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....are starting in on their breeding season and this morning we had 8 of them in our oak tree tearing around trying to catch the one lone female. I shot her and a another male before the others got the hint and left. Pellet guns are handy for this. For the next month we'll be seeing squirrels smeared all over the street in front of us and the lone oak in the back yard will be a busy place. The damned things get in my bird feeders and stick stuff in my gardens I don't want there so every year right about now I wage war on those fuzzy suckers. I have a friend up the street that eats what I shoot so they don't really go to waste.

I've done the live trap and relocation thing but honestly the only thing a squirrel pays much attention to is a bang or a dead brethren fall from the tree....like a crow. I see a hole up on the truck where one has been going in and out of and I think it was this female. Now I have to wade in the snow with a ladder, hammer, nails and some wire fabric to put over the hole to keep any others from calling it home.

Anybody else have squirrel issues? How do you deal with them.
 
MrTom said:
....are starting in on their breeding season and this morning we had 8 of them in our oak tree tearing around trying to catch the one lone female. I shot her and a another male before the others got the hint and left. Pellet guns are handy for this. For the next month we'll be seeing squirrels smeared all over the street in front of us and the lone oak in the back yard will be a busy place. The damned things get in my bird feeders and stick stuff in my gardens I don't want there so every year right about now I wage war on those fuzzy suckers. I have a friend up the street that eats what I shoot so they don't really go to waste.

I've done the live trap and relocation thing but honestly the only thing a squirrel pays much attention to is a bang or a dead brethren fall from the tree....like a crow. I see a hole up on the truck where one has been going in and out of and I think it was this female. Now I have to wade in the snow with a ladder, hammer, nails and some wire fabric to put over the hole to keep any others from calling it home.

Anybody else have squirrel issues? How do you deal with them.
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We live in the woods. So we have DOZENS of them UNDER the bird feeders. Black, gray and fox. The electric fence wire designed to keep bears away also keeps the squirrels off the 8 feeders on one pole. They only try it ONCE. That 50 mile charger with only 150' of wire, sends them straight out about 10' LOL
 
I let my Springer Spaniel out the patio door to go for a run/chase after the grey squirrels that are in the yard, or near the bird feeder. He thinks it's great fun, and has come close a time or two at getting the critter, but not yet. Otherwise, the pellet gun is always an option.
 
I too live in the woods and they drive my dog crazy
I let her out to have at them every morning
They like to taunt her
She’s a 10 month old German Shorthaired Pointer with energy to burn, they say
“Even a Blind Squirrel will find a Nut”, but they also say
“Every Dog has Her Day”
I’m sure Mr. Chisel Tooth
Will slip up one day
And it’ll be CURTAINS!upload_2020-2-13_8-25-5.pngupload_2020-2-13_8-25-5.jpeg
 
No doubt, Ive sent it to a few people and they say the same. Funniest thing they've seen in a long time. Makes their day. Thanks for the humor.
 
I have a clay pigeon thrower that has an extra large target shelf that I strap an ear of corn to, cock it and then wait for Mr. Squiggels to climb on board for a treat. I have a long lead to the spring release running under the door so I don't spook the critters. I get about 80 feet out of it on a launch....clear across a wide street and well into the yards over yon, but out local boys with the badge have advised me that I should think twice before doing any more ride providing. Apparently it distracts drivers to see a squirrel traveling at warp speed thru the air. The son-in-law has it [or should] right now or I'd get a picture. I just bent a 15" X 15" square of 1/16" aluminum at the half way point to form a 90 degree angle and screwed it to the target thrower's arm, then used some parachute cord to lengthen the trip cord. I got this idea from a site similar to this.
 
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Yup. that's it only mine is a ground type, not clamp on. Most of our squirrels come from across the street so that's where I was sending them back to. I had to make some adjustments as to where I set the trap because they were bouncing off the house where they come from. The street is the fourth busiest in town and squirrels sailing over it got some attention and someone dialed the local cops. The cops got quite a laugh out of the apparatus but said no more....or at least not across the street. I tried out of the back yard but they fuzzy suckers would end up in the creek and a couple actually drowned and that wasn't my intent, plus I haven't got any real decent vantage point to where I can see them get up on the arm.

I had to adjust the spring's tension much higher than what one would use for clays so the squirrels leave the arm at about 40 mph and at about a 40 degree angle. Really gives them a ride.
 
MrTom said:
Yup. that's it only mine is a ground type, not clamp on. Most of our squirrels come from across the street so that's where I was sending them back to. I had to make some adjustments as to where I set the trap because they were bouncing off the house where they come from. The street is the fourth busiest in town and squirrels sailing over it got some attention and someone dialed the local cops. The cops got quite a laugh out of the apparatus but said no more....or at least not across the street. I tried out of the back yard but they fuzzy suckers would end up in the creek and a couple actually drowned and that wasn't my intent, plus I haven't got any real decent vantage point to where I can see them get up on the arm.

I had to adjust the spring's tension much higher than what one would use for clays so the squirrels leave the arm at about 40 mph and at about a 40 degree angle. Really gives them a ride.
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good old American ingenuity,
You gotta love it
 
My Father-In-Law is an Italian immigrant and he takes his gardening and fruit trees pretty seriously. A few years ago he had a bunch of squirrels up in his pear tree eating some and knocking a bunch down. He went after them with a pellet gun which the city he lives in doesn’t allow. A few days later my brother in law was walking down the street and a police car rolled up next to him with the window down. The officer says, “Angelo, we’ve had a complaint that your father’s been shooting at squirrels out his window.”
By brother in law looks him square and says, “that’s a lie. He was standing right under the tree shooting at them.”
The officer said, “well you have to tell him to stop!” Angelo said, “I’m not telling him, you go tell him.”
No dice, the cop chickened out.
 

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