The test. Mirookoo.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

No difference in numbers on my patch but have had some fat lads....

[Stavross 16,107]

We’ve got loads on the shoot, I haven’t kept count of how many I’ve shot this year because I just shoot them mainly off the feeders as I’m going round on the quad, but it’s a lot, I’ll be taking a few young guns from the shoot in February for a squizzer shoot and drey blasting 

Edited December 24, 2021 by Stavross

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Speaking to an estate owner today he is furious about how the squirrels have all but destroyed the hornbeam trees on the place.

I remember seeing dozens of squirrels nibbling on them in September. Had many a firefight in the hornbeam me!

[Stavross 16,107]

They have wrecked trees up at the shoot, even ring barking a couple and killing them, forestry don’t seem to do anything about them, maybe it just comes down to time and money, if I take on the keepering next season I think I’ll put a few squirrel feeder up, might as well have a bit of fun while I’m up there

[Alsone 789]

On 24/12/2021 at 21:34, Stavross said:

They have wrecked trees up at the shoot, even ring barking a couple and killing them, forestry don’t seem to do anything about them, maybe it just comes down to time and money, if I take on the keepering next season I think I’ll put a few squirrel feeder up, might as well have a bit of fun while I’m up there

1/2 the porblem is the urban antis out cry these days about killing squirrels as they see them as cuddly things you can tame and feed in the park. They don't know the damage they do nor the fact that unless the greys are eliminated the reds are finished.

It's probably really not woke to shoot squirrels anymore.

 

[Dervburner 2,549]

9 hours ago, Alsone said:

1/2 the porblem is the urban antis out cry these days about killing squirrels as they see them as cuddly things you can tame and feed in the park. They don't know the damage they do nor the fact that unless the greys are eliminated the reds are finished.

It's probably really not woke to shoot squirrels anymore.

 

They’ll never be “eliminated” and that’s one of the reasons. The best we can do is try to control their numbers, and enjoy the sport while we’re at it

[Alsone 789]

4 hours ago, Dervburner said:

They’ll never be “eliminated” and that’s one of the reasons. The best we can do is try to control their numbers, and enjoy the sport while we’re at it

I agree. This side of finding a disease that targets only Greys and is deadly or this side of every landowner, private and public being forced to trap, shoot or poisen them out of existence the reds will never be back. Pockets of shooting and removal can't be effective becasue as with everythign else, they just move back in from other areas.