Pick a good area for a killing field - in range of a pellet rifle when seated in a comfortable chair at a table used as a bench rest. In the target area, put a bird feeder filled with bird seed. Enjoy the hunting! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

The best shot is right behind the ear - makes 'em really goofy just before they go to sqirrel heaven. If you have a tree in a good kill zone, the ear shot makes 'em do really funny things from height. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Frank

I wish I had a squirrel problem <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> My pellet gun would be great for that sort of thing.

Whadduya got for black widow spiders <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Used to have a motorhome... squirrels loved to pile nuts on top of the intake manifold.. All the little pockets designed into the top makes a perfect nut storage bin <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

But the grossest invasion was in an old Subaru I was no longer driving much.. Got in it one day turned the heater on and this dead animal smell came out, along with a bad vibration in the heater motor.. kind of like a scaled down version of your washing machine spin cycle with the wash all bunched up on one side..

A mouse had worked it way down into the fresh air vent and passed into the great cheese land inside the heater blower squirrel cage.. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />

Turning the heater on put the mouse in the spin cycle.. although he was already pretty dried out..

Decided from that day forward the number of vehicles I can have sitting around WILL be defined by how many I can squeeze in the detached garage.. And the garage doors have to be able to close! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />

Last invasion is bats.. not that I mind the bats so much, but the guano (nice name for poop) raining below their roost gets to be a bit gross. First in the garage gable vents.. Screened over the outside of both vents to keep them roosting in the vent slats, then they moved into the house gable vent.. That one is about 30 feet off the ground and can't reach it to screen the outside.. So a little ingenuity <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> from inside the attic involving the use of about 450 nails to close off the vent slats on the outside so far has fixed that invasion. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

btw tried all kinds of sprays and stuff sprayed from inside of the vents to drive the bats away when I was ready to screen off the vents. They are prime carriers of rabies and wasn't too keen about being bitten by one.. Nothing seemed to phase them until I decided to try spraying them with 409 cleaner.. Something in the 409 drove them uh.. batty. They took off like a bat out of hell.

409, huh? I wonder if that will keep the birds from nesting in my front entry area. I've tried everything, including pepper spray <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> My wife tried wasp foam the other day and that kept them away for about 36 hours. We spray off their nestbuilding attempts 3-4 times a day. They are relentless.

Does your truck sit for long periods of time Capn'?

Yup...I drive it maybe once a month.

You could make some mini spike strips like they use on commercial buildings. Take aluminum foil and thumb tacks and make some for the most problematic areas. It's fun watching them landing on a little thumbtack they can't see <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

+1 on the pellet rifle.

you'll shoot your eye out.