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I thought squirel are game animals in all of USA

If you think the squirrels are bad, wait until the birds find the peaches.

Pears sent.

Over the last 25 years I have found and blocked [with boards and sheet rock screws] 50 places where Douglas Fir squirrels gnawed their way into my house to store philberts [hazelnuts].

The solution was to buy a trap
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BPAVCG
And bait it with shelled peanuts with peanut butter on the outside of the shells.

Once they are in the trap, you can shoot them with a pellet gun, and they stop gnawing.

erickg ^^^^^^for the win. #110 conibear.

Spray the trees with DDT, squirrels hate that !

#6 shot does wonders

Hide the can opener...

Good approach. I would recommend pecan trees and increase squirrel population. Damn good eating. For protection of the peach tree, a rat Terrier works.

Then Wabi you could have fried squirrel for dinner with peach cobbler for desert! Enjoy!

Skirrel gravy mmmmm

Have you tried an owl ? A plastic owl decoy up a 15-20ft pole will shy off a lot of critters.

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After 45 years with the local power company, I can tell you they rarely escape a good solid dose of voltage. Get an electric fence setup & modify it to fit your application.

A Have a Heart trap baited with corn will catch them easy. Relocate them wherever you want. I have relocated 6 this past month. I relocate them to an area that I like to hunt.

Nothing short of death will discourage them long-term. I usually spend the morning on the deck with my coffee and chase them off by clapping my hands and shouting “NO!”. Sometimes I have to get up and start towards them. All in all though, the losses to my very-productive Elberta tree are minimal and tolerable. It produces so many that we can’t eat them all in a year, and we freeze, dry, juice, and make leather. The newest tree on the other side of the house is a Redhaven, and is just getting started. They get most of those. I may net it this year since it’s still small.

I feed the squirrels and birds: corn, black oil seed, and peanuts. Many of the squirrels and bluejays come to my whistle and even uncalled will approach me looking for a handout. One even follows me and waits while I go into the garage for peanuts. One in particular, Jack, short for Jackass, comes up on the deck and eats peanuts right next to my chair. The little bastard is very particular, often rejecting the first couple or three until one meets his approval.

I expect a real struggle this year to keep any nuts from my three native hazelnut bushes. Just got a few last year from the first crop. They’re still small enough to easily net, so I’ll do that. Looks like there may be a good many. They’re netted right now to protect the catkins that pollenate the female flowers. The deer will hit those hard otherwise.

My mentor in this was Lou Crosley, Powell's brother. He retired early from Crosley (radios, autos, fridges) and found a small plot in their native College Hill and became an organic farmer. He had an orchard with all manner of fruit trees. His plot was next to my grandfathers house. He and I were best buddies from age 3 on.

Lou would take sewer tile (4inch PVC would do now) and strap it to a horizontal limb and then place a combination of D-Con rat poison and suet in the pipe. It did a pretty good job of keeping the squirrels out.

It was fun growing up with a guy like that. Next to the orchard was the test plot for the Cincinnati Reds. The ground crew would come out and plant whatever seed they were experimenting with and I got to play on Cincinnati Reds turf.

If you can't shoot em, can't trap em then this

Just that^^^

I net my peach tree. The squirrels get in and go crazy trying to get out. Its fun watching them get tangled up and untangling themselves.