Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Keeping Squirrels Out of Peaches?

I'm thinking a hot wire, with a grounding wire?
Any ideas?

I use a pellet gun.

22LR with scope

I use a .22 but with the trees leafed out, they're very hard to see. They can sure ruin a lot of peaches.

Our Daughter lives in a city, I doubt she wants to shoot them.

Shoot em, or trap em and eat em, or let
somebody that can shoot em or trap em
and eat em do so.

IIRC Mepps still buys the tails

If you mean in the orchard wrap the tree trunks with tin so they can't climb the trees. If you mean in the cellar take away their jar opener.

I have a dozen fruit trees next to some larger shade trees. They jump from tree to tree so putting metal on them is useless.

I have some 110's out right now for the
varmint bushytails around the house.
Figured another spot that needs one, but
I'm gonna have to make some kind of
bracket to hold it on top of a pipe where
they run.

Just me- I look at it like what varmints eat
or dig up or mess on or otherwise ruin
for consumption might be a bite of food
that's needed by me or loved ones.
Varmints that take it away from me by whatever
they do get no mercy, and I don't give them
another opportunity to ruin things for me
or neighbors

Squirrels make a good stew or pot of dumplings

A live trap might work.

Perhaps Peaches could just keep her legs together.

Some time back I had an issue with squill getting in the bird feeder. I put a slinky spring on the post, sat back and laughed my ass off. Dunno how that would work with trees, but it's a thought to puzzle a bit.

Get you a big old tomcat, and tie it to the peach trees.

110 Conibears, 2x4's, roofing nails. Pretty simple and effective set up.

I haven’t read all the replies yet but has anyone mentioned napalm?…..😀

Plant almonds and peanuts instead of peaches and you’ll never have problems with squirrels in your peaches again.

110 or a wooden rat trap.

Ruger 17M2 for me

Fast & quiet

Depending on where the squirrels are located, they may be classed as game animals, so shooting or trapping them out of season might get you in trouble with the COs.

In Nebraska, they are considered game animals. I know this because I borrowed a Have A Heart live trap from the local CO and each time that I caught one he had to come and relocate it, as a civilian was only allowed to move a trapped game animal 100 yards or so. I don't know where he took them, but they never came back. If I'd had a big enough water container he would never have needed to relocate a live one, as I would never have had any success in catching them, at least as far as he'd know.

If I lived in the country the 17HM2 would be my first choice too.