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TXfishnhntr Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 2:36 PM EST
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Does this look like beetle damage? I opend up this 5 Vegas Serie 'A' Anomonly the other night and upon removing the cedar sleeve was confronted with this sight. Going back I looked at the cellophane and it had holes where it was folded on the foot. I looked around in the tuperdor for any signs as well as examined the other cigars in there and couldn't find other evidence of beetles. If this is beetle damage, should I be concerned about the others and put them in the freezer? Or does it sound like it may have come from the manufacture that way and is no longer an issue?
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dr.smac Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 6:49 PM EST
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Hard to tell from picture, but how deep are those marks?
Did you look at the inside of the cedar sleeve for the reverse of those marks?
wheelrite Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 6:56 PM EST
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No..

beetles make holes,,

you just skinned that smoke a bit...
fishinguitarman Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 6:58 PM EST
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Beetle make little round pinholes
05busa Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 6:59 PM EST
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HeHe....maybe a japanese beetle
muhren Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 7:02 PM EST
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Possibly...Rough shipping/storage, perhaps higher humidity which would cause splitting at the foot, but not beetles.

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05busa Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 7:08 PM EST
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they crackle when u smoke them
Mojorisin Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 8:42 PM EST
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Like the others ...beetle makes a round hole as far as I have seen...
m j toal Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 8:58 PM EST
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Look like roach damage.


Don't kcuf with beetles noob !
05busa Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:01 PM EST
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LMBAO
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:31 PM EST
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I've had beetles eat right up the capa on a cigar before, just like that. If it hatched in that cigar, it probably emerged out the foot, rather than boring it's way out, then turned and ate the capa and in parts, the capote - notice the different depths and how it looks to be ground, or rather gnawed, out?

Plus you said there were holes in the cello.

If that's shipping damage, where are the flakes of tobacco that cracked off the wrapper? Not to mention, wrappers don't crumble in nice rounded edge patterns like that. Tends to be jagged, and there wouldn't be the divots in the capote.

I'd say it's pretty good odds that you are, in fact, looking at beetle damage so I'd freeze everything in that tupperdor just to be safe.
05busa Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:33 PM EST
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Smoke da beetles mane
dubleuhb Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:41 PM EST
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Dang, now the beatles are gettin picky and only eating the wrapper. Elitest beatles, whats next ?
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:47 PM EST
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dubleuhb wrote:
Dang, now the beatles are gettin picky and only eating the wrapper. Elitest beatles, whats next ?



Don't worry, if they have any tastes whatsoever, your stash of Gurkhas will be safe.
dubleuhb Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 9:53 PM EST
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Well I can honestly say I have no Gurkhas, not for me. Just stay away from the PI's, thats all.
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 10:01 PM EST
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dubleuhb wrote:
Well I can honestly say I have no Gurkhas, not for me. Just stay away from the PI's, thats all.


LOL.

On a serious note, I don't think PI freezes their cigars. I recall reading an interview with Rolando Reyes Sr a number of years ago where he stated that he didn't freeze his cigars. Of course that was then, and things may have changed since, I don't believe that he is running the company anymore, but it's his son now, so who knows. Or the vendor might freeze too BTW.
tj2001cobra Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Sep 6 2011, 11:42 PM EST
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TXfishnhntr wrote:
Does this look like beetle damage? I opend up this 5 Vegas Serie 'A' Anomonly the other night and upon removing the cedar sleeve was confronted with this sight. Going back I looked at the cellophane and it had holes where it was folded on the foot. I looked around in the tuperdor for any signs as well as examined the other cigars in there and couldn't find other evidence of beetles. If this is beetle damage, should I be concerned about the others and put them in the freezer? Or does it sound like it may have come from the manufacture that way and is no longer an issue?


Looks like a picture of a female, sitting on her butt with her knee hiked up. She is facing down.

LOL

I agree, that looks like beetle damage.
nickatnite Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 1:57 AM EST
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tj2001cobra wrote:
Looks like a picture of a female, sitting on her butt with her knee hiked up. She is facing down.

LOL

I agree, that looks like beetle damage.



Yeah, I see that too.lol
TXfishnhntr Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 4:24 AM EST
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Thanks for all the replys and suggestions. I'll post an additional photo tonight after work showing a different view.
zitotczito Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 4:45 AM EST
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Interesting, never had a beetle problem and don't want one know on cedar.
watchurai Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 6:48 AM EST
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Not an expert, never seen beetle damage other than the lil holes they bore...but that looked gnawed/eaten to me. My .02

Freeze evathang close to that ceegar, if you can.
IUROX Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 10:01 AM EST
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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! BEETLE PARANOIA!
JuyceMan Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Sep 7 2011, 12:03 PM EST
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Metal damage, brain damage. Remember the night rider!



It looks like beetle damage. Call and complain. Raise holy H E Double Hockey Sticks!
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