Must kill squirrels...

pop bottle with skinny stiff rod thru the middle. Attach rod across the middle of an open barrel. Fill barrel half with water. put bait on middle of pop bottle. Squirrel jumps on pop bottle, bottle rotates. Squirrel cant hold onto slippery plastic and falls in the drink.

Make sure rod is small enough
 
geologist said:
Smear peanut butter on the bottle.
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Then he'll stick ha,ha


I live in the country and have seen three mice in four summers because of my cats. Strictly outdoors (unless they are kittens and then they are allowed in every now and then for a bowl of milk so the dogs don't get at it)

Get a couple of adult toms and the squirrels will be gone. The cat will get his excercise and in short order the squirrels will re-locate.

Like to see a red squirrel and a tom go toe to toe. Will be loud and will be fast:D
 
lone-wolf said:
A somewhat long post for a simple problem:
I got a little problem with those small red squirrels making a home of our boat barn. The thing is we have two fishing boats in there(my father's and my uncle's) plus 300 lobster traps. And from what my father understands, squirrels will chew up the heads of the traps which would make life more difficult in the spring when we haul the traps to the wharf. So i'm just using a ~490fps pellet gun w/ iron sights to dispatch the offending squirrels, as i want to cause as little damage to the traps(i won't shoot towards the boats anyways)

The problem(besides my aiming) is catching the damn things out in the open is extremely hit and miss. If i miss my shot they got 300 traps to hide in that are stacked like 6 high and 3 deep.

So can someone help me improve my odds of catching them in the open? And what can I use to lure them out? FYI the longest shot i could take in there would be around 40ft, probably more like 20ft.

Also I'm 95% sure I shot one of them but when i went in the house to get a flash light and came back, he was nowheres to be found when i got back. I had to get a flashlight and also gloves cause he fell behind some stacked wood. So I'm wondering if the 490fps pellet gun isn't heavy hitting enough? My father has a .22 so maybe the cb longs would work better but how destructive would they be on the traps? Also i kinda doubt any retailers carry that kind of specialty ammo.

Live Traps are probably my best option but they cost a bit more then pellets, also less entertaining :50cal:

Oh yeah incase your wondering i'm using an old(heavy as hell it seems) Slavia 630
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Slavia 630 has shot more squirrels than any other pellet gun made. Trust me, I've shot that many. Try peanut butter in an open area that you can shoot at. They will keep returning to it regardless of any supressive fire. Give em hell!
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OK, I got it.
So, when the squirrel eats the peanut butter he short circuits the set up which will cause a small spark that lits the wooden block on fire which burns to dust causing the two electrodes to contact which will result in blowing up the battery and the sound will scare the squirrel away. Awesome! :D
 
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I have two cats(and a dog) actually. One, will catch anything he sees and regularly brings home half eaten squirrels, mice, ect. The other cat is his fat lazy ##### apparently. As she does nothing all day. I think he hasn't caught the squirrels yet cause they're on top of the traps and they can easy go in the spaces of the traps that the cat(he's like 15lbs - and not even fat) can't get into. We had a squirrel in the chicken barn before and i showed the cat and i've never seen that squirrel after he chased him around the barn and into the woods, THAT was entertaining. Anyways i'm hesitant to use poison or non-live traps because of the possibility of the cats getting into it. That rain barrel idea on the other hand sounds amusing and I MUST try it. It will be sweet pay back as the squirrels usually only show their face when i'm unarmed...

I'll also stick some PB out in the middle of the barn and see if they'll venture out... you know, just as a back up plan :50cal:

A little extra info... the Slavia 630 I'm using was given to my bro on christmas the year I was born. So 20 Years later and the gun is still working like new!
 
cdngunner said:
pop bottle with skinny stiff rod thru the middle. Attach rod across the middle of an open barrel. Fill barrel half with water. put bait on middle of pop bottle. Squirrel jumps on pop bottle, bottle rotates. Squirrel cant hold onto slippery plastic and falls in the drink.

Make sure rod is small enough
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i,ve used the same method years ago at the hunt camp,only i used a pop can instead of the bottle..
no matter what ,it worked like a charm..
BTW..if you use this method to get rid of pest..make sure you are around to scoop out the rodents now and then;)
the last time i used this method..i was not able to make it back up to camp for a few months...
talk about a smelly soup:eek:
 
Rat trap screwed to beams, walls, etc...vertically work well. You can also try cutting several poles about an inch or so in diamter and wire them in place between objects, ie., stacks of lobster pots, roof trusses, etc...somewhere where you know the squirrels are crossing over and/or frequent. Pick up a spool of fine snare wire and make a series of small snares, sufficently large enough to fit a squirrels head. Wire the snares to the pole in series, with dabs of peanut butter in the center of the series. The squirrels will run along the pole toward the peanut butter and snare themselves. They fall over and hang there, leaving a fresh snare in the series ready for the next tree rat looking for a free meal. I use this method all the time when I'm trapping. At times I've gotten as many as 8-9 squirrels from the one set. (A lot of guys don't bother with them, because the price is so low for squirrel pelts, a little over a dollar, however, it only takes a minute to skin 'em and I trapped enough squirrels last year to pay for a new 9mm alone!) :)
 
I've had this crazy dream for awhile of getting a squirrel stuffed and mounted in halves. You see, in my house, one of the walls separates the bedroom from the bathroom. The way I'd like to do it (or get it done): mount the head on the bedroom side, preferably with some ridicuously large shell case glued below it, say a 3 inch 12 guage slug, and the rear end mounted at exactly the same spot, on the bathroom side, preferably with it's tail up ... Just something to crack up the visitors ... :D
 
lone-wolf said:
I have two cats(and a dog) actually. One, will catch anything he sees and regularly brings home half eaten squirrels, mice, ect. The other cat is his fat lazy ##### apparently. As she does nothing all day. I think he hasn't caught the squirrels yet cause they're on top of the traps and they can easy go in the spaces of the traps that the cat(he's like 15lbs - and not even fat) can't get into.
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If you haven't already done so, I'd highly recommend you check your cats & dog for parasites! Squirrels are notorious for being lousy and absolutely full of creepy/crawlies that happily will jump ship to your cat or dog, who will then share them with you and your furniture/carpets, etc...! I deliberately keep the squirrel population low around my house to keep the cat from catching anymore of the little tree rats for this reason.
 
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