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Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:38 pm
by cmgee67
Blow dart gun! Quiet and effective. Although if you don’t head shot or heart shot, yours neighbors may see a squirrel with some little pins stickin out of him. Airsoft pistol would be a good idea. It wouldn’t kill em but you can keep them run off. You could trap and relocate if you wanted.
Squirrels are tasty critters! You can make you a good dinner with a couple of em. Although just a warning don’t use your wife’s good pans because if you do you might find out how comfortable your couch really is!
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:47 pm
by Jusme
While not as much fun as sling shots, paintball guns, or even blow darts, large rat traps mounted about 5 ft high on several trees baited with peanut butter, brings bushy tail activities to an end very effectively.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:11 pm
by Deltaboy
Marksman makes a Nice one !
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:57 pm
by WTR
I use a wrist rocketed marbles.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 11:24 pm
by carlson1
C-dub wrote:RicoTX wrote:What do you guys have against squirrels? Not being sarcastic....just curious?
Furry tailed little rats! They get into the attic. They eat the bird see my wife puts out for the birds. My dogs bark at them as they stay just out of reach, while my wife is trying to sleep. She works at night in her hospital.
We haven't had this problem yet, but for some folks they get into the engine bay of vehicles and chew up the wires for some reason.
They also carry a lot fleas. Not good for the house pets.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:38 am
by Pawpaw
Squirrels do untold millions of dollars in damage every year. They damage people's homes, commercial buildings, grain stores, and cause communications outages by chewing through cables. Squirrels probably cause more power outages than lightning. The only bright spot in that is a squirrel that causes a power outage doesn't generally survive to ever do it again.
Squirrels are even hazardous to
motorcycle riders!
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:11 am
by Liberty
They eat, Tangerines. They don't even eat the whole thing. They take a bite and move on to another and another.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:45 am
by OlBill
If you use an air soft or other type of pistol - it's practice!
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:05 am
by Excaliber
Pawpaw wrote:Squirrels do untold millions of dollars in damage every year. They damage people's homes, commercial buildings, grain stores, and cause communications outages by chewing through cables. Squirrels probably cause more power outages than lightning. The only bright spot in that is a squirrel that causes a power outage doesn't generally survive to ever do it again.
Squirrels are even hazardous to
motorcycle riders!
My brother had to have his manual transmission rebuilt because squirrels were bringing their nuts underneath and eating them on top of the linkage. Eventually shells fell into just the right position to allow the clutch to just engage but not fully, and the partial engagement burned out the clutch. His mechanic (in Massachusetts) said he sees that all the time.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:10 am
by E.Marquez
The Annoyed Man wrote:
My son and his family, and my wife and I recently all bought a big house together and are now living under one roof. The day we started to move in, we found a dead squirrel in a planter under a tree next to the back fence. It had been there for a while and was beginning to mummify. We threw it out. A month later, we found two more under the same tree in the same spot. I’m pretty sure that the person who lives behind us is shooting them, and dropping them into my yard. If I find another one, I’m going to toss it over the fence with a note attached.
"Son, It may be fun for you, but it ain't much fun for the squirrels, nor my family to pick up the mess. Keep up your squirrel shooting on my property and I'll not be surprised when the squirrels start shooting back.....
Signed, the guy with the ability to teach even a squirrel to shoot"
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:27 am
by Take Down Sicko
Liberty wrote:They eat, Tangerines. They don't even eat the whole thing. They take a bite and move on to another and another.
Thats what they do to my figs and guavas. They ruin them before they ripe enough so i can eat them.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:08 am
by C-dub
Take Down Sicko wrote:Liberty wrote:They eat, Tangerines. They don't even eat the whole thing. They take a bite and move on to another and another.
Thats what they do to my figs and guavas. They ruin them before they ripe enough so i can eat them.
I forgot about that. They are doing that to our pomegranates and peaches.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:52 am
by puma guy
The Annoyed Man wrote:curryman wrote:I use this one:
https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/daisy% ... tid=629708
To appease my wife I shoot them with paintballs. Puts a pretty good thump on them and they have to clean up after. Took about two months to train those tree rats to stay outta my yard and peach trees. Had about a three year lull until the trained ones were replaced with new ones. The shooting has started again.
I started with a pellet gun and only shot males. Didn't help.
Curryman
My son and his family, and my wife and I recently all bought a big house together and are now living under one roof. The day we started to move in, we found a dead squirrel in a planter under a tree next to the back fence. It had been there for a while and was beginning to mummify. We threw it out. A month later, we found two more under the same tree in the same spot. I’m pretty sure that the person who lives behind us is shooting them, and dropping them into my yard. If I find another one, I’m going to toss it over the fence with a note attached.
Maybe your tree is the mythical "Squirrel Graveyard". Just like the "Elephant Graveyard" the squirrels come there to die when it's their time!
T
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:16 pm
by The Annoyed Man
E.Marquez wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:
My son and his family, and my wife and I recently all bought a big house together and are now living under one roof. The day we started to move in, we found a dead squirrel in a planter under a tree next to the back fence. It had been there for a while and was beginning to mummify. We threw it out. A month later, we found two more under the same tree in the same spot. I’m pretty sure that the person who lives behind us is shooting them, and dropping them into my yard. If I find another one, I’m going to toss it over the fence with a note attached.
"Son, It may be fun for you, but it ain't much fun for the squirrels, nor my family to pick up the mess. Keep up your squirrel shooting on my property and I'll not be surprised when the squirrels start shooting back.....
Signed, the guy with the ability to teach even a squirrel to shoot"
Exactly.
Re: Sling Shot recommendation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:58 pm
by Deltaboy
My Grandpa just shot them with 22 Shorts but now days you got to be more creative!