A BOX OF TRICKS FOR GREEDY GREYS

Most people who carry out squirrel control with air rifles know that the use of feeding stations can boost their results. Offering bushy-tails a source of tasty and nutritious food creates an area of activity where we can expect to encounter them at certain times of the day, which is always going to be more productive than wandering the woods in the hope of getting one or two shots.

Your strike rate, and the ease of running your feeders, can be further improved with a few tweaks to your approach. I thought I would share some experiences with a successful feeding station site this year.

I want to rebuff the criticisms from some quarters claiming that the use of feeding stations is unsporting. We are dealing with a very destructive introduced species