smart A-- little

[spence]

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

[PNG]

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]

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....

[justplugit]

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.

PNG- i'm gonna try it too.

Rav- catch em' up.

[parishht]

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

SPAWN and




PSYCHO

[Slingah]

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

[Raven]

Originally Posted by justplugit

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.

PNG- i'm gonna try it too.

Rav- catch em' up.

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

[ProfessorM]

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

[BigFish]

Get them trees cut back from the house Matt!

[Raven]

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

[Nebe]

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

[OLD GOAT]

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

[MAC]

Originally Posted by Mike P

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

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by BigFish

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....

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Not so smart

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

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Not so smart

that is f-in priceless..

[Nebe]

pharting squirrel

[Slingah]

these are pissah.....

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Slingah

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.

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by Raven

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

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

[junkmansj]

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

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by junkmansj

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

[basswipe]

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

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

[Gunpowder]

perfect gun for squirrels: the barrett 50 cal

[BigFish]

I am told they taste like chicken!

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

[ShipWrecked]

Originally Posted by Mike P

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.

[Squid kids Dad]

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..

[Hooper]

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....

[Raven]

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...........


until one night i decided i'd JUST 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

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Raven

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

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

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

Rav, that is one beautiful Dingo.