Squirrel Trouble

[RSKY]

My neighbor to the north has squirrels eating the pipes where his electrical service goes into his house. They've also ate some other things that caused him to put out some bucks to get repaired. Guy to the south has had his pickup in the shop twice because of squirrels. First time they ate a tube of some sort in two, made his gas burner sound like a diesel. Second time it was some wiring to the oxygen sensor. His gas milage dropped to about 10 mpg.

In our neighborhood we have a very large crop of squirrels this year.

I have offered to shoot any squirrel in all our yards but they both declined my offer. Thought it would be good practice for my new $180 Maverick 88 shotgun (he says gloating over the low price he paid). They both declined the offer. I don't know why they don't want me shooting in their yards, I haven't done anything too crazy this year.

I then offered to use some traps I have to catch the little fellas. Both neighbors liked that idea until I remarked that they were easier to shoot in the cages anyway. They declined my help again.

They both ask me all the time if I have squirrel trouble and I have told them how to stop them but they don't listen. All you have to do is get a can of roofing tar and smear it on anything you don't want chewed up.

Squirrels are lazy. My mother has a pear tree in her front yard. She picked a sack full and set them on a table on her carport. She said that a squirrel would come up on the carport with her sitting there and get the pears. When the bag was emply he sat and chattered at her until she filled the bag up again. I thought she was making it up but a couple of weeks ago I was sitting talking to her and a half grown squirrel came down out of a tree and unconcerned as could be, he ran up on the table and got a pear with us sitting fifteen feet away. The ground is covered with pears less than a hundred feet away. Lazy, lazy, lazy.

Hope you are all well and enjoying life.

RSKY

 

[Pilot]

It ain't just squirrels. Eating dinner at a picnic table at Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Had some plums in a clear plastic bag right across the table from us. A little masked face appeared across the table, a little hand reached up and away the raccoon went, dragging the bag.

 

[Barry 1]

Google "Mad squirrel disease" Squirrels in western Kentucky have Mad Cow disease!

 

[lockhaven]

kill the gray devils, they have caused me many problems so now I shoot on sight 365 days a year and all I can do is slow the swarm some. I use a pellet gun shoot them in the rib cage and they run off and die so no clean up necessary most of the time.

 

[retiredmgn]

. I use a pellet gun shoot them in the rib cage and they run off and die so no clean up necessary most of the time.

Run off and die a slow lingering death. What a guy.
Most people would make every attempt to make it a clean kill so the animal doesn't suffer.

 

[MossRoad]

Run off and die a slow lingering death. What a guy.
Most people would make every attempt to make it a clean kill so the animal doesn't suffer.

I have to agree. That's not something to be proud about.

 

[lockhaven]

slow lingering death? ever shoot a deer? most travel several hundred yards before dieing, or do you explode them. squirrels will run maybe 50 yards at most before dieing. I said chest shot so for those of you that do not have any knowledge of squirrel anatomy that is a heart lung shot and with a projectile much larger percentage to body size then is used for deer.

 

[MossRoad]

slow lingering death? ever shoot a deer? most travel several hundred yards before dieing, or do you explode them. squirrels will run maybe 50 yards at most before dieing. I said chest shot so for those of you that do not have any knowledge of squirrel anatomy that is a heart lung shot and with a projectile much larger percentage to body size then is used for deer.

The guy that hunts my 20 acres has killed two or three deer there every year for the past 20 years and none have ever gone more than a few yards. Most fall dead in their tracks. That's why I let him hunt there. He waits for a good shot and won't chance a bad one.

 

[Professor Marvel]

Squirrels have chewed up a lot of things on my vehicles and tractors. I bought a 22 PCP pellet rifle that works great but I absolutely try to kill them as cleanly as possible. I prefer not using any of my firearms at my house out of respect for my neighbors. I wish they would do the same for me.

 

[lockhaven]

I have blown the heat to bits and had deer run 50 yards or more had some drop in their tracks, your buddy is just lucky or not telling the complete truth. Most do not drop SCDNR - Wildlife Information