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Bait for grey squirrels ?
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Can anyone suggest a readily available suitable bait to assist in trapping grey squirrels ?
During the winter and until the end of last month I was trapping them beside my pheasant feeders.
I had great results using a No4 Fenn trap sited in a tunnel.The success rate has tailed off of late.I appreciate that without a readily available source of food the little buggers will wander in search of a food source around a bit more.

However any suggestions are very welcome.
 
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Peanut butter
 
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Our grey squirrels in northeast Alabama will tear a birdfeeder apart to get to the sunflower seeds inside. They prefer, as do the birds, the smaller black oil sunflower seeds. When I am around they make excellent targets for my old Remington 511.
 
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Thank for your suggestions guys and happy hunting.
 
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Where I live, I kill one and fifty comes to his funeral Mad Ole Miss is right on target; Sunflower seeds. Put out a few Peanuts (in the shell) to add to the mayhem. They will become extinct in your immediate area in short order Big Grin LDK


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Take a 5 gallon bucket, fill it half full of water. Put some sunflower seeds in it, put a plank up to the edge of it. Presto, there is the best squirrel trap there is. Just pull them out the next day,drowned.
 
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When we lived in Goshen,NY we had squirrel problems so I fixed up a little treat for them.I took a teaspoon full of peanut butter & coated some dried tabasco pepper pieces with the peanut butter & set it on the porch railing where they like to congregate.I watched a squirrel eat the special treat ,he ran up the big maple tree rubbing his gums and cheeks,didn't have to contend with squirrels crapping and getting into everything after several of them ate my special treats.
 
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I tried the peanut butter.It worked a treat.I have got 124 of the little buggers so far this year.
My trapping was put aside for the summer as I have a host of pheasants to look after.
Howver I like the idea of the 5 gallon drum and the sunflower seeds.
Thanks 69deer.
 
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