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[Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>]

Please describe these "snares." Thanks.

Lee Reich, PhD

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On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Scott Smith wrote:

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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