I’ve just gotten home from the Toyota dealership. Yesterday when I started my Tundra most of the warning lights came on in the dash and the speedometer would not work. I have $1,100 worth of rodent damage to my wiring harness. There are several major parts that have to come out to get to the wires. Luckily in our little town I can shoot a shotgun in the city limits. We live west of town and are only in the city limits so they can tax us. My little Winchester Mod. 42 - 410 and I are headed out the door now. Depending on the age of the squirrels tomorrow nights menu will be either fried squirrel or squirrel and dumplings.
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Fried squirrel is jus jine with me, Brother.
Like most everthing else, some gravy, (No Possum
) with some biscuits to sop it all up with, sweetens th deal...
dependin on th season, some sweet taters, greens, etc'll give ya a lil extry iron, an vitaming A...
@OakSmoke Good luck with yer efforts to git em to quit eatin yer veh wirin...yer in fer an epic battle
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Sorry to hear about your Tundra. Good luck shooting, Kill'em all! The ones that were not present during the crime are for sure complicit in some form or fashion.......they are rodents after all.
When I was a kid they would get into our attic and we would have to go up there and kill them. Then my brother's and I started trapping and shooting any and all squirrels on sight. I bet we shot hundreds of those lil punks with our air rifle. No matter how many we shot, it seemed like we always had them around.
The best was shooting them out of my bedroom window, when they were on the patio and my Mom was out there catching some rays. She was never a big fan of a wounded or headshot squirrel flopping around on the patio when she was trying to get a decent tan. LOL. Ahhhhh, memories.Comment
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My parents retired to VA. My Dad was from MS, and brought a pecan tree back from MS one year and planted it in the back yard. It took years for it to get big enough to bear pecans, but the squirrels ate them before they were ready to pick. He resorted to his Browning12 ga semi-auto. He shot a ton of the tree rats, but they just kept coming. It took a few more years before there were enough nuts for my Dad to get any.
They were very tasty fried and then simmered in gravy.Last edited by RonB; January 27, 2022, 04:52 PM.Comment
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Let me at 'em!
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Every dog I've had has chased squirrels. Some got close. The only dog that ever caught one was Jake, my Rat Terrier. They don't have that name for nothing. Squirrels are tree rats, and he caught this one and killed it. Unfortunately, Jake passed away last year of congestive heart failure, or I'd send him your way. -
Bogy I met a man with an honest to goodness squirrel dog. I even got to hunt with him once. It was a rat terrier also. He would run ahead of us and squirrels would come down the trees to bark at him. They paid no attention to us, just the dog. We would shoot the squirrel and the dog would bring it to us. One of the slickest things I have ever seen. -
Bogy My dog Jasmine was a primitive dog, very smart, and a great hunter. But she never obsessed over squirrels seemingly knowing that they were a waste of her time. But one day in the backyard a squirrel decided he wanted to mess with a dog and started coming down the tree, shaking its tail and darting back up the tree. He picked the wrong dog. When he tried once again to come down to tease her she turned, snatched him up, shook him, and tossed him to die on the lawn.
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A few years back, Mrs called me from work, she had trouble starting her car, and then it was making a terrible sound from the engine compartment. I got there and lifted the hood, and the entire thing was PACKED SOLID with pine cones from the trees surrounding the parking lot. I mean, PACKED. Like jammed in. It took me almost an hour to clear them out. The noise was the fan hitting pine cones.Comment
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WillTravelForFood That’s not it, but that’s what it looked like!
We live (and she works) in a rural suburban neighborhood. So, deer eat gardens and shrubbery, bears tear up the garbage, squirrels and chipmunks sometimes get in the house. Once we had a squirrel fall down the chimney and run all through the house leaving little ashy squirrel prints everywhere. We had to hire a service to clean everything.Last edited by Mosca; January 27, 2022, 05:11 PM.
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Every December, we have a Men's Squirrel Pie Lunch at our church. The women stage their own function in a different room, the Ladies' Tasteful Luncheon.Comment
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Oak Smoke Only a small inner group of organizers for the event are involved in preparing the pie. It looks and tastes remarkably like a homemade chicken pot pie, but we are told that there are at least traces of squirrel in it. The rest of the meal is potluck.
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My dad has had this issue, both at his house (they live at 7200’ in the mountains) as well as at the lake.
He leaves the hood of the truck up about 1/3 of the way with a rope and a milk crate to keep squirrels at rats out of the engine bay. He’s had to have repairs 3 times, but once he started leaving the hood open, knock on wood, he hasn’t had an issue.
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I have to thin the herd annually here, They’ve gotten into all my vehicles. fortunately no real damage other than squirrel urine and droppings.Comment
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Oak Smoke I do not think you will be successful with a shotgun. And if you manage to get one I doubt if there will be any left over to add to the menu.Comment
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Argoboy I bought this gun from an old man 40 years ago. I was looking for a 410, the old man said he had one that he never shot. I told him I would take it as soon as he quoted me a price. I was speechless when he brought it to me. It was a new gun! It had the original box of shells he bought with it, there were 7 missing. The serial no. Shows it was made in 1956.Last edited by Oak Smoke; January 28, 2022, 01:51 PM. -
Yes those are sweet guns, why Winchester decided to call a model 12 shotgun in .410 a model 42 I do not know. I read that the Remington 870 was almost as good and a lot cheaper to buy and that was end of these guns. My brother in law has a couple of them and he would love to have one with the original box.
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They've torn shingles of my mothers house numerous times and gotten inside.
Didn't help the roofers didn't patch the holes in the roof so the squirrels knew exactly where to go to get in every fall.
Last guy put in a metal patch problem solved.
Its the mice that get our wiring, little jerks.
Go out and get a few a the little dicks for me.Comment
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Chicken of the tree!
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Growing up in Blue Ridge country the opening of squirrel hunting season was practically a State holiday. Shot many and ate many. Up here in WI they are rarely hunted and accordingly the deer and turkey hunting woods I frequent are annoyingly thick with them. And we all know urban song bird lovers/feeders are at constant war with squirrels, which I find humorous Typically kind, gentle, bird loving folks go all Bill Murray from Caddyshack on them . . . . and usually fail.
Me, I am at peace with them, purposely feed them in my feeders, and very much enjoy watching them frolic about. So far never an issue with them in the house/attic, nesting in cars, or chewing of wires. Only issue I see by feeding them is I have created a Golden Corral buffet for the local hawk and owl population. But the squirrels are pretty good at avoiding overhead predators.Comment
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