Calling all suburban snipers

[TFox2112]

Wife threatens to give away all my firearms incuuding the safe if I shoot squirrells in the back yard. Too bad... tasty little critters. I have to settle for the sheer entertainment value of my squirrell "exercisers". wait until there are a couple (or more) on the feeders and then "release the hounds"

[CJS3]

You didn't think they would just "take it", did ya

[ericire12]

You didn't think they would just "take it", did ya

Those commie squirrel bastards!

[Teresa Heilevang]

Had the cute little creatures in the house!  Didn't do too much damage.  Got a live trap and at last count had transplanted 12 to new homes several miles from mine.  Would have shot them but I don't think my wife would have liked holes in everything (would have had to use a .22 - no pellet gun)!!!!!!!!

Richard

I'd of transplanted them ........right into my skillet with some hot biscuits and gravy and fried potatoes .
yummy..... one of my favorites...

[ericire12]

I'd of transplanted them ........right into my skillet with some hot biscuits and gravy and fried potatoes .
yummy..... one of my favorites...

They are great grilled too.

[Sponsor]

[ericire12]

I had to take out a woodpecker today that had been harassing my trees all morning.

[brosometal]

Its amazing.  You give a rat a bushy tail and they are cute and good to eat.  BBQ raccoon is much tastier, and you can bait them with cat food.

[m25operator]

I've had to rewire my phone lines twice due to squirrel damage in the attic. So first I got this.



Air Force Talon SS, 22, using Beeman Kodiak, 21.8 grn pellets, it shoots really well, 3/4" 5 shot groups at 50 yards.
But is too loud. And up close, the scope is too high above the muzzle, 25yard zero, it shoots 8" low at 20'.

Now I use a TC Contender carbine in .22lr, using Aquila, Colibri's, 20 grn bullet at 300 fps, very quiet, like using a suppressor, and put behind the ear, or in the back of the neck, drops them with one shot. I'm up to 68 squirrels in the last 3 years.

Being urban tree rats I just chunk them, although my wife has forgotten to put up the bird food, and I've got some fat squirrels due that, may be good eating.

[Big Frank]

jumbofrank,

The best way to deal with this is to photocopy the law and have several copys available.  When a officer turned lawyer challeges you, politely but firmly show him the law.  Cooperate, but be firm.  You may even wish to contact the commanding officer with your complaint.  Most officers will relize the error of their ways, and the ones that don't are the donkeyholes you suspect they are.
I lived in a relatively small town where the actual law was being ignored for various officer interpretation.  When, as a group my friends and I challeged (politely again) the status quo the matter was rectified.  It cost a friend an hour or so in jail, but the resulting rebuke of the officer from the judge was classic. 

Ultimately, it is the measure of your willingness to challege the uniformed uninformed with something as silly as the above.  If you wish to take the steps, you can change climate in your neck of the woods so you can paint up a couple of offending squirrels.

Even when I tell the police what page something is on and they read it in their own book they say things like,"well I don't think that's what it means". I had that problem while trying to register 3 handguns. And after having a few knives confiscated or destroyed I finally have proof that they were legal. I'm not spending several hundred dollars on a lawyer to sue some a-hole for a $140 knife. But the next time I will let them arrest me if I have that much time to kill. My experience with several state and local police makes it seem like none of them have any idea at all what the gun and knife laws are.

I heard that city squirrels taste like crap. They must eat garbage or something like that to affect the taste. .22 CB caps are quieter than some pelet guns. CCI makes them in a Long version that's easier to use in most .22s.

[tombogan03884]

Even when I tell the police what page something is on and they read it in their own book they say things like,"well I don't think that's what it means". I had that problem while trying to register 3 handguns. And after having a few knives confiscated or destroyed I finally have proof that they were legal. I'm not spending several hundred dollars on a lawyer to sue some a-hole for a $140 knife. But the next time I will let them arrest me if I have that much time to kill. My experience with several state and local police makes it seem like none of them have any idea at all what the gun and knife laws are.

I heard that city squirrels taste like crap. They must eat garbage or something like that to affect the taste. .22 CB caps are quieter than some pelet guns. CCI makes them in a Long version that's easier to use in most .22s.

Many cities use oaks for street trees, squirrel's eat the acorns which are high in tannic acid and makes the meat bitter. Freinds have mentioned the same thing with deer.