Would a decent air rifle kill a grey squirrel?
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julian64 said:
I recently started paying my teenage son a bounty for each dead rabbit he presents me with. I assume some peoples heads will explode at that.
It depends. Are you paying him just less than it costs him to bag them? Important to teach him early on that employers can be b
ds. 
DonkeyApple said:
julian64 said:
I recently started paying my teenage son a bounty for each dead rabbit he presents me with. I assume some peoples heads will explode at that.
It depends. Are you paying him just less than it costs him to bag them? Important to teach him early on that employers can be bds. Timmy40 said:
Exige77 said:
I had to finish them off with a garden tool.
I'm curious, was it the 'Garden Claw' you used, the electric powered scrarifier perhaps, Samurai sword? Brings to mind that scene in Pulp Fiction. Sure it was despatched already but wanted to make sure.
We have had a plague of them this last few months and they either break or pull down the various feeders we have.
More than happy to feed them but when they stop the other visitors being fed and don't respond to being shooed away then they have to go.
There's another one back now.
Exige77 said:
Timmy40 said:
Exige77 said:
I had to finish them off with a garden tool.
I'm curious, was it the 'Garden Claw' you used, the electric powered scrarifier perhaps, Samurai sword? Brings to mind that scene in Pulp Fiction. Sure it was despatched already but wanted to make sure.
We have had a plague of them this last few months and they either break or pull down the various feeders we have.
More than happy to feed them but when they stop the other visitors being fed and don't respond to being shooed away then they have to go.
There's another one back now.
Timmy40 said:
For a non lethal option why not try some aversion therapy with a cheap electric fence energiser, and upturned dustbin lid, and a little ingenuity? I'm sure they'd soon get the message and no permanent harm would be done.
Here is an electric squirrel deterrent:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpcRhflUbcg
Last weekend I was mostly using a mattock to dispatch the things my mother in law's dogs had caught/chewed.
Turns out we could have tried to use the hand grenade I found in the garden a few weeks ago as apparently it was live. The army turned up yesterday and blew it up. And I was in bloody London so I missed all the fun. Who knows? Maybe if I scratch around in the flower beds I'll find some more. Then the squirrels better be on their toes ...
Turns out we could have tried to use the hand grenade I found in the garden a few weeks ago as apparently it was live. The army turned up yesterday and blew it up. And I was in bloody London so I missed all the fun. Who knows? Maybe if I scratch around in the flower beds I'll find some more. Then the squirrels better be on their toes ...
ATG said:
Turns out we could have tried to use the hand grenade I found in the garden a few weeks ago as apparently it was live. The army turned up yesterday and blew it up. And I was in bloody London so I missed all the fun. Who knows? Maybe if I scratch around in the flower beds I'll find some more. Then the squirrels better be on their toes ...
It was the squirrels who buried the grenades. They're out for revenge. So when I started a thread about dealing with a cat problem, and we discussed the many ways of 'managing' them, the thread was closed. Shooting squirrels is seemingly fair game though.
king cat in the neighborhood still sts on my front lawn.
I love running squirrels over though; very funny. Especially the first time it happened when the little st was flattened to the road with only a little tail waving around in the air.
grumpy52 said:
We have a nutter in our area who was popping cats off with an air rifle so offing squirrels shouldn't be a problem.
He should come to my house and decimate the local cat population. Whilst my motion-activated sprinkler seems to do the job at the back, every fking cat in the neighborhood still sts on my front lawn. I love running squirrels over though; very funny. Especially the first time it happened when the little s
t was flattened to the road with only a little tail waving around in the air.
ATG said:
Turns out we could have tried to use the hand grenade I found in the garden a few weeks ago as apparently it was live. The army turned up yesterday and blew it up. And I was in bloody London so I missed all the fun.
How weird !My Mother was walking her dog in Devon yesterday afternoon. She heard an "enormous bang", which startled both her and the dog.( and probably a few squirrels too).
It turns out that there was a live grenade, pin in, in someone's garden. Disposal squad called and neutralised it.... With a bang !
viscountdallara said:
ATG said:
Turns out we could have tried to use the hand grenade I found in the garden a few weeks ago as apparently it was live. The army turned up yesterday and blew it up. And I was in bloody London so I missed all the fun.
How weird !My Mother was walking her dog in Devon yesterday afternoon. She heard an "enormous bang", which startled both her and the dog.( and probably a few squirrels too).
It turns out that there was a live grenade, pin in, in someone's garden. Disposal squad called and neutralised it.... With a bang !
Tyre Smoke said:
DonkeyApple said:
Mr GrimNasty said:
"The grey squirrel is regarded as an invasive non-native species following its inclusion under Schedule 9 of the WCA. Grey squirrels are also listed in the IUCN international list of 100 worst invasive non-native species. This highlights the damage that grey squirrels cause to our native flora and fauna; a problem severe enough to be recognised at a level of global significance. As such, the grey squirrel is regarded as a pest species and is afforded no protection under the WCA. Under Schedule 9 of the WCA, it is illegal to release a grey squirrel into the wild, or allow one to escape. This means if you trap one, you are obliged to humanely dispatch it. You must not let it go as this act would be illegal."
Is this from the UKIP manifesto? 
viscountdallara said:
How weird !
My Mother was walking her dog in Devon yesterday afternoon. She heard an "enormous bang", which startled both her and the dog.( and probably a few squirrels too).
It turns out that there was a live grenade, pin in, in someone's garden. Disposal squad called and neutralised it.... With a bang !
I wonder how often these things turn up? Just how many grenades have people managed to lose? The mind boggles. My Mother was walking her dog in Devon yesterday afternoon. She heard an "enormous bang", which startled both her and the dog.( and probably a few squirrels too).
It turns out that there was a live grenade, pin in, in someone's garden. Disposal squad called and neutralised it.... With a bang !
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