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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The squirrel pressure is just too intense
  • Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 08:27:47 -0500

I still don't understand the inadequacy of natural predators.  Why are fishers so uncommon?  Why don't hawks and other raptors taking enough squirrels so we see less squirrels?  Makes me appreciate natural predators more.  My father told me that when he was a kid around 1922, that squirrels weren't seen in town parks but mostly when out in the woods.  What could have been different in 1922?

Indeed shooting is illegal in my town, but I used to catch many squirrels as well as about everything else in a Havahart® trap I set when I had a small fenced garden.  When I really got mad about squirrels ruining my crops I'd drape a shower curtain over the cage then run a PVC pipe from the car exhaust to the cage and that was very effective.  Not my idea of fun, shows how mad I was about the damage.

I've got two hounds and I'm going to let them have a try at squirrels.
C. Paradise
Massachusetts zone 5ish

Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 7/3/2004 7:54:26 AM US Eastern Standard Time, redherring@tnaccess.com writes:
a lot of
squirrels.  Will a BB gun with pellets work on squirrels? A 22 seems like
overkill, and I remember shotgun shells are expensive.
I've often said one can have squirrels or nuts but not both. I feel sorry for those of you that live in populated areas where shooting isn't a good idea or against the law. To answer your question, no normally a BB gun will not kill squirrels outright. However a pellet gun with about 7 pumps will. As a BB spirels in flight, purchase pellets to use with the pump air rifle.

A rifle isn't necessarly overkill. If one uses (my main defense ammuntion) 22 BC shorts or 22 target shorts that uses a slower burning powder has a much quieter report and still has enough umpf to outright kill squirrels, rabbits, crows, etc.  The report is such that my neighbors seldom hear the report. I use a single shot el`cheapo rifle. I keep my population under control and I livwe in a wooded area, maybe total of 10 acres of woods around the house and buildings.




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