Our new job!

[Guest houndblair]

Forget the bleddie mink, I now have an even bigger job!! On our newly aqqired shooting/ferreting permssion on a nice mansion in the Gloucestershire countryside, the landowner has said he will apy us for every squirrel we cath using any method possible, We pan to shoot them with the air rifles but i will be setting a few on my fenns around. Any of you boys or girls who have experiance with squirrel controll tips and or advice would be apprieceted!

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Just about any trap ye care to set should prove far more profitable than skulking around with an air rifle, mate.

[Guest houndblair]

Well ditch i have my teqniques, going to set some fenns up wens i have money to buy em, but in the mean time shooting is the only option. Am going to spead some nuts and use the '2p coin' method to draw em in BANG MONEY GOES IN DE POKET WEHOO

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Hound; If ye on a bit of a tight budget there, and after tree rats? A tip and a hint, mate:

 

Whole (Unkibbled) Maize is a lot cheaper than nuts Also, know that squirrels are bolshy little b*stards and not at all shy or 'crafty' as rats are. Thus they can be taken in the most rudimentary of traps. One of the most effective and simple traps ever marketed was Jack Legg's " Midget ". Quite easy to create ye own of that sort. Just get some medium weight welded mesh of half inch and a bit of floor board. Form a shortish tunnel on top of the board and just provide a standard, push up flap door. Peg the traps down or they're liable to rolling once they get one.

 

Experiment around that idea and ye'll be coming back from ye prowls to find some waiting for ye. Get to fire that air rifle then too!

[Guest houndblair]

Thanks for that ditch i will probaly have a blast at that trap idea

 

Thanks