"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better to eat
what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes if anyone is
interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

On 18/3/09 18:17, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:55 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 18/3/09 17:39, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:10 +0000 (GMT), wrote:

In article ,
alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run from one end
of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it in just
one
shot.

Wehn Rusty refers to a squirrel rifle, he means one that you load
with squirrels ....

More of a squirrel mortar than a rifle?

Mais non! Trebuchet d'ecureil, surely? ;-)

Only Rusty could put a spin on a squirrel.

A googly, perhaps. ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

In article 3,
Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better to eat
what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes if anyone is
interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

More like rabbit, but gamier. Despite the close relationship of
rabbits and hares, the need to be treated entirely differently in
cooking. Rabbit is almost a "white" meat; hare is precisely the
converse.

I once made a casserole of young rabbit and squirrel - that worked
well.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better
to eat what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes
if anyone is interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

Yes, more or less, but not hare. Oddly enough I have never cooked them. I
might have recipes somewhere if you need them

I cook rabbit and squirrel the same, not unlike chicken.

Is your email good?

wrote:
In article 3,
Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better
to eat what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes
if anyone is interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

More like rabbit, but gamier. Despite the close relationship of
rabbits and hares, the need to be treated entirely differently in
cooking. Rabbit is almost a "white" meat; hare is precisely the
converse.

I once made a casserole of young rabbit and squirrel - that worked
well.

Indeed

"Tom" wrote in message
6.253...
"pied piper" wrote in
news

"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
...
I've got a Fenn MkIV trap but I'm not having much success in coaxing
the little bleeders into its jaws. I've dug the trap into the earth so
that its treadle plate is pretty much level with the soil and then
covered the whole trap with bark chips to make it more or less
invisible. I bought a metal tunnel with the trap, and I've covered the
whole set up with this. But despite scattering a few peanuts around
and inside the tunnel I've had no luck. They eat the nuts outside and
carefully avoid the tunnel. I thought perhaps they didn't like the
strange metal tunnel, so I've tried a couple of house bricks with roof
tile on top - no success that way either.

I don't much like the idea of poison for the sake of the squirrels or
other wildlife, so plan B is an airgun, but obviously a trap would be
a lot less work (and less vulnerable to my appalling marksmanship).


Why kill the squirrels?


To eat.

My local butcher had a stack of them for sale on Saturday.

I don't believe the OP is trying to harvest them for food.

wrote in message
...
In article 3,
Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better to
eat
what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes if anyone
is
interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

More like rabbit, but gamier. Despite the close relationship of
rabbits and hares, the need to be treated entirely differently in
cooking. Rabbit is almost a "white" meat; hare is precisely the
converse.

The wild rabbit I ate at the weekend was pretty 'gamey'. Most rabbit in the
shops is farmed, and more like chicken. Mind you, it's decades since I
jugged a hare.

BAC wrote:

The wild rabbit I ate at the weekend was pretty 'gamey'. Most rabbit
in the shops is farmed, and more like chicken. Mind you, it's decades
since I jugged a hare.

My rabbits are always freshly shot. I have never bought them from a shop.
I can't say any of the rabbits I have cooked have been particularly gamey.
I probably wouldn't eat them if they were.

wrote in message
...
In article ,
alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
o.uk...

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run from one end
of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it in just
one
shot.

Wehn Rusty refers to a squirrel rifle, he means one that you load
with squirrels ....

That is an interesting thought!

Alan




Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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The message
from contains these words:
In article ,
alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
.uk...

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run from one
end of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it in
just one
shot.

Wehn Rusty refers to a squirrel rifle, he means one that you load
with squirrels ....

So *THAT'S* where I've been going wrong with my elephant gun!

I don't think I'd be able to pick it up if it was loaded with an elephant!

Alan



--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
The message
from "alan.holmes" contains these words:

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run from one
end of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it in
just one
shot.

You just stand/kneel at one end of the trap, and the sqrl stays at the
other.

I'll try to bear that in mind the next time I catch one, the problem is,
that I will have forgotten I read that when it does happen.

One of the problems of old age!

Alan



--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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from Sacha contains these words:
On 18/3/09 18:17, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:55 +0000, Sacha
wrote:
On 18/3/09 17:39, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:10 +0000 (GMT), wrote:
In article ,
alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run
from one end
of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it
in just
one
shot.

Wehn Rusty refers to a squirrel rifle, he means one that you load
with squirrels ....

More of a squirrel mortar than a rifle?

Mais non! Trebuchet d'ecureil, surely? ;-)

Only Rusty could put a spin on a squirrel.

A googly, perhaps. ;-)

The Doucerer.

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

On 19/3/09 17:54, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 18/3/09 18:17, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:55 +0000, Sacha
wrote:
On 18/3/09 17:39, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:10 +0000 (GMT), wrote:
In article ,
alan.holmes wrote:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...

And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run
from one end
of
the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill it
in just
one
shot.

Wehn Rusty refers to a squirrel rifle, he means one that you load
with squirrels ....

More of a squirrel mortar than a rifle?

Mais non! Trebuchet d'ecureil, surely? ;-)

Only Rusty could put a spin on a squirrel.

A googly, perhaps. ;-)

The Doucerer.

Sweet talk a squirrel?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

wrote in :

In article 3,
Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better
to eat what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes
if anyone is interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

More like rabbit, but gamier. Despite the close relationship of
rabbits and hares, the need to be treated entirely differently in
cooking. Rabbit is almost a "white" meat; hare is precisely the
converse.

Farmed rabbit certainly is, but the difference is less clear
with wild rabbit. But there certainly is a difference, and I
was using the other meaning of "or" (e.g at the junction you
can turn left or right

Never did like the simple words: "and" is another slippery
customer with diametruically opposed meanings depending on
the context.

I once made a casserole of young rabbit and squirrel - that worked
well.

I really must buy some squirrel, even if it is only to squick
some squeamish relatives. Personally I don't think you ought
to be regarded as an adult unless you can prepare a small animal
or bird for the pot.

Last weekend I bought razor clams at the same shop. Delicious
when sauteed for 60s, but some people don't like watching them
wriggle immediately before cooking. But perhaps this is
meandering a bit too far off topic.

"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in
:

Might I suggest the OP learns to use his airgun well? Much better
to eat what you kill if they are edible. I have plenty of recipes
if anyone is interested

Yes please. Brief details only! (My local butcher had them
for sale at the weekend).

I presume you can cook them like wild rabbit or hare.

Yes, more or less, but not hare. Oddly enough I have never cooked
them. I might have recipes somewhere if you need them

I cook rabbit and squirrel the same, not unlike chicken.

Is your email good?

Yes, but email to you bounced!