Squirrel trapping?
02-11-2007, 07:24 PM
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Squirrel trapping?
I'm living in town currently and as a country boy who grew up with a woods 50 yards from my back door, this city life is driving me nuts!
I have a huge fox squirrel who frequents the bird feeder on the balcony of my apartment. Anyone have any good ways to trap him/kill him that doesn't involve using my 20 ga?
I'm jonesing for some squirrel meat bad, and everytime I see him, I get hungrier!
I have a huge fox squirrel who frequents the bird feeder on the balcony of my apartment. Anyone have any good ways to trap him/kill him that doesn't involve using my 20 ga?
I'm jonesing for some squirrel meat bad, and everytime I see him, I get hungrier!
02-11-2007, 08:20 PM
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
ORIGINAL: eatsleephunt
Yeah, I used catch them in homemade box traps. It works well actually, use some corn for bait. You can probably find box trap designs on a google search.
Yeah, I used catch them in homemade box traps. It works well actually, use some corn for bait. You can probably find box trap designs on a google search.
What's the best way to kill 'em once you catch 'em that won't make the meat toxic to eat?
02-12-2007, 07:46 PM
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
I put a gunny sack over the mouth of the trap, pull the gate, shake em' into the sack and use a bat. If you shoot them in the box other critters will smell the blood and stay out. Also, I caught a coon in one once, nothing else would go in after that.
02-13-2007, 11:19 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
ORIGINAL: eatsleephunt
I put a gunny sack over the mouth of the trap, pull the gate, shake em' into the sack and use a bat. If you shoot them in the box other critters will smell the blood and stay out. Also, I caught a coon in one once, nothing else would go in after that.
I put a gunny sack over the mouth of the trap, pull the gate, shake em' into the sack and use a bat. If you shoot them in the box other critters will smell the blood and stay out. Also, I caught a coon in one once, nothing else would go in after that.
02-14-2007, 04:33 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
Use a #110 conibear trap kills it like a big mousetrap they are only like5 dollars used work good have been doing it the past months for squirrels going on the house roof. Put the trap in a square bucket opening with bait inside the bucket.
03-07-2007, 11:00 PM
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
Go to the hardware store and buy a rat trap one of those big oversized snap traps and super glue corn or some of your bird seed on the trigger and set it were the squirrel can get to it. Its quick and humane and your neighbors will never know
03-08-2007, 06:14 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Squirrel trapping?
ORIGINAL: mnhunter_32
Go to the hardware store and buy a rat trap one of those big oversized snap traps and super glue corn or some of your bird seed on the trigger and set it were the squirrel can get to it. Its quick and humane and your neighbors will never know
Go to the hardware store and buy a rat trap one of those big oversized snap traps and super glue corn or some of your bird seed on the trigger and set it were the squirrel can get to it. Its quick and humane and your neighbors will never know