bastage. :af: I have this one squirrel that's been around 2 years. He can get in any squirrel proof feeder ever invented. Cockey as they come and struts around like he's King Tut.
Yesterday he turned the suet feeder upside down and carried off the suet cake. Sooz i wired it shut.
Today he comes, early, chews the cage off and i catch him running across the street with the whole shooting match. :af: By the time i get out there he and the feeder are gone, the feeder for ever, but not his wise little tail.

His A-- is grass. :hihi:

some aren't destructive...

others seem to live for it...

gotta shoot those

HMMM, time to make a nice noose of braid, make sure it's attached your beefiest pluggin rod, put the little beasts favorite treat in it... hide and when the little thief shows his bushy tail... set the hook!... they go absolutly nuts when encased in a snare.....

I had one stealing eggplants a few years ago, never had a problen until that one, I set up the snare and nailed his hairy little carcass,, he did escape after totaly spazing out.. he never stole another eggplant!

Birds are impervious to capsasin (hot peppers). Squirrels are not. Lace all your bird food with hot chili peppers and the squirrels won't bother with it.;)

buy a pellet rifle.
they have these new pellets, depending on the gun you buy, they can go supersonic. they go directly through squirrels.
good luck

get the snagging rod ,u can practice so your arm won't stiffen up over this winter:bl: :bl:

Finished hooks with squirrel tails :kewl:

I wouldnt mess with it . here you have a tree rat that can think on his hind legs . I would feed him and eat the birds myself

Drown the mf-er ;)

Take a 5 gallon bucket, half fill it with water, then smear some peanut butter around the inside above the water line. Build the little bastage a ramp by placing a piece of wood against the bucket. Hopefully he'll perch on the rim of the bucket to try to get at the peanut butter, and fall in. Once his tail gets soaked, he's dead meat ;)

Drown the mf-er ;)

Take a 5 gallon bucket, half fill it with water, then smear some peanut butter around the inside above the water line. Build the little bastage a ramp by placing a piece of wood against the bucket. Hopefully he'll perch on the rim of the bucket to try to get at the peanut butter, and fall in. Once his tail gets soaked, he's dead meat ;)
wow a lot of thought in this a lot of time on your hands :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: :laugha: is that like salt on a birds tail ????

I bet that'd be a good fight on a 3 weight flyrod :D


LMAO Scott. :btu:

I was thinking about using the old inverted box trap held up by a stick and a string. Run the string to the kitchen window, and when he goes under to eat, chazam i got his sorry arse. :)
Killed a bird that way once when i was a kid, the box fell on his head.
Felt guilty for days. :hee:

They are very suceptible to a pellet fired from a pump pellet gun. I am in the squirrel hunting hall of fame. Just ask my wife. She demanded I stop shooting the little rat bast....! Have-a-hearts work well too. I trapped a ton of them and removed them to another part of town across the river, so unless they walked all the way back on a road I know they sure as hell didn't swim the river. If you shoot them in the hip area you may find to be humane another shot to the head is necassry. It sounds like your mad enough to shoot em twice anyhow.

I have the pelt of one that destroyed two of my bird feeders - got out of the shower one day and saw that he was gnawing another one. Got the bow out opened the window and took him out. Skinned him out and used it for fly tying. Wish I could have shot that well at deer.

The bucket trick is a very effective way to remove pesky chipmunks as well - I have heard you float sunflower seeds on the water and they lean over to get them and they are all done.

Get a hanging feeder(s).
2 feet 80# Ande mono.
6 years I have never seen a squirrel even attempt to get at it.
They are in the attic.
But not the feeder.

Does the bucket trick work for groundhogs?

out the door the dingo goes to tree the bastage....

then i take the walkin tall stick
(similar to an austalian throwing stick)

and start throwing it up into the tree ...it's incredibly accurate

or i am.... then the squirell has to leap to safety a forty foot to the

ground jump and a huge thud when it slams the ground (ouchies)

with the dingo right on it's heals... several times i've done this

as fair warning... if this and the hav-a-heart trap fails i just blastem

with one shot with the 20 guage....and that sums it up.

Cayenne pepper. Bird's aren't bothered by it, squirrels provide great entertainment.

18934

I bought one of these this past fall and so far so good...around $80.00. If that fails, a Sheridan air rifle will make quick work of him...not that I know from experience or anything :rocketem:

Ya BN, that feeder worked for years til this smart arse showed up. He puts both hind feet on the pole, snakes around with one leg under the closer bar, which prevents it from closing, and one on top sooz he can reach in with his head and get the seed.

I'd shoot him in a minute, cept i got this nosey neighbor who would turn me in. Friend of mine got caught using his 22 and had to go to court. Cost him $1000 fine, but worse they confiscated all his guns, and as a hunter he had 6. :(

I'll try the have a hart with some peanut butter, spray his tail pink and take him 5 miles away and see if he comes back. :D

My Husky is hell on squirrels. Thinks they are great toys cause after you are done playing with them, you get to eat them. For a few plugs, I might rent her out to you :D

Jigman

She would be right at home with the weather here today, Jigster. :hihi:

get a rubberband gun if u can get withing 10-15 feet of it..... other wise get a airsoft gun or something

pellet gun (1000 fps min. ) -- aim for the head---don't ruin the meat -- tastes like chicken

Cabela sell air guns that rival firearms. Shoot through an open and the nosey neighbors won't know a thing, unless a badly wounded one decided to climb their screen and bleed out. Don't ask how I know this... Squirrels are quite tasty actually, hunted them in my youth for food. Looong time ago and very far away-'nother life altogether.

Cabela sell air guns that rival firearms. Shoot through an open and the nosey neighbors won't know a thing, unless a badly wounded one decided to climb their screen and bleed out. Don't ask how I know this... Squirrels are quite tasty actually, hunted them in my youth for food. Looong time ago and very far away-'nother life altogether.

Did you say they were tasty or pasty? I stopped hunting them years ago because they look and taste like rat [ of course I've never had rat so that's only a guess]. If you have a good receipe I'd love to see it.

Cabela sell air guns that rival firearms. Shoot through an open and the nosey neighbors won't know a thing, unless a badly wounded one decided to climb their screen and bleed out. Don't ask how I know this... Squirrels are quite tasty actually, hunted them in my youth for food. Looong time ago and very far away-'nother life altogether.

So the Cabelas air rifles are that good?
I went the cheaper route.
Trumark wrist rocket & 5 pounds of 1/4" shot.
(Brought back fond memories of my juvenile delinquency.)
Not squirrels but a pair of fat groundhogs in my yard.
It's amazing how fast they can move when they hear the screen go up.

http://entimg.msn.com/i/BillMurray/Caddyshack_300x298.jpg

we had a gopher problem ok....so one day i dig out a tunnel

i'm like bill murry i worked at a golf course and got paid to do it.

but i burried a grip trap...and was checking it out because it was tripped...

so i'm thinkin... cool i got one...;) ya bastages...
i go and kneel down to empty the trap grabbing it out
of the main tunnel.... and son of BEOTCH it wasn't
a gopher i caught but a three foot pissed off snake...
which recoiled and yanked that trap back out of my hands
so freakin fast it scared the crap out of me....
because it coulda been
a rattler (rattlesnake)
i've had many many adventures with those! :uhuh:
but luckily it was a gopher snake instead.

but anyways.... talk about fast...them gophers could
duck a 22 long rifle bullet if you aimed for their head
which would pop up just like at the shooting gallery.
so i had to skip the damned bullet off the dirt just in front
of the whole to gettem
...and i'd still just catch them in the head

I would love to fix my gopher/groundhog problem this way.
A little bit of overkill, but it will definitely work......
http://www.snipercountrypx.com/p-3334-barrett-firearms-model-99a1-kit-dark-earth.aspx

(Take care of all of the neighbors that I don't like within a mile and a half while I'm at it.)

doh..........

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/billlandSquirell.jpg

A good quality airrifle with a decent scope will fix the problem every time.

Or, only put out safflower.

Most furry creatures won't touch it, but the cardinals and many other birds love it. Yes, this may limit the species you attract...but for me it's worth the tradeoffs.

-spence

Birds are impervious to capsasin (hot peppers). Squirrels are not. Lace all your bird food with hot chili peppers and the squirrels won't bother with it.;)

I've done this, its worth the price of admission:hihi:

i have the grey squirells totally under control

but the flying squirells are a big pain in my ass.

this morning @ 4:30 am i heard one ka-blam land on

the outside window screen and then climb it...more landings too

later, i heard them inside in the attic or in the friggan walls :wall:

so now it's .... war..... they are the insurgents... they
are surging into my house.... :devil:

BW - fire power is out of the question, $1,000 fine and confiscation of all weapons if caught. :(

Spence-no nuts around this year, they are eating the safflower to. :smash:

PNG- i'm gonna try it too. :hihi:

Rav- catch em' up. :D

These are two that hang around my house,
someday I'm gonna get em:

SPAWN and

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/parishht/spawn.jpg


PSYCHO

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/parishht/psycho.jpg

I am on a mission...good tips here...there is one (at least) brazen little furry bastage that has chewed up a bunch of cedar shingles near the vent at the peak trying to get in the house....pisses me off cuz now I'll have to replace the shingles after the war..and the new ones will never match....
all squirrels must die :skulz::skulz::skulz:

BW - fire power is out of the question, $1,000 fine and confiscation of all weapons if caught. :(

Spence-no nuts around this year, they are eating the safflower to. :smash:

PNG- i'm gonna try it too. :hihi:

Rav- catch em' up. :D

you have to shoot them from inside the house with the pellet rifle
with the window wide open so the sound is somewhat muffled

Pepper works good and so does a silent pellet gun just stuck out the crack in the window. I think this is him.

Get them trees cut back from the house Matt!

of a hava-heart trap .... unless you do this
:think:
but if you place it next to a wall; and a stone on top
(trip levers protected)

with JUST one door lever set into the trip lever
instead of both of them so one door is down, locked, closed

and you put a piece of toasted bread smeared with
peanut butter topped with bird seed on the flloor
in between the closed rear door and the trip platform
you catch them every time...guaranteed :smokin:

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&'s secret livelining techniques revealed :hihi:

About 4 years ago i planted 3900 bulbs and had every squirrel in the world in our yard. neighbors and retired city cops all around me so i couldn't use the 12 gauge. I found using a have a heart trap and then leaving them in the trap24hrs would bring coyotes and they would move the trap trying to get the squirrel. those suckers never came back. 8 squirrels and 2 raccoons later and 200 bulbs replanted in the neighbors yards and back to normal

Drown the mf-er ;)

Take a 5 gallon bucket, half fill it with water, then smear some peanut butter around the inside above the water line. Build the little bastage a ramp by placing a piece of wood against the bucket. Hopefully he'll perch on the rim of the bucket to try to get at the peanut butter, and fall in. Once his tail gets soaked, he's dead meat ;)


LOL That is similar to what we did to catch mice up at the camp in Maine. But instead of smearing the peanut butter on the inside of the bucket we used a can strung length wise on a piece of coat hanger. We would smear the peanut butter all over the can (lightly) and wait. A couple of times a night you'd hear a mouse who went swimming when he jumped from the ramp to the can in the middle of the bucket. Once it hit the can it would spin and drop the mouse to its watery grave :hee:

Get them trees cut back from the house Matt!

he is coming on to house via wires not trees .....nothing short of death or serious relocation is stopping this rodent from eating my shingles....

Not so smart :hihi:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6CFaUlPHSY4

that my friend is my all time favorite thing i have ever ever ever seen 'round these parts :jump:

Not so smart :hihi:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6CFaUlPHSY4

that is f-in priceless..:claps::rotfl::btu::laughs::hf1:

pharting squirrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8knlKqClc&feature=related

these are pissah.....:laugha::laugha:

he is coming on to house via wires not trees .....nothing short of death or serious relocation is stopping this rodent from eating my shingles....

it was because the squirell had babies already in the house.

it was because the squirell had babies already in the house.

no action today...and no sign of entry yet....traps set...waiting :read:

use the hav-a hart catchum then drop it in a Trash can full of Water. GLUB-GLUB!!

use the hav-a hart catchum then drop it in a Trash can full of Water. GLUB-GLUB!!

:hs:

Shoot it.Skin it.Cook it.Eat it.Simple.

"Can't grill it till ya kill it."

perfect gun for squirrels: the barrett 50 cal ;)

I am told they taste like chicken!

Noticing an increase in the squirrel population in my yard today Slingah????? Coincidence???:laughs:

Drown the mf-er ;)

Take a 5 gallon bucket, half fill it with water, then smear some peanut butter around the inside above the water line. Build the little bastage a ramp by placing a piece of wood against the bucket. Hopefully he'll perch on the rim of the bucket to try to get at the peanut butter, and fall in. Once his tail gets soaked, he's dead meat ;)

Mike I told my father about this and it works amazingly on chipmunks. As what he does for the squirrels he gets a raccoon trap and baits it with peanuts and catches them and leaves it on the hot pavement and they fry or dunks the trap in a barrel of water. He honestly has seen a squirrel in years. I think the squirrel tails hanging from the trap has something to do with that.:D:D

A friend of mine used to catch the basstirds in a trap..Then bring the trap near the back of car..Cover with tarp..Get a hose that fits around your tail pipe and put the other end under the tarp and start the car up..Within minutes the critter is asleep for ever..:bl:

Lost a set of patio cushions to a family of them last year, ripped them to shreds while we were away on vacation. Lost a grill cover to them this year. I see bloodshed in their future....

one thing i've learned as an outdoorsman , a farmer, and a studier of Nature, animals and their language.....is that scent is the all time biggy
and very useful to the common man... if he thinks about it. It's a shame to waste that lovely beer down the toilet when you can mark your territory. For example watching the trails into the lower barn in cat prints in the snow.... each time it snowed and catching the cat
red handed in there "one night " with my great dingo dog i have and scaring the crap out of it... it's still came back...again and again and again...........
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/Dingoonduty.jpg

until one night i decided i'd JUST :kewl: pee on the threshold of the barn just once
to see if i could claim the barn as "my territory"

and it worked like a charm :musc:

:kewl: pee on the threshold of the barn just once
to see if i could claim the barn as "my territory"

and it worked like a charm :musc:

Rav, I'm surprised you let us in on one of the Mountain Men's most guarded secrets .:D

Let me know if it works for the squirrels on your bird feeders. :hihi:

Rav, that is one beautiful Dingo. :btu:

i.m friggan out of here............. :bo:

yesterday,
... i saw this all black cat running down the middle of the road
as fast as it could to get as far away from my house in the shortest
amount of time possible... ( at that point i smiled to myself knowing ) *Star was making her "rounds" and territorial run (cat hunting)

this dog is wicked fast..... they are bred to herd cattle....without barking ( ever) so the cattle don't really know their location....all they feel is their hamstrings being nipped on occasion ''''enough so///to keep them constantly moving... ( ie successfully herded)

and that black cat had several encounters with my dog and learned
quickly......wow! that's one fast F' N dog... heh heh :rotf2:

JPI to make it perfectly clear... i come to S-B to share my secrets... those that you could best utilize that is...

others i will not speak of.... they are for the Wizard to Know and for the student to learn... they cannot be simply told ...and if i spoke of them S-B members would all sign a petition to send me to the Funny Farm,,, ah HA HA HA :grins:

but i have news for ya... i'm already there