When I used my springer I set up in a more urban environment and slayed squirrels mostly off a feeder. But now that I have my PCP I need to go out in the woods and having a harder time finding squirrels. I set up a feeder in October and a week or month later I came back and sat at it for a few hours, saw nothing. I did use bird seed but it has worked before for me. I've spent hours roaming around there and only seen 1-2 and they're not the grey squirrels I'm used to they're fox squirrels.
I barely see any birds or anything it's so strange. At my urban feeder area there was constantly birds and I think their attention interested the squirrels to the feeder, anyways I went this past weekend and same thing now 3 months after initially putting the feeder the feeder isn't even empty yet!
I've done hours of walk and stalk as well and see basically nothing, the odd chickadee or whatever. I have a great permission that's in a little city in the country but alas there's no firearms in the city limits (25 acre farm). And my PCP is a firearm here....so here in the center of the map the raised section is mostly in a legal shooting area to the left of Cultus lake (The area right of the red line, left is in "city limits"). There's forestry roads I can drive my car up I get some funny looks as most guys park at the bottom and dirt bike or quad to the top and trails all through there.
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Chilliwack,+BC/@49.0623346,-122.0190049,6549m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54843f9d75e9f3a7:0x1d49386fd2f9a230!8m2!3d49.1579401!4d-121.9514666
So this is the area I go and hike around with my Royale, which I'm ashamed to say I have NO kills with. This is about an hour and ten minutes away for me so really that's not too bad but want to improve my chances.
Any suggestions? I think I'm going to set up a few more feeders and use whole oats or peanuts. I know shooting off feeders is a bit frowned on but up here fox and grey squirrels are an invasive species and there's no season, no limit and no license required. And I want to improve my chances!
I barely see any birds or anything it's so strange. At my urban feeder area there was constantly birds and I think their attention interested the squirrels to the feeder, anyways I went this past weekend and same thing now 3 months after initially putting the feeder the feeder isn't even empty yet!
I've done hours of walk and stalk as well and see basically nothing, the odd chickadee or whatever. I have a great permission that's in a little city in the country but alas there's no firearms in the city limits (25 acre farm). And my PCP is a firearm here....so here in the center of the map the raised section is mostly in a legal shooting area to the left of Cultus lake (The area right of the red line, left is in "city limits"). There's forestry roads I can drive my car up I get some funny looks as most guys park at the bottom and dirt bike or quad to the top and trails all through there.
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Chilliwack,+BC/@49.0623346,-122.0190049,6549m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54843f9d75e9f3a7:0x1d49386fd2f9a230!8m2!3d49.1579401!4d-121.9514666
So this is the area I go and hike around with my Royale, which I'm ashamed to say I have NO kills with. This is about an hour and ten minutes away for me so really that's not too bad but want to improve my chances.
Any suggestions? I think I'm going to set up a few more feeders and use whole oats or peanuts. I know shooting off feeders is a bit frowned on but up here fox and grey squirrels are an invasive species and there's no season, no limit and no license required. And I want to improve my chances!