Eat mo' squirrel

Xisico B-50 or B-51. Pitch the stock shroud and install an RWS shroud. Your neighbors might even ask you to shoot squirrels in their yard as well.

I'd love to, but that would land me in jail here in NJ.

I used to shoot pigeons here with my neighbors' encouragement and my Crossman CO2 converter on my 1911 .45, but those neighbors are long gone.

I do have a big Havahart trap, which may be my answer. But next year I'm cutting back a border growth of little maples, which they jumped from, and I'm installing a big cat/squirrel collar on the tree.

Worse, I think NJ has even outlawed suppressed air guns in spite of the fact that the ATF got their ass handed to them in court when Cocker appealed.

I meant Crooker.

Count your blessings, at least you don't have deer troulbe

I have A LOT of venison recipies

Karl

You have my sympathies. I had the EXACT same thing happen (dwarf peach,

Since then I've also had to deal with birds and use a net - brought to the trunk and tied. Squirrels & chipmunks could chew through, but don't.

Bob

AHA! I've heard about those nets. I'll have to look into getting one. Thanks for the tip.

On 9/15/2014 6:34 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: suppressed air guns ???

Yep. Lots of the higher power ones are made that way. The hammer is louder on my 900FPS NP (with lead / over 1200FPS with alloy) than the noise out of the barrel, and the sound of a pellet hitting a gopher is louder than that. My neighbors don't even know when I am target practicing with it unless they see me.

Even some of the bigger bore PCPs are suppressed.

Most call it a shroud, but if it's a chamber with vents from the muzzle it suppresses. Some are better than others. Lots of Xisico owners modify one off an RWS because it works better.

Ed,

With your recipe you can turn that trap into a haveameal trap

John

The damned horses in the back lot got all my grapes from the back vine. Then I found some on the side vine and the damned birds got 99% of those before me. I'm about to go nuclear here.

I don't hunt (yet), but I love nice, gamy venison. Yum! Tried some raindeer from a restaurant and it tasted like cheap hamburger. Just horrible. Only _then_ did they tell me it was farm-raised, the bastids. Never again! Purina Deer Chow my ASS!@

Ha! Yes, I was thinking about that...

I recently trapped 4 raccoon in 5 days, still trying to get more. The squirrels know exactly when fruit gets ripe, your watching it, it's almost ready and then those %#$&^*% got almost the whole tree.

Mikek

In NJ, an air gun is treated like any other gun. And no suppressors are allowed. They're treated as our state equivalent of Title II weapons.

Yes, this state has a deer population about as dense as our people population, but they rarely get into my fenced back yard. A neighbor down the street, though, watches them take down the apples from his little tree every year.

My old boss at Wasino in NJ (now Amada Machine Tools, in the Chicago 'burbs) had $23,000 worth of landscaping done to his yard, and the deer ate all of it within two months.

That's exactly what happened here. On Friday, I counted 26 peaches, and they were within days of being ripe. On Saturday morning, I had 2 peaches.

You are referring to the suppressor(title II), right.

And you have to register a BB gun???

To be fair a .25 PCP "BB Gun" can easily drop a deer at 50 yards, and the larger Sam Yang 9mm, has been used for bigger game in Africa. They make them upto .50 cal, and a neighbor of mine has been working on air operated automatic cannon with military applications. (well a couple sections over)

We don't have to register any guns, but you need a FOID to buy any gun including a BB gun. For a handgun, you also need a permit to purchase, which is de facto registration. That applies to airguns as well.