what do you guys do when you shoot a squirrl,dove, any pest animal???
Eat it ( [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img] ) leave it? bury it? feed it to the dog (not reccomended)?
i have pests and need to get rid of them... airgun style!

Driveit

 

squirrels[good eating] ,also try contacting Mepps , the lure manufacture, i think they will take the tails[dont know if they pay, but they might], doves[also good to eat].........

 

I dont really want to eat the pests, alough there suppost to be good.
these are just pests so should i just leave them there? kinda
wrong to do it i guess. need help....

DI

 

Umm, throw them in the garbage!!! Dar! LOL That's what I do with the chipmunks, but the squirrels I eat.

 

I think im just going to carry a small garden shovel around with me
so i can bury the pests.

DI

 

Ok man, do it the hard way. Just think though, when you throw them in the garbage, they go to an incinerator. So it's almost like they're getting cremated. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

R.I.P beloved squirrls/dove/sparrow/starling. lol j/k
how is it the hard way? no fiddling around with there guts and blood...
i'd rather skin a fish than a squirrl.
IMO

 

No, you're missing the point. If you're NOT going to eat them, why burry them when you can throw them away??? You don't sweat or hurt your back and it's just alot easier..... what does skinning a fish have to do with it?? LOL

 

LoL these descusions are awesome
so you say just chuck'em...
makes life easier i guess.
lol

what do you use to rid pests....


DI

 

You're really missing something by not eating doves. Excellent table fare. heck, a delicacy. A bunch of dove breasts cooked on the grill with a small chunk of bacon on top or perhaps in kabobs is some of the best eating there is. Squirrel is pretty good too. Cook it just like you would chicken though larger animals tend to do better in stews.

Doves aren't really a pest but a game bird. Squirrels are a game animal but can sure be a pest sometimes.

House sparrows can actually be eaten. I ate them in a survival class once and they weren't bad at all. Not a whole lot of meat though. Take a few dozen for a meal. Your federal laws allow you to kill house sparrows since they are non-native songbirds and a pest. Same goes for starlings. I wouldn't eat those nasty things though unless I was starving to death. Shoot them on sight though if you can. A destructive non-native bird that is terribly detrimental to our native songbirds.

As for the pests I shoot which I don't eat after I shoot around the farm, stray cats and dogs, coyotes, coons and other vermin in the chicken house etc they get tossed in a pit dug especially for such purposes and covered with some lime to help with the stink.