intrepid_camper wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 3:34pm:

With deer flies you can hold both hands up over your head (as tho appealing to God)...99% of the time they will land on your hands (thinking they are ears ??) and are then easy to grab or slap.

I can endorse this method wholeheartedly as I discovered it on my own just three days ago. "Land on my hand ... I wanna kill you." And they do it!

There is no satisfying crunch and they are smaller and more pliable than they look so you gotta be sure to mush 'em good.

Around and around and around. I killed like twenty one late afternoon all at one campsite.