anyone successfully catch a ground squirrel with a MacaBEE "ole reliable"?
 

i have about $70 worth of these traps. ground squirrels are attracted to my garden and are burrowing everywhere. i missed one by an inch with a small game arrow today. i was fool and went for the head shot, instead of patiently waiting for the body blow. camo works in my backyard (wife thinks i am insane).

anyways, i checked instructions. do i need to partially bury them in light soil? the instructions imply i just set them into the burrows.

i might just need to quit being so cheap, and buy that darn pellet rifle.

trap looks like this:

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Designed for gophers...dunno if it would work for squirrels

I use oned one of those "have-a-hart" traps.



Then shot them with a pellet gun.


Works every time. :)

Dang it, buy the air rifle already. If you can shoot a bow safely, you can shoot an air rifle. I've been plinking in my back yard with a .177 air pistol. No-one cares or knows. If you have s neighbor who is out to get you and a nosy watcher, then YMMV.

shoot 'em.

It's very interesting.

Gamo Whisper 1000+ fps w/ scope.

My RWS Diana.
~ 1,400 fps.
RWS Mod. 400 (2x7) scope.
It can hit a tuna can lid at 210'.
Good fun.
('Never had success w/the Macabee traps.)
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I would not use a 1000+fps air rifle in a residential area, A cheap crossman or daisy at 400- 600fps will do the job much safer. An to restate: use a pellet gun not a BB gun. BB ricochet

Those work great for gophers. Ground squirrels are much larger beasts and those are to small for em.

A lot of people get the two confused. Which do you have?

I've used those traps very successfully with a tether line and a small stake to keep them varmits from dragging themselves further into a burrow once sprung.

Shoot them. Shoot them all, filthy little rodents.

angela

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Finger OFF the trigger. Good training, Angela..

Shooting sure seems more humane than being stabbed in the gut, dying slowly in pain.

Please allow me to share my ground squirrel eradication equipment.

I absolutely HATE them...

The Ruger is weapon of choice. But the Mossberg is useful when I've forgotten my glasses and also offers a certain entertainment value that the Ruger, despite its great accuracy lacks.

I HATE SQUIRRELS! FILTHY nasty little things. :mad:

angela

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We have mucho cats. Keep squirrels in the trees for the most part. And occasionally we find a half eaten rat under the bed.

Gunna buy me a shotgun an kill all the squirrels I seeeee
Gunna buy me a shotgun an kill all the squirrels I seeeee
When I kill all... the squirrels I seeeee... squirrels ain't gunna bother me...
Gunna buy me a shotgun an kill all the squirrels I see.



I'm more interested in the receipt Vash is going to come up with :D

that is QUITE the ruger setup, angela.

Okay it is a Ruger, isn't it? Says so on the barrel... Unlike you guys, I'm not "into" spoons enough to have all the models down, know the clues, etc., like I do with Porsches so the opportunity for me to call it one thing and it be another is entirely possible... Let me know if it's something else. :rolleyes:

It had a different barrel on it when we first had it. It was a very long barrel, not round - I think it was octogon on the outside. It weighed a ton. Incredible to shoot, but if you were at it for a while, it was REALLY heavy. So Steve replaced that barrel with this one.

Says Ruger on it - shoots good. Squirrels are dead.

angela

Ruger 10-22 with a custom stock, short bull barrel...made for making very tight little groups at 50 yards...nice rifle!