Adkpk
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Now we are being threatened by squirrels.
Squirrels
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OilHead
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Your not alone . I've been battlin those darn varments for years. Two years ago they decided to start knawin around the base section of the crown on the 80 + year silver maple that faces the house. They keep going back to the same place untill the bark is tan raw. It gets worse every time more keep coming they leave there scent around the area & you can see them there up in the tree out of there minds trying to make more to join the party. All I can recommend is to try and kill as many as possiable or you'll have more moving in. Got rid of all of them here for a time last summer - 3 months later there back.
Slvrmple72
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Neighbors house had them in the attic, an elderly lady lived there before he moved in and the squirrels had turned the place into their own personal hotel. He redid the vinyl soffit a few times, put up aluminum, and finally shot and killed 30 of them before they left. Tenacious little buggers!
OilHead
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Fall & winter is the best time of year to harvest them. Mepps Lures pays more for them because they are more bushy. Now get to work killing them. Think I'll set the trap tommorow have'nt done it in quite some time. Hi
Adkpk
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Moth balls will keep vermin from coming around. Cats, small dogs are a deterrent too.
juststumps
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sounds like a lot of work,, just to get some spinners "VS" just tossing them in the trash can or woods....
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juststumps
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try 22 shorts from inside the house , thru a window , one shot, one kill,, take a break..... close window , listen for sirens ,, if no sirens ,, repeat as needed .... discard varmit...
Ole Farmerbuck
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Open window? lol
chowdozer
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chowdozer
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Yeah, the neighbor called fish and wildlife on me. I got an education. Someone brought in Eastern greys to the PNW. (probably the same person the brought us possums) They eat the young of the native squirrels here. F&W said to shoot all the grey one's I want. So that's what I do.
It's against the law to shoot the lil brown native squirrels. You don't see them anymore anyway.
chowdozer
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Against the law here. Don't move your problem to someone else's neighborhood. They are considered a pest. Would you trap and relocate moles and rats?
STIHLSamantha
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i don't know how tall your tree is...but if you take some cayenne pepper and water, and spray the leaves or sprinkle some cayenne on the ground around the tree, the squirrels hate it, and birds love it....it will deter the squirrels from chewing on your leaves....my grams used to do this to keep them off her fruit trees...and it doesn't hurt the leaves! gives them a bit of a surprise...only thing is....you have to repeat that year after year....and not as fun as the cowboy method everyone else suggested!
pbtree
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Kill 'em and grill em!
Kogafortwo
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What is an RWS and where can I get one? My pump-up Daisy gets about 750 fps which usually doesn't get me a clean kill. I usually have to pump another couple of pellets into them before I toss them to the gators.
chowdozer
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750fps on a .177 should easily take care of a squirrel up to 75-80ft. I previously posted a link to Cabella's. If you get one, get a side or under lever. Don't get a break barrel.
OilHead
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Traped 2 today. A buddy af mine has a pellet rifle with a scope on it that he uses for turkey shooting. Near as I recall it requires a squba diving tank to charge it though .
Jumper
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Dad live traps them and relocates them to north of 407, so if they make it back across eight lanes they deserve to live! Me I'd drown the little rats in a garbage can of water while in the trap.Toronto is infested with the little varmints, they destroyed the neighbours' attic when their house was left vacant for two years. We also trap a lot of coons and skunks. Count last year was 58 sqwirls, 9 coons and three skunks, all in the middle of the city.
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OilHead
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I use to transport them across town up untill gas prices went up. Over 130 over a couple years. Also there were reports of the black ones biting little children in a park near where I had droped off some of them. I am currently using the garbage can method.
Mkarlson
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Why do you say no to the barrel break rifles just curious?
I have a gamo hunter 440 in .177 caliber. Bought it couple years ago and has been a nice pellet rifle. Rated at 1000 fps and I believe it make that kind of velocity even though I have never had it chronographed. I can take out most any squirrel out to 35 yards or so with a shot to the head. Of course a shot anywhere else on a squirrel and he will laugh at you. My 20 yard practice target I can sometimes place 3 shots so close its hard to find more then one hole in the paper so the accuracy is there with a break barrel. Been two over two years and thousands of shots and have had no problems. I sometimes wish I had tried the .22 caliber model I stuck with the .177 because ammo is readily available.
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