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[Infidel137]

... If you live in a rural area you WILL have squirrels living in your house. ....

Nope. Not so.

 

[Infidel137]

... I enjoy having them as guests in my yard and seeing them frolic. ... When I was a kid I hunted squirrels in the woods with a .22, but I can't say I enjoyed it much, and felt that the small amount of meat I got that way was not worth the effort. ....

I loved it, but I didn't get many. Mostly just enjoyed the time in the woods. Best part was my uncle teaching me how to see them,-- sometimes just a tuft of hair around a limb.

Now we have them outside our front picture window, providing entertainment around the pecan trees. Lately, we have another guest digging up pecans or something in the front yard, caught on game cameras in the middle of the night. He's a real bushy type of squirrel, black with wide white stripes....

 

[smitholdtimer]

In addition to making off with my/our pecans.........

What damages are the squirrels doing to warrant killing them?

The squirrels have been gnawing on the aluminum ground neutral with the power line into my/our residence. That can cause some serious small appliance problems and even more serious major problems in your electrical system; ie well pump & AC or heating unit. Does this answer your question?

 

[alwslate]

The house I lived in for 29 years before moving in to my new smaller house built to accommodate my aging needs was very close to my 8 acre woods. Sitting outside one day I watched a squirrel climb right up my brick wall to the roof. Found out there were 8 squirrels living in my attic. Took a while to kill them all and patch the hole right at the base of the chimney. I have been here on 5 acres for three years. Don't have a woods, just a tree line with huge old trees. There is a family of squirrels
living in the outside vent pipe of my clothes dryer with a nest under the hood of the dryer. An unused John Deere tractor sitting beside my garage has a family of squirrels living under the hood. They are game animals but very invasive rodents that like to chew on wiring insulation.

 

[BC38]

They taste good in a Jambalaya or Gumbo ... be sure and make a pan of biscuits to go with them .

Squirrel , brown gravy and biscuits will also do .

Gary

Floured and fried squirrel with milk gravy, mashed taters, and biscuits is a fine meal too.

 

[Skeet 028]

The old church next yo my house had an infestation of skwerls and asked me to dispose of some. 2 consecutive weeks they has them short out the wiring and land partially fried into the services. Happened my mother grandmother and aunt loved squirrel. I used either the 22 CBs or 22 BBs...and a Sheridan 20 ca pellet rifle to a bit more than decimate the varmints. There were a lot of squirrels round there. Most everyone in town got one or two...at least the ones who wanted to eat them. After over a 120 I got tired of skinning them. Next three years they were i plentitude...Owls in the Belfrey too. Owls are hard to kill with a rifle...ain't much meat in all them feathers. The church finally cut down the dozen or so walnut trees round the church...then the big ol pecan. At the same ranges the pellet rifle killed 'em as well as the BB caps...the CBs were better...I used my old Win M-69...or the Sheridan. I had to use the Sheridan inside the Church itself.

 

[gwpercle]

Floured and fried squirrel with milk gravy, mashed taters, and biscuits is a fine meal too.

Truer Words were never spoken ...

I will Second this motion and pass it !
Gary

 

[M29since14]

Squirrels, and their predilection to chew the wires of motor vehicles, have cost me literally more than a thousand dollars in repairs. I generally have a live and let live approach to wild animals around my house. I don’t so much mind them eating the bird food and occasionally tearing up a bird feeder, but enough is enough on the vehicle repairs. Any squirrel I see near a vehicle will be killed without remorse, if I am able. If they stay away from the house/vehicles and mind their own business, they may survive. Maybe. Likewise, I’m done hauling away raccoons. I’ve transplanted dozens of the nasty things. No more.

Where I live, I can use appropriate weaponry. My weapons of choice for reclaiming my property are a Marlin .22 Magnum rifle (raccoons) and a Mossberg .410 bore slide-action shotgun (squirrels). I’m ready.

 

[BC38]

Truer Words were never spoken ...

I will Second this motion and pass it !
Gary

Add a side of polk greens wilted with hot bacon grease, or maybe a fresh garden salad (in season).

That's about as good as it gets!