need some real help..i have a ground squirrel in my yard, and he is setting up shop!
 

i am getting more and more holes dug into my yard..ground squirrel..not a gopher..well maybe a gopher...what's the diff? looks like a tree squirrel but less of a bushy tail. the holes i keep covering up..but they keep coming. i had him dead nuts with my bow today, but i hesitated!! i wanted to make sure it wasnt a tree squirrel!! i blew it! i should have blasted it and ID it later...but rookie mistake..(i dont want to kill a squirrel). i just jogged thru a field in the neighborhood and confirmed the beast, and etched the positive ID into my mind's eye. i am not so sure the little bastard will present itself again. it hears me moving in the house and it is like lightning!! GONE!

they are paving that field, and displacing those damn things into our gardens!! i see it, and i am shooting an arrow at it. hard to put on my wrist release, grab arrow..maybe the perfect reason to get a GAMO .177 pellet rifle with silencer.

can i trap it with one of those havaheart traps? what would i use as bait? carrots?

yep..havahearts work...we call 'em "gray diggers" up here...peanuts make good bait. .22 short nails 'em well...

peanuts!! cool thanks..this needs to stop.

vash,
It sounds like a chipmunk to me. I have had good luck with peanut butter and a minnow trap I purchased at Walmart. I checked it everyday and released the little rodents about nine miles away at an Army base.

i honestly googled every ground rodent name i could think of, and nothing looks familiar..

hopefully i can post a picture post mortem..

Buy the .177

Buy a shovel

The neighborhood fox and I have an agreement, what he doesn't get, I do.

Karl
88 Targa

Here's probably enough pics to ID yours...probably the California Gray Squirrel...
Seed eater, and as you know, lives in burrows...

WDFW -- Western Gray Squirrels

Close.......my hat is different.....:>)

Karl
88 targa

Get the Gamo Whisper.

You will spend a lot of time and money try to solve the problem, then you will get the pellet gun, and suddenly the problem will be solved.

PWD..perfect..ID'd him..california ground squirrel.

a pellet rifle is probably the best bet..i can shoot it from a window..cant do that with a bow.

gamo whisper!!

PWD..perfect..ID'd him..california ground squirrel.

a pellet rifle is probably the best bet..i can shoot it from a window..cant do that with a bow.

gamo whisper!!

Hate to come off as a softy, but they really are suckers for peanuts in the shell in a havaheart squirrel trap. But like I've said, .22 short round in a single shot .22 rifle bothers the neighbors not at all...

my neighbor owns a havaheart..he said i can borrow it.

this will be a two pronged attack..i hope i trap him. he is wily!! i have only seen him that one time!

thanks for the peanuts tip. i will work up a veggie nut medley for him..:)

I read , walnuts..... also fox urine , I "had" a squirrel problem, now I have a fox problem

GOPHER ERADICATION
Dry Ice is heavier than air so it will find its way to the bottom of gopher dwellings. Place 1 to 2 inch pieces as deep into each hole as can be reached and fill the front of the hole with dirt. If you miss some holes the process may have to be repeated. Jerry Yamamoto of Hayward, California reports that he successfully used Dry Ice to eradicate regular Argentine ants from his front yard. Perhaps this could work on fire ants too

Hook a hose to the exhaust of a an old piece of yard equipment.... The more smoke the better...... Start the motor and cover every place the smoke comes out.... Once you see no more smoke.... Let the motor run out of gas...

Bye Bye Mr Squirrel....

all great info above

a $200 handheld Beeman Tempest @ 650 fps w/medium weight pellet will bring down a 5# seagull sitting on top of a utility pole if you hit him in the head. A squirrel will go down if you clip him on the head with a rock. Either be a sharpshooter or get a 22

Beeman sells some trick factory rebuilt rifles. It seems to come to 25-33.3% off new.

If you catch it with a Hav-A-Heart, then you have a live critter that you can do all kindsa stuff with... like...

1. turn it loose in WalMart
2. turn it loose in Walgreens
3. turn it loose in Burger King
4. turn it loose in the tool box of a friend's pickup

You get the idea.

Dude... please tell me you don't talk like that.

Cheeky, spoken abbreviations are not cool, man. :D

WTF Vash? If it is a tree squirrel, you eat it. If it is a ground squirrel, you toss it. Where is the problem?

Get some judo points for the bow. This is the proper point for small game.

http://www.adventurousheart.co.za/sh...tures/judo.JPG

Cheers

George

Ok, one more point. If it lives in the GROUND, it is a grounds squirrel.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:q...2007_2.jpg&t=1

These are generally not eaten. I have a friend who tried and said it wasn't good. And he is not picky if it comes to eating rodents.

Cheers,

George

Beware the zombie squirrel!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/...c3d0f055a1.jpg

oh lord...not the right photo to look at so early in the morning!! yikes.

Any updates? Squirrel hunting this weekend?

How about a sub-sonic round in your .22?

George

LMFAO! that was GREAT!



and they called them............................"RODENTIN"!

no love at the havaharts...i think my veggie garden is just to much food. they wont even look at my medley of nuts and veggies..

talked to a gardner..he said, poisoning them is the best way. 4 more burrows in my yard. i have a judo tipped arrow already nocked..my wrist release already clipped to the d-loop. but no visual of the damn thing.

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there have been some Squirrels hunting


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I love not caring . I have dozens of gopher holes in my side yard. I don't even water it in the summer to save water. Let it die and it comes back in the Winter. Full of holes.

They always can tell when something is up. All animals do. They'll eat out of your hand one day, the next you show up in camo or with a weapon, even a stick bow, they are nowhere to be seen ...

I would not poison them. That could poison other animals that you may care about a little more.

Definitely keep us updated - I am hoping for a trophy shot, bow in hand!

George

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0Oz8ApvnZh...rel.trophy.jpg

Silly suggestion, vash, but why don't you just get a cat? Let it terrorize those rodents for you. I came home last night to see my headlights illuminate one of my cats trotting down the driveway between our house and the neighbor's, carrying a limp rat in its mouth. He then walked across the street, either to eat it or dispose of it in someone else's yard. Either way, it's one less rodent on my side of the street.

give pops a call cliff... he can recount the lazer beam alert beeper wake up, middle of the night coon hunt he had in his BVD's with a a .22 out the doggie door. that durn coon was shattin up on the top of his garage kept covered cars.

one adam -12 one adam -12 see the man 10-54d(possible dead body) at the VASH residence! subject is armed and considered very dangerous use extreme caution!

Cliff, I've heard you need to put a thumb-sized blob of peanut butter in the Hav-A-Heart... it puts out much more food stank and will draw rodenty critters like flies.

thanks..i'll try that.

Blast those varmints with the new improved Rodent Blaster, Guaranteed to git the job done, wake up the neighbors, and make you the hit of the party! Press here to ignite

I snipe a half dozen a week with a .22 in our back horse pasture.




The kid's fill the holes with a garden hose then wack'em with a shovel then they come out coughing. Quality entertainment.[img]

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