Don't laugh. Eating suburban squirrels?

[wankerjake]

I'd eat 'em. A little weed killer will put hair on your chest.

Honestly I would feel safe eating them.

 

[rugerman]

Take a rat trap, screw it to a tree or post bait it with peanut butter. You will have to move it from time to time once they figure it out but it works well.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I've done it more than once when I was a kid. No I'll effects.

 

[d2wing]

I use a tuned QB78 .22 cal co2 pellet gun from Mike at Flying Dragon air guns. At real close range or to be really quiet I use a Daisy .177 Target gun. Either one is good for target practice too. I tried CB caps, to loud and too much range. A GAMO bone collector is the worst piece of junk I have ever owned. Loud flimsy, inaccurate terrible scope and trigger.

 

[a-sheepdog]

As long as its legal, I think that you are pretty safe eating them, at least in my opinion.

 

[armedwalleye]

Gray squirrels are decimating the black walnuts I have out to dry under a screen frame. Little beggars have learned to move the screen and get the nuts, choosing to eat them right on my patio and littering the hulls everywhere. Hey. I grew up small game hunting, and my share of whitetail. I haven't had fresh squirrel in years. I do have a pellet rifle and am darn fine with it here in town. One neighbor two doors down though feeds them then gets angry at her big cat for killing them, despite the lady being told to not leave peanuts out for the little tree rats, so I didn't bother asking her if she cares.Neighbors say "have at 'em Don", and it's legal on my on property
Now this: Reckon it's safe to eat suburban squirrel what with weed killers and fertilizers city folks use? Don

"It's legal on my property"....Per the OP.

Have at it. They taste like chicken.

Do you really care about the neighbor's opinion? After all, she IS "cat people".

 

[Bushpilot]

Kind of pathetic IMO that we live in a society that has "progressed" to the point where anyone feels the need to be concerned about the legalities involved with discharging a pellet gun on your own property in the pursuit of squirrels. As far as eating them is concerned, I wouldn't be at all surprised if neighborhood squirrels are healthier to eat then the chickens at the local super market, but that is just a guess on my part.

 

[LordDunsany]

I don't get around too well these days but still get to do plenty of hunting from my patio chair. A pump-up Crosman for small game (mice, rats and tree-rats) and a .22 with CB caps for big game (possums etc.)

I don't eat the tree-rats as the wife had to live on them as a kid and can't stand the thought of fried squirrel, but I do take the furs and tails for fishing lures and other projects.

Waste not want not...

By the way, we are now able to get a few things from the garden, which had been eaten up by pests previously. And don't waste your time on Hav-A-Hart traps because the little bastiches are too clever to go into them. Rat traps with peanut butter are the way to go if you can't shoot them.