smart A-- little - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

justplugit · 01-19-2007, 01:48 PM

bastage.

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.

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.

Raven · 01-19-2007, 01:59 PM

some aren't destructive...

others seem to live for it...

gotta shoot those

Rockfish9 · 01-19-2007, 02:11 PM

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!

BigBo · 01-19-2007, 02:17 PM

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.

PNG · 02-11-2007, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BigBo

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

Raven · 02-12-2007, 09:00 AM

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

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

Christian · 01-19-2007, 02:20 PM

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

vanstaal · 01-19-2007, 02:46 PM

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

Redsoxticket · 01-19-2007, 02:53 PM

Finished hooks with squirrel tails

Swimmer · 01-19-2007, 07:14 PM

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.

labrax · 01-19-2007, 08:00 PM

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.

sok · 01-19-2007, 10:10 PM

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?

Raven · 01-20-2007, 08:31 AM

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.

baldwin · 01-20-2007, 09:21 AM

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

Jigman · 01-20-2007, 12:50 PM

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

Jigman

justplugit · 01-20-2007, 06:28 PM

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

PoPin Plug · 01-26-2007, 02:45 PM

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

InTheHole · 01-26-2007, 06:51 PM

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

Backbeach Jake · 01-26-2007, 08:56 PM

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.

thortum · 02-01-2007, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

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.

sok · 02-02-2007, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

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.

MrHunters · 02-02-2007, 11:23 PM

Raven · 02-02-2007, 11:44 PM

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!

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

sok · 02-03-2007, 12:45 AM

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-333...ark-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.)

Raven · 02-11-2007, 10:50 AM

doh..........

basswipe · 02-11-2007, 11:14 AM

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

Slingah · 01-12-2008, 08:23 AM

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

ProfessorM · 01-12-2008, 10:35 AM

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

BigFish · 01-12-2008, 03:36 PM

Get them trees cut back from the house Matt!

Raven · 01-12-2008, 03:49 PM

of a hava-heart trap .... unless you do this

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