Anyone tasked with controlling grey squirrels will know that numbers can quickly bounce back if you take the pressure off. These destructive rodents often have two litters per year, and that, combined with others moving in from surrounding woodland, means that the vacuum you create will soon be filled. If that happens, your past efforts will be rendered almost pointless and the damage to trees and impact on other wildlife will simply carry on as before.
Quiet, accurate and, in the right hands, capable of consistently delivering swift kills, the humble air rifle is a great tool for controlling grey squirrels. The job can become more challenging during the warmer months when dense foliage makes it difficult to spot the bark-stripping rodents up in their treetop haunts. Frustratingly, this problem arises just as spring’s new arrivals are putting in an
