Sota's semi live squirrel war 2019

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  1. MnHunterr

    MnHunterr Legendary Woodsman

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    Maybe all squirrels will just freeze to death next week.
     
    MnHunterr, Jan 25, 2019
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    -17 at my house this morning, not good trapping weather.
     
    Sota, Jan 25, 2019
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Number 12 has been culled.
     
    Sota, Jan 26, 2019
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    charleshibner92 Weekend Warrior

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    Kill them. Good goin. The only vermin i cant stand is coon cause they wont stay away from my deer corn and run deer off. Guess i need Sota motivation to trap them


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    charleshibner92, Jan 27, 2019
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  6. Sota

    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    When we get a dry summer I get over run with raccoons because I have two ponds that do not dry up. When I get 100 pictures on a trail camera and 99 of them are raccoons, and a few of them are giving the camera the finger it is time to act a couple summers ago I took out 36 raccoons.
     
    Sota, Jan 27, 2019
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    charleshibner92 Weekend Warrior

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    Not only deer feeders but ther always in my cattle feeders and i liv on a chicken farm so ther is always a family of coons, a family or two of ferrel cats and ther uncle opossum running around. And not to mention that ther is lots food so they are all trophy animals


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    charleshibner92, Jan 27, 2019
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  8. Sota

    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    I had never saw a opossum here in Minnesota till 5 years or so ago. I had a run this fall where I shot 3 on consecutive friday nights.
     
    Sota, Jan 27, 2019
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    I do not shoot everything on site, I leave the skunks alone they dig out the ground bee nests every fall. I leave the fox alone now no chickens to defend. Shart and War will take care of the rest.
     
    Sota, Jan 27, 2019
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    greatwhitehunter3 Grizzled Veteran

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    Those dang things are everywhere here.

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    greatwhitehunter3, Jan 27, 2019
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    Well this week end the war is back on, going to move one trap out by where the deer get fed. I think I am going to set up a trail camera and put out the squirrels. Probably will just get pictures of Shart stealing them.
     
    Sota, Feb 1, 2019
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Lucky number 13 today I did not even rebait yet and the traps were semi covered in snow.
     
    Sota, Feb 1, 2019
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Up to 14 now, like I said I will not win the war but the victory party for the squirrels will not have as many attendees.
     
    Sota, Feb 2, 2019
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    Sounds like you are putting a pretty good dent in the population.


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    Not so sure I was watching a half dozen frolicking around the bird feeder while 1 was laying there dead in the trap. I guess having 10,000 oaks on the property makes it a squirrel meca. I should apply for a grant to study squirrels of the oak savanna on the great anoka sand plain, to measure their value to the ecosystem.
     
    Sota, Feb 2, 2019
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    Season is running out.
    Tick tock.
    Carpet bomb that place!!
     
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    # 15 gone, 5 more to the management goal in that zone. Still no elusive black squirrel.
     
    Sota, Feb 3, 2019
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    Contact the national hunting magazines. This is a squirrel season for the ages!

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    virginiashadow, Feb 3, 2019
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  19. Sota

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    #16 is twitching in the trap 2 this morning and it is just past 10 in the morning.
     
    Sota, Feb 3, 2019
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    I have till Feb 28th
     
    Sota, Feb 3, 2019
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  21. Sota

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    So frustrating 4 squirrels at the feeder, 3 black ones and 1 grey, and it is the gray one that ends up in the trap.
     
    Sota, Feb 3, 2019
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