Squirrel Trap----Catch and Release

[Toby Bradshaw]

II had a lot of trouble with racoons for a while tearing up my bird feeders so I trapped six when I got tired of shooting them.

 

[wwbrown]

Rat traps attached vertically to trees with bait pan down, put peanut butter on the bait pan. Cheaper than conibears but have similar results.

 

[Pete Roberson]

If you didn't need them alive this works great.
Take a 5 gal. pail fill about half full with water then cover the water with
sun flower seeds.
Run a 4' board from the ground to the top of the pail with a few seeds.
Leave alone for a couple days, you'll have 4-6 squirrels each time.

 

[Deleted outa08]

Havahart with Peanut Butter, have fun...

ditto.

 

[carlsbad]

Most states don't allow relocation of wild animals without a license but they do allow you to kill them on your own property. Trap and bludgeon is usually legal. I just use a PCP pellet gun and nobody is the wiser. Crows have quit landing in my back yard.

--Jerry

 

[C.E.Smith043]

Havahart with Peanut Butter, have fun...

^^^^This right here. Peanut butter is Squirrel cocaine. If they act a little shy, wire the door open for a couple days and let them feed from it first.

 

[Shawnba67]

Drowning things takes a bit of sociopath-y.
Its fairly quick and extremely effective, but dam man hold your breathe 10 seconds longer than comfortable. Id feel bad inflicting that amount of terror on something.
Guess im in the bonk em clan!

 

[1911nut]

Before you turn them loose out of the trap, tuck your pants into your socks

 

[Guewithane]

I have trapped maybe a thousand over the years. I use a small Havahart and bait it with sunflower seeds under a metal screen. One winter they had logged off about 50 acres across the road and I was catching and releasing 3 a day as long as we had crusty snow. We would drive them about 1.5 miles down the road and let them go in some big hemlock.
My wife says my daily record was 7. Once we would get a deep fluffy snowfall they couldn’t travel as well and things slowed up.
Now we have a grey fox living in the old barn and and you see a red squirrel one day then you don't see him again.
No trapping needed this year.

 

[Rube Shooter]

Most states don't allow relocation of wild animals without a license but they do allow you to kill them on your own property. Trap and bludgeon is usually legal. I just use a PCP pellet gun and nobody is the wiser. Crows have quit landing in my back yard.

--Jerry

+1 for Jerry's suggestion. My neighbor has a large pecan tree that draws squirrels in from down the block, I just watch for them to scurry across the power lines and stop on the power poles and drop them with my trusty crossman pellet rifle. I don't know how many I have killed over the years, but it never gets old.

 

[338 dude]

First things first-----not in a place where I can choot'em.

Anybody have a good experience with a catch and release trap in this size ?

Any information appreciated.

A. Weldy

Been using have a heart trap since I was a kid

 

[338 dude]

Drowning things takes a bit of sociopath-y.
Its fairly quick and extremely effective, but dam man hold your breathe 10 seconds longer than comfortable. Id feel bad inflicting that amount of terror on something.
Guess im in the bonk em clan!

Choot em!

 

[JJMoody]

Enjoy....