peanut butter

Proper Squirrel Bait
 

Tried that, no rodents touched it .

I tried creamy, chunky and so on, maybe some specific brand is necessary ? .

Explosives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iR0sWU1HzTE

The Final Solution
 

I wish I could ! :P .

Can’t remember the explosive that has gained popularity. I think it’s teramite or something like that. You put it in place and it explodes when shot with a rifle. How does it get more fun than that?

brings back that vid of the gun nut fool that ended up with his leg blown off ... remember?

Blow guns work I understand. Not legal in California, best be careful. I can understand why they're banned. Those darts are 1/32 inch diameter, suckers are 4 inches long or so and I bet two inches would bury in your flesh if given the chance. I know when I put them in a sheet of 3/4 ply, I needed to use pliers to take it out. And silent. A real stealth weapon. I got pretty good aim up to about 30 feet.

I bought mine mail order maybe 2000, 2001 before they were outlawed. Was a 4 footer - 2 piece, joined in the middle. I killed maybe 5 - 6 pigeons once. A client had a bunch of them roosting on the power line below the 2nd story eaves of her neighbors house, they covered the sidewalk to the door in the backyard to the basement unit with pigeon poop. Under the eaves the darts couldn't sail out into the neighborhood. I felt a bit weird about it, but pigeons are classified like rats, no limitation on extermination. Suckers would bury into their chest, a minute later they'd fall off. Not once would one fly off from the commotion. Even with the several darts I buried into the wood. Fast asleep, must not worry about predators up there.

A buddy told me he saw a guy pin a squirrel to the eaves of a house one time. Went right through it and into the wood. Who knows. I did the math, the diameter of the dart would be a quarter inch if scaled up to my body size compared to a pigeon. Squirrel size would be similar. Would be about like an arrow for a human.

Creamy, mix in some bacon fat, rather the congealed grease droppings. Will catch rats, squirrels are harder to catch I gather, I know I've never trapped one, have trapped many rats.

You’re on the right track. “Thermite” is a mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxide powder. Iron oxide is rust. When thermite ignites it burns quickly at extremely high temperatures. It will burn through thick steel, for example. And fuggetabout extinguishing it. Pure, unoxidized powdered aluminum alone is dangerous. Aluminum is extremely thirsty for oxygen but in the absence of oxygen is pretty benign. Almost all aluminum we see in our daily lives has a microscopic oxidized layer.

I prefer not to get on a BATF watch list, but a search for aluminum powder will get you lots of how-to projects, some of which are a free ticket to federal penitentiary.

Rodent Bait
 

Thank you ! .

I'll give that a go .

I tried the bucket and water trap so many use, never caught even a mouse in it .

Funny thing in the world of rat traps. You know the old saying, build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door .... it's weird, but the Victor model that I think is best is not sold in most hardware stores. I get a box of 10 or 12 from Amazon for around $30.

https://i.postimg.cc/fRjXGKbG/Victor.jpg

My crudely drawn arrow points to a small rectangular open box of sorts, you can put the peanut butter-bacon fat mix in that, won't roll off as it will somewhat when put on flat part. I put a little on the flat part as well, my thought is more surface area = more scent. I've seen people put a nice tidy arrow on photos, I use Paint, they don't have an arrow you can drag and drop on your photo.

These are less prone to that lousy but common finding: the bait is gone but the trap unsprung. This compared to standard, older design with the small rectangular bit of metal with the little piece raised up to grab the hold down rod by the side. The platform is larger. They will tend to put one leg on it while reaching for the food. Better leverage for tripping the trap

There is nothing to catch on the yellow plastic thing, just the friction of the rod being pressed against the underside of the yellow plastic. I suspect they're referred to as the professional model because it's easier to nab your finger than with the standard model. Takes a bit or practice. They also have a smaller mouse trap model with the same design. The other brands aren't as good IMO.

unlike illegally shooting down drones ....

That's why you sit inside with a .22 loaded with subsonic shorts, a soda bottle with the end cut open taped to the end of the barrel as a suppressor with the window wide open and nothing sticking out of the house...

It's been a long time since I saw one inside or the poop .

That last time I don't recall what I had in my hand but I killed it ~ the little bastard was in my bedroom for Chrissake .

No way am I going to sit in my tiny dusty basement whilst the rodents are under the stove laughing at me...... :P .

Good idea about the pop bottle silencer, I used to use those in the 1970's when I was wilder .

[QUOTE=vwnate1;3996831]Bait it with what please ? .

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Squirrels are not a problem here. So I am unsure of the right bait. When I first used a live trap. It did not seem to work that well. Over time I got better results.

Since peanut butter is derived from nuts. I might give that a try for squirrels.

On normal mouse type traps. I bait them and wind some thin thread around the bait. No chance of them not triggering the trap then if they take the bait.