You need to get into Falconry.

 

I wish I had the time. I’d get them working on the bluejays too!

 

Back in the day I used to us e two pennies Rubbing the edge of one across the Lincoln Memorial on the back. Takes a little practice but it works. There are other variations of this method.

Bob

 

Heeerrreee squirrel-squirrel-squirrel-squirrel!!! 🤣

Don’t know about calls but my uncle had the same problem when I was a kid - he just found something they liked more than the nuts, fed them that and was able to get the nuts he wanted also. Also shot everyone he could when they came into his bait station/feeder. Corn worked for him and the first year he shot over 100 of them with his silenced .22 lr off his porch. But I’m guessing some of the air guns available would do the same.

 

That’s not a bad idea! I think I’ll lay out some corn 30 yards from a blind. That’ll get the bluejays in range too!

 

You can take 2 quarters and rub the ribs of one coin against the edge of the other coin, cupped in the palm of your hand, to make a sound like squirrels cutting on acorns.

 

Here's the call I use to get a squirrel to move or stop for a shot:

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The Primos call makes a variety of squirrel vocalizations. There are demos on YouTube. Have you thought about setting a ground blind? Could be a fun time.

 

I’m using a blind in between Hazelnut trees. Several have died from 12 gauge lead poisoning but there’s at least 3 that have figured out that they are engaged in a deadly game. I have 2 rows of hazelnuts about 600’ long. There’s 2 tree’d fence lines that go to a 5 acre forest. We have hawks and owls but they aren’t doing a good job! Even my dogs have killed at least 3 this year.

 

...Between the squirrels and bluejays one year we got zero hazelnuts and heartnuts. I have well over 120 trees (hazelnuts, heartnuts, butternuts, chestnuts etc)

I HATE bluejays. This is what more than 40% of my apples look like this year 🤬

 

Last year and the year before, I had about 30% of my apples destroyed like in your picture. Thats where they quench their thirst after eating my hazelnuts. They are really good at disappearing from one tree to the next.

 

Well what I would do and I’m not you is get an outdoor chase lounger and a 12 pack of your favorite beverage and a pellet gun. Lay back in the lounger and just start shooting away. This method has worked very well at my house.

 

Oh by the way it keeps the neighbors away too

 

I had a squirrel call when I was a kid. Not many squirrel hunters anymore. Not sure if they still make one.

 

Available in Canada too.

 

Available in Canada too.

They ain’t cheap!

 

yea a prepper trick is to put a rat trap in a bottomless box and screw to a tree. bait with peanut butter. if thers a tail hanging out you eat. lol

my state doesnt allow trapping them, so check your regs

 

i just chuck at them with my mouth. sucking threw teeth n cheek. sometimes they are territorial and come looking for the intruder. that with mostly spot n stalk is how i do it these days. 22 in the head best way if your looking for sport. if your after food a load of 4s in a 12 or 20 does nicely.

 

tree limb snares could be an option for you too.

 

I’m thinking about a mount

 

I was raised squirrel hunting a lot. I have heard it’s just hard to tell how many times squirrels making every sound a squirrel makes. And never not once have I witnessed a squirrel come to another squirrel barking crying or chewing on a hickory nut or cuttings falling. They called me in though lol.

Now a hawk or any bird of prey fly by or call. And they hide right now.

You might but I doubt your going to do better than what your doing. A 12 gauge and just being there is a pretty big deterrent. I would probably bail on the blind. If it were me I’d rather they see me and be scared off. These old hillbilly squirrels feed at daybreak and late evenings. I would slip every morning and evening I could with that shotgun. Once they learn that guy is going to hurt me. Then maybe scare crows might help.

Good Luck.

 

Unfortunately, they are bold. One day I unloaded both barrels at one at 60 yards (skeet and imp cyl). I am happy to just scare them and keep them at bay. An hour later, walking back home he scoots in front of me. I think I’ll start bating them. They aren’t on the ground during the day much. On occasion they are and they get treed by 3 Malinois or my male Mal catches them and gives them a love shake.

 

Never used it but I’ve heard this one works well.

Amazon.com : Haydel's Game Calls Inc. SW-92 AMZ Mr. Squirrel Whistle Squirrel Call for Hunting : Sports & Outdoors

Amazon.com : Haydel's Game Calls Inc. SW-92 AMZ Mr. Squirrel Whistle Squirrel Call for Hunting : Sports & Outdoors

www.amazon.com

 

Calls work in a manner of fashion. I use the "Primos" bellows type call. Tap it and it "barks", and it can also be manipulated to make a distress squeal. It doesn't call them in but it will cause them to peek around a limb to see what is making the commotion.

I still hunt squirrels with a 22. When they scamper to hide on the far side of a tree/limb....the calls (bark first then if that doesn't work the squeal) can coax them out for a shot.

 

Boo, are all of your squirrels black, or only this one?

Here in middle/north Georgia, we mostly have Gray squirrels which can vary in a few different shades, but black is rare around here. In Louisiana, they have both Gray and Fox squirrels. The Fox squirrels are generally bigger than the Grays, and are the color of the one pictured in the nut-squeeze picture.

 

They are both black phase and grey phase Grey Squirrels. We have a season but like black bears we are permitted to kill them if they destroy property or livestock without paperwork, permits etc. we have 5 different squirrels in Ontario but I’ve only seen Grey and Red Squirrels.

 

You may want to look into getting a PCP air gun like a Benjamin Marauder in .22. Quiet with pinpoint accuracy out to 50 yards. Shotguns work great but there is too much waiting time for things to quiet down after a shot. I had greys in the apple trees earlier in the summer. One morning's effort took care of a bunch.

 

Another vote for the Primos. As someone else said, I don’t know that it’s ever called a squirrel to me, but it can get them to show themselves.
They do have a taste for yellow acorns.

 

Try one of the Owl decoys, will need to be moved so that the prey don't get accustomed. The newer versions have movement sensors and let out a screech when triggered.

 

Good friends! I have to remember that nature gives..and also sometimes takes something back 😉

 

A Milwaukee Train Horn with a remote will scare whatever is in your orchard...pricey, but so much satisfaction watching the destructor flee.

 

A Milwaukee Train Horn with a remote will scare whatever is in your orchard...pricey, but so much satisfaction watching the destructor flee.

A method that will definitely work and endear you to your neighbors at the same time. 😁

 

I had a terrible bout of Squirrel Destruction a few years back. Started "baiting them with dried corn still on the cob and peanut butter.
Gamo at 1300 FPS and a good Vortex with a solid mount. Thus endeth the squirrel problems. I start seeing them in the fruit trees, out comes the Gamo.

 

Don, send em a message even a tree rat will understand 🤭.
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Or ya could just mess with em by launchin em. Maybe practice skeet 🤣

I get immense satisfaction seein this 😁.