Quote from: kp on July 06, 2010, 07:15:22 AM
squirrels are nothing but rats with cuter outfits.

wait until they nest in your garage and then move into your house.
or until they chew through your phone/cable/wifi wire and you have to
wait for the cable guy (yes, the cable guy) to come out a week later
to repair it. Or your cat thinks it's friendly and she/he gets bit or clawed.


need squirrels exterminated? call me. I've got it down. just me and my
880 pump Daisy with pointed pellets.      one shot to the head usually works.

Amateur,

I've got a gamo 1200fps breakbarrel air rifle. Literally blows limbs off squirrels.

I'm a freelance mercenary, I travel the world hunting squirrels.

dude, you're my hero!


it's more challenging to use the pump Daisy though.
Kinda like "I still miss my ex, but my aim is improving".

I shoot them from inside my kitchen with the sliding door open just
a crack. Don;t want to alert the neighbors!

winchester makes one called the "whisper"  I think it shoots 1500fps they are around $350 if I remember right.  this time of year I have no problem letting a well aimed quick shot from my 10-22 go from my 2nd floor.  The ground is soft enough to suck up the round and there are so many fireworks bang going it just blends in.  Otherwise I have a pump pistol that works great and is just louder that a can of pop opening.  the evil rats ate through my screen on my kitchen window and ripped appart my cubbard.  they will pay.  My dog and I declaired war on them and we're winning.  My dog thinks I'm god when I can get one to fall out of a tree for him.  But the flying one is pretty cool though

I think we need to have a squirrel shooting party. My .22 with Colibri
ammo is pretty quiet.

yeah, my dog thinks it's pretty cool when I shoot one in a tree and
it falls from the sky too!

I'd have to agree on the flying one, it has some cool points, but
it's still a squirrel.

its on double secret probation.  one slip up and I'm shaking the house yellin' pull.

call me when that happens, I want to see this!

Good to see I am among other hardened squirrel killing veterans.

A standard 22 rifle with subsonic ammunition is quieter than a beer can being opened and gets the job done. LOTS of bullet drop though.

IMHO 20gr Aguila Colibri in a .22 revolver FTW

Whoa! I haven't been on here for a while and you guys are talking about a subject near and dear to my heart...I hate squirrels with a passion. I too have been down the .22 extermination path. I found that they reproduce so fast that it doesn't matter how many you shoot because they just keep multiplying.
Bastards have chewed through my mower gas cap, daughter's bicycle seat, gas grill line, built a nest in my gas vent coming through the chimney to name a few. We just had our trees trimmed and that got rid of a bunch of them but there are always more.

seriously, they're nothing more than tree rats.

After shooting about 3 dz this past winter, the population in my backyard
is way down. But the sneaky little fckrs have such acute hearing I really
have to use stealth mode when I open a window to poke out a barrel.

I'm always fixing cable wires cuz of them..  and this is in the city.. the burbs must be 70timmes worse..

Quote from: cokey on July 07, 2010, 10:49:29 AM
I'm always fixing cable wires cuz of them..  and this is in the city.. the burbs must be 70timmes worse..

I'm in the city and so is atomic410...actually I think the city is worse. The city tree rats are very aggressive.

Quote from: fasterblkduc on July 07, 2010, 02:25:23 PM
I'm in the city and so is atomic410...actually I think the city is worse. The city tree rats are very aggressive.

This is true. I'm in the woods and they spook much more easily. You have to be a real ninja to sneak up on them.

They multiply faster than you can kill them.  Not really worth it in the city unless it is your full time job.  We have just taken steps to minimize the damage and we live with them.  Knock down the nest's and trim your trees back.  Put aluminum foil on everything they chew they don't like it.  Just whatever you do don't put poison out it will kill other wildlife.

I am in favor of extermination but just don't let your kids see bloody snow, or you will have some explaining to do.