't care for the feeling--so DON'T do that. Best used by a responsible adult. The reason I REALLY like this thing is because of its proven efficiency in getting rid of the little produce gnats that seem to spring up around my compost collection bucket next to the kitchen sink. I can take the lid off, hold the racket over the bucket, give it a shake, and POW POW POW POW POW POW---they just seem to vanish--sometimes creating a very slight burnt smell that also vanishes quickly. I haven't tried it on a large insect, but it works killing the little ones. I don't feel bad about it either.

This electric flyswatter is awesome!! We are having a problem with pantry moths in our house and you should see what this does to those suckers. There's a bright flash when it hits them and they get barbecued. I've managed to get 6 or 7 of them and it's actually pretty fun (sorry if you're a bug lover).

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.