Squirrels Caches used to Net $35,000 a year

[jeff of pa]

I wonder if it is still Done.

I Know Golf Ball Caches in Squirrels Nests around Golf Courses are
Profitable.

but This is a First for me



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[DizzyDigger]

Years back I used to bowhunt deer using a treestand, and there was
always at least one chipmunk or squirrel that would sit there and just
raise holy hell, for hours on end, simply because I was sitting in his tree.

 

[BillA]

starving the squirrels, there oughta be a law

 

[jeff of pa]

Capital journal. (Salem, Or.), 03 Sept. 1921.



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[jeff of pa]

The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.), 17 Sept. 1930.



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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 15 May 1933.

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[BillA]

an exchange program: stolen nuts for golf balls ?
(got their nuts for ransome, eh)

 

[Bum Luck]

starving the squirrels, there oughta be a law

That leaves you with a dilemma: Shooting them cuts into your revenue!

 

[BillA]

That leaves you with a dilemma: Shooting them cuts into your revenue!

but you can eat them, AND balance the squirrel/nut demand with the nut/supply
you're green

 

[jeff of pa]

If Squirrels Had feelings & Logic, after the Snows Come
& all they got are these Large Hard Plastic Golf balls for the Winter,
They would feel Mighty Foolish

Golf Balls don't Ripen

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Years back I used to bowhunt deer using a treestand, and there was
always at least one chipmunk or squirrel that would sit there and just
raise holy hell, for hours on end, simply because I was sitting in his tree.

One of the best shots I ever made was hitting a red squirrel that had been running back and forth scolding me along a fallen tree trunk about 20 yards from the hemlock I was sitting under hoping the drizzling rain would stop. I don't know who was more surprised. That was with a longbow and wood arrow, making it all the more astonishing because I had to hold it almost horizontally. They shoot higher than normal when you do that, and when you have to think about an instinctive shot it usually all falls apart. For a dozen years his tail was on my quiver . . . until one of our cat's noticed it and ended that tail.