Is this enough to kill a squirrel?

A general word to the wise....In many areas squirrels are NOT considered nuisance animals and are subject to seasonal regs. Worse, trapping may even be more restrictive and/or subject to quirky rules.

After relocating 27 trapped squirrels to a local park from his 1/4 acre urban lot over the course of last summer, my father had a little run-in with the VA game commission. Nothing serious, but it was made clear that trapping was not a practice he should continue.

No need to smoke me, I know where you guys are coming from...Just suggestion to take care and exercise due discretion.
 
Doublenaughtspy,

The Beeman P3 (photo in the original post) is a single stroke pneumatic. I'm not sure what you saw in the catalog, but it wasn't a P3.

Cheers,

John
 
Beeman P3

Originally posted by DNS:

Twoblink, I saw the gun you have pictured in the Cabela's catalog. It says it is a CO2 cartridge gun. I don't think that is a good way to go since the velocities of the rounds start to trail off after a few shots. Your 410 fps won't last for many shots
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Hello DNS,

Cabellas Catolog is wrong. I have the Beeman P3.
The P3 is a single-shot, single pump, pneumatic, .177 cal pellet gun.

This air-pistol is very accurate and it has an excellent trigger.

I can regularly hit a small aspirin bottle at 60 ft. with it.

-Mk.IV
 
If you're just wanting to keep them off your feeder, mix some red pepper in with the seed. Keeps the squirrels away, but the birds don't mind. Of course, then you have to come up with a new excuse to get the pistol.
 
"***A general word to the wise ...***"

I understand your point. But in MY area squirrels are major pains-in-the-a$$, and my policy, abetted by the spouse, is to send them to little squirrely heaven right now.

This is NOT hunting in the usual sense, but simple varmit control - as in preventing the destruction of private property, specifically aviary-related items, flora, and other backyard habitat produced by the wife's hard labors. YMMV.
 
Tree rats, sky rats, whatever. Get something with better than 450 fps with good sights. Shoot, shovel, shut-up. Good luck. M2
 
OK, you all think I live where you guys live.. I don't.

I live in Kalifornia, Pasadena, in an apartment. I'm on the first floor. I have a large patio, and a big tree right over the fencing. So I'm squirrel central, the squirrels need my fence to get to the other apartments. I _had_ plants, all of them eaten. I'm thinking about buying more, but not until I'm convinced that the squirrel will not eat them. Now I don't want to kill it, but I really don't know why not. The ones around here have bubonic plague I think, and just eat everything in sight. I mean, last time, he's eating my flowers, and I'm shooting him with soft pellets, and he's doing this hiss/nibbling sound at me with it's teeth.

Now the problem is going to be, if I pelt it a few times, and the squirrels are not like the crows that learn rather quickly, then I either have to never own plants again, or else take it out.

I think a side shot from a Beeman P3 will kill it. Head shot might not, unless I hit the nose or mouth. The fence from my door is about 15 paces, so 5 yards. I can hit it, no problem, and almost no velocity loss on the pellet.

Yesterday, I shot it _8_ times with soft pellets and it still came back. So I'm thinking I might have to take it out. The only question is, will a P3 do it humanely?

As much as I'd love to bust out the .22LR on him, I can't. Apartment... Also, apartments behind me where I'm aiming.

Will .22LR buckshot kill him??


Albert.
 
Trap it or poison it!

Home Depot has what you need.

If your backstop is other apartments, you don't want to shoot at it with a pellet gun or a .22!

-Mk.IV
 
I'll lump my 2 cents in with the kill 'em and eat 'em crowd. I've been squirrel hunting for about 15 years now and Squirrel gravy with sratch biscuits is one of my favorite meals.
They way I see it you've got the equivalent of a stocked pond of cornfed fish. :p
They are tough bastards though and hearing a squirrel yelp and scream after getting shot in the ribs hard enough to break them but not penetrate the skin is kinda unpleasant. So I don't think that just smacking them is a very humane thing to do.
If you want to have fun, get an air rifle and put a ghillie suit on and perch in an upstairs window facing the pests. Pretty soon you'll think you're Carlos Hathcock. ;)
 
600fps ++++

Squirrels are soccer balls...rabbits are ballons.
I'm talking about toughness here.

A Beeman P-3 is a super accurate paper puncher...that's all!
Don't go wounding animals with one.

Perfect weapon for the job...benjamen-Sheraton...blue or silver streak.

Roughly $120.

.20 cal...use crow magnum pellets....8 to 12 pumps...lights out tree rat.

Target the MO, or the brain pan between the ear and eye but slightly higher. They have a complex face and frontal head system...that you can wound about 12 different ways and still not kill it. Shoot out it's eye and it will be back in two weeks with the nickname blinky!

The lung shot is "very" effective as well.

600 feet per second please....or more.

JMO,

Stocky
 
Not necessarily true

F=ma, this is for you. In most areas, any animal, with exception given to any endangered species, that is damaging property may be disposed of. We had (and still have, as if they stopped) beavers chewing a dock at our camp and we called the game warden and they said whatever animal is damaging the property may be killed without worry. Just thought I'd pass that along.
 
Sorry for the mistaken identity. I had seen the post and later seen the Cabella's catalog and the gun in the catalog looked like the gun pictured above - if you were only comparing a cursory memory against the picture of a Gamo PT-80 in the catalog with a similar trigger guard, both black, pointing the same way, AND both rated with the same 410 fps. Apparently, the 410 fps rating convinced me that the guns were in fact the same. My bad.

Either way, I would still go with a pellet rifle.
 
"...Not necessarily true..."

Brandon_h3: Thanks for the clarification....My father said that the warden kinda implied that taking them out was ok, just don't get caught trapping them (even if you plan to let them go elsewhere).

If I were you twoblink, first I'd pick up the Beeman and a pellet trap, practice in the apartment, then make a judgement on your backstop (note: the above order is important). If it's a highly developed area, and unless you can get him lined up along your back fence, my suggestion would be to go with poison....God help you if some busybody cathes a glipse of you plugging squirrels with a black handgun.

But you gotta buy the thing to make a valid determination...
 
No problem

F=ma, not a problem. Had we told the game warden we wanted to trap the beaver, that would have been different. It would imply we were trapping them for their fur. Most of the time if an animal is damaging your property you can rest assured that removing that animal won't be against the law, just make sure to use legal methods of removal. (i.e. don't use dynamite to rid your urban yard of moles) :D
 
A wise man once said,
"They're like the vietcong...varmintcong. So what you got to do...you got to fall back on superior firepower and superior intelligence. And that's all she wrote."

--Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in Caddyshack
 
Two Blink you have a challenging situation at Hand.

A squirrel recently ate my wifes orchid plants and my grill propane tank hose ($70.00 replacement) Wife gave me the green light for squirrel destruction. I used CCI CBs in my 94/22. Any bolt action/ lever action .22 will be extremely quiet with these. rib shot and the squirrel rolls once and dies. I burry him in the garbage can.

Your situation, get a large box and fill it with newspapers, place it on the ground on your patio, put a small pile of cracked corn in front of it. This will act as bait and a backstop. Use the CBS they are quieter than a BB Gun.
Shoot them at dawn when they come out to look for food and before too many nosey neighbors are up.

Good hunting
 
Use traps

Once we had trouble with squirrels so we baited rat traps and when one got caught we'd beat it with a shovel. Works every time, and is almost completly silent.
 
Land Mines would work!! Just kidding!

I think you will have to kill them to stop them.

We have feeders out and I have had to kill dozens over the years. I actually enjoy wasting the little tree rats myself.

I would try the pellet gun and as long as they die eventually who cares. If you kill it right there you have to dispose of it.

If you wound it and it dies later no one can say who shot it and you don't have to mess with it.

I use a .22 rifle but I live in the country. I hate having to flick the dead carcasse into the woods but the little rats dump $5.00 worth of seed when they take the feeders apart. It's not like they are endangered so I would off them!!

It is a great way to practice shooting. I hope you can get them without anyone seeing you. A lot of animal rights idiots would blame you not the squirrels. Just waste them quick and quiet!

Nobody hates squirrels, and many other furry little creatures for that matter, until they destroy their property. Then it's amazing how they change their little minds.

It seems that way about the gun issue in general. If they are fortunate and never get attacked, or know someone who has, they are less likely to think guns are important. If they have been exposed to violence, it is likely they will have changed their mind.
 
Twoblink..enjoy the P3 for target shooting. It's really accurate. With suitable pellet trap its quiet and lw powered enough for an indoor range. Forget about killing the squirrel with it. Except for an eye shot you'll just pi## him off. I've chased them off with a little R7 that makes about 600fps. and at 20-25yds only a head shot will kill. An air rifle that makes 800+fps is needed for clean kill with body shot in my experience.
good shootin', dog
 
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