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Re: squirrel expert needed
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04/13/15 07:54 PM
04/13/15 07:54 PM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,934 SE WI
DuxDawg
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SE WI
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Grey Squirrels are easy... until they escape a trap. Won't catch 'em the same way, nor likely in the same spot, a second time. Put a different style trap a bit further away and back in business. Hickory, Black Walnut, PB then sunflower in that order around here. Agree on roughing up the hull a bit for attractant, spreading a few around the trap for confidence and placing as near as possible to where they are already travelling. Good luck!
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke "We are fast approaching... rule by brute force." -Ayn Rand
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Re: squirrel expert needed
[Re: EatenByLimestone]
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04/14/15 09:02 PM
04/14/15 09:02 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 23 Georgia
Barehunter
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Georgia
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I don't know that I can add anything to the bait side, but I'll second needing to get to the hole in order to patch it. We've gone to sets with 2 tubes on opposite sides of a hole and hardware cloth to funnel. My favorite set exactly!
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Re: squirrel expert needed
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#5015621
04/18/15 03:15 PM
04/18/15 03:15 PM
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Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 1,361 mequon, wisconsin
Paul Winkelmann
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Here's my new top secret squirrel set. I have a bunch of the old clunky 2-door Havaharts that were given to me by customers. You
know, the ones with the peddle in the middle than can spring both ways. Anyhow, I put pieces of thin plywood on the floor and fence
them in to catch rabbits using hay for bait. I caught the rabbits but the squirrels were raising havoc with the mulch and the lawn so
she wanted those gone too. All I had to do was remove the hay and put in my combination bird seed, rabbit pellets, and whole kernel
corn. All three cages held grey squirrels today. The customer was thrilled but she wanted to know when I was going to get rid of the
raccoons too. I told her it's hard to get a raccoon in a cage that already holds a squirrel, but we'll catch them too, eventually.
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Re: squirrel expert needed
[Re: Paul Winkelmann]
#5019185
04/20/15 08:53 PM
04/20/15 08:53 PM
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Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 30 St. Louis area
Dave Schmidt
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St. Louis area
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I told her it's hard to get a raccoon in a cage that already holds a squirrel, but we'll catch them too, eventually. [/quote]...tell that to a coon, Wink! (Mr. Bandit might not get into the trap...but he'll get the squirrel out...one bite at a time!)
ALL OUT Wildlife Control
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Re: squirrel expert needed
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#5025315
04/24/15 11:37 PM
04/24/15 11:37 PM
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Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 30 St. Louis area
Dave Schmidt
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I know every one of my fingers that goes into a cage with a coon or a squirrel gets bitten!
ALL OUT Wildlife Control
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Re: squirrel expert needed
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05/03/15 11:13 PM
05/03/15 11:13 PM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 31 Missouri
rbthuntr2
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Posts: 31
Missouri
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I put a little platform in the fork of a tree and set a 110 conbear upright on the platform with a chunk of corn on the cob on the trigger. Works great. If they are stealing tomatoes I use tomatoes for bait.
I'm here to learn and help.
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