Squirrels

[torchey 1,202]

Had a job come in about 10 days ago the lady was having problems with her feed bin being raided , she said the most shes counted coming out at one time was eight ....yesterday i took my 38th squirrel off their ................whats the most you,ve took off one job??......

[CushtyJook 1,097]

When I used to work on a shoot I was looking after the smallest of woods I doubt could Call it a wood it was more like a covert of a few oak trees really, the count when I finneshed after the summer was 970 they just kept coming I used to run trap line and shoot them, there was some houses nearby and a row of poplar trees that would run up to the main house gardens then into the small covert so I guess once I took a few out more would move along the tree line and take over the covert, pheasant feeders where the main attraction and I could easily catch up to ten a day on my trap line

[Rowan 308]

well done , that's great going . it'll keep you in ferret food for a while , mine love um.

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Ferret food...my ferrets don't get a sniff of them!! Too tasty

[torchey 1,202]

When I used to work on a shoot I was looking after the smallest of woods I doubt could Call it a wood it was more like a covert of a few oak trees really, the count when I finneshed after the summer was 970 they just kept coming I used to run trap line and shoot them, there was some houses nearby and a row of poplar trees that would run up to the main house gardens then into the small covert so I guess once I took a few out more would move along the tree line and take over the covert, pheasant feeders where the main attraction and I could easily catch up to ten a day on my trap line

Thats a lot of squirrels, they must have done a fair bit of damage

[Ratmanwan 66]

Once had 15 out an old lady's loft, there wasn't a foot of wiring that hadn't got teeth marks in it.

[Rowan 308]

Ferret food...my ferrets don't get a sniff of them!! Too tasty

 

So I keep getting told, I just can't fancy em , too much like a rat for me, should be more open minded I guess doing what I do.

[torchey 1,202]

Picked up another two brings it to 40 squirrels in under two weeks....the ammount of grub they must have been eating and storing theyre all built like shithouses..

[Nicepix 5,650]

 

Ferret food...my ferrets don't get a sniff of them!! Too tasty

 

So I keep getting told, I just can't fancy em , too much like a rat for me, should be more open minded I guess doing what I do.

 

 

Get a few big bucks and take the back legs off them and slice off the saddles. Chuck the rest unless you like making stews and broths from carcases.They are a pain to skin, but the meat is well worth it.

[Guest Navek]

I find if you soak the meat for 24 hours in butter milk in fridge the dip in batter and fry them there a good tasting meat....also if you soak them in a good spicy marinade and the grill there quiet hard to beat

[shropshire mole 190]

They are game in USA, never really fancied them myself, although a local butcher sells them occasionally.

 

Most I have had is 16 using tunnels and fenns, thought that was alot

[fireman 10,774]

I can get a pound each for trapped squirrels that are used in UK restraunts...

[CushtyJook 1,097]

 

When I used to work on a shoot I was looking after the smallest of woods I doubt could Call it a wood it was more like a covert of a few oak trees really, the count when I finneshed after the summer was 970 they just kept coming I used to run trap line and shoot them, there was some houses nearby and a row of poplar trees that would run up to the main house gardens then into the small covert so I guess once I took a few out more would move along the tree line and take over the covert, pheasant feeders where the main attraction and I could easily catch up to ten a day on my trap line

Thats a lot of squirrels, they must have done a fair bit of damage

Mainly to the plastic feed drums so we started using metal drums and placing tunnels undernearth the feeders and would check traps in morning and by the time you had came back round hour later you had another one , never seemed to check a trap that was empty, I even used to run a plank between two trees put a bait station in the middle and fen traps either side of the bait and would pick loads up that way

[forest of dean redneck 11,189]

I can get a pound each for trapped squirrels that are used in UK restraunts...

Flightless partridge.

[Rimfireboy! 1,463]

I lost count last year, there's been a bit of a lull these last couple of months, but now the feeders are in use they're back. I'm sure I'll be getting a few most weeks from now until next spring.