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  • From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] squirrels
  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:38:49 -0400

I have had some luck with the snares Lucky mentions. Put about four of them on a 6' pole which is leaned 45 degrees against a tree they like to climb up. Squirrels will prefer using the 45 degree ramp to walking vertically on the tree. I would say the hardest part is to learn how to set the snares properly, they are quite fickle. I have caught several squirrels in them in spite of bad setting technique. Many more times I see a snare moved due to a squirrel that got away. They are cheap, around $1 each.

There is a tube kind of lethal squirrel trap which was in the CRFG magazine last year. I got one and did not get a single squirrel in it.

The Havahart traps I have very intermittent luck with. This year I have not caught a single squirrel in one, but last year I got half a dozen. My best recipe is the .22 pellet, but it sounds like that will not work for you Alan.

This year I have largely been OK due to all the squirrels I killed via bait-and-shoot before the fruits came out, but there is one spot I cannot shoot due to a neighbor house in the back and they have recently stripped a couple peach trees in that area. I have now set several snares in that area and also threw down some sunflowers and corn in the hope of distracting them from the peaches.

Scott





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