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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.

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Designed for gophers...dunno if it would work for squirrels
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I use oned one of those "have-a-hart" traps.



Then shot them with a pellet gun.


Works every time.
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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.
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shoot 'em.
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It's very interesting.
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My RWS Diana.
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It can hit a tuna can lid at 210'.
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('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
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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.
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Shoot them. Shoot them all, filthy little rodents.

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Shoot them. Shoot them all, filthy little rodents.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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
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that is QUITE the ruger setup, angela.
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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.

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.

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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.

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!

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