OK so the coastal blacktail here think my veg garden is their personal salad bar!, looking for some cheap alternative to assassination, what do you guys use?
I’ve been ‘working’ at keeping the local deer and other critter populations out of the garden with different iterations of electric fence for a number of years now. Tried the poly rope and tape with little success. Coyotes or dogs would give chase to some deer and they just ran through the stuff, shredding it like it wasn’t there. Went to 1/8” domestically galvanized (with process data) aircraft cable (found the cheap stuff from Amazon and similar places rusted in 18 months or so) starting about 3” off the ground up to 6’ tall, total of eight wires I believe, spaced pretty close near the ground (think woodchucks and rabbits), not so close to each other nearing the top. Stopped everything except the deer that just bounced over it for the salad bar. Then added a second fence 3’ in front of the taller fence about 30” high as @BruceS suggested and that 3D effect seemed to do the trick, something the local farmers also do. Find wrapping a bit of tinfoil with peanut butter on it to the fence wires to be good ‘training’ method. The deer come up to taste the tinfoil/peanut butter treat and just about turn themselves inside out trying to leave the premises as quickly as possible after licking it. Turn the power off the fence, and within a few weeks the deer are walking right through the fence wires for the tasty garden treats.For whitetails, I use a single strand electric fence around my garden about three feet high, then about 3 feet out put another single strand of electric fence. They jump one and get into the other. Usually i have to reconstruct the fence about two-three times until they learn to leave it alone. I just use the cheap push in rods with plastic insulators I get at my farm store.
I found that making little tinfoil cups of peanut butter and hanging them on the electric fence was remarkably effective. They give it a lick and ZAP! Like a mouthful of bees. Second time they fall for it is generally the last time they fall for it.For whitetails, I use a single strand electric fence around my garden about three feet high, then about 3 feet out put another single strand of electric fence. They jump one and get into the other. Usually i have to reconstruct the fence about two-three times until they learn to leave it alone. I just use the cheap push in rods with plastic insulators I get at my farm store.
I almost swallowed my chew on that one!You can even get solar-powered electric fencing now; very effective!
Back in college, buddy and I went squirrel hunting in a wooded pasture area - with owner's permission.
As we were leaving, he stopped to "water the grass", turned away from me. I noticed he had his "Sweet Sixteen" cradled in his arm diagonally downward. And that he was within a foot or so of the hot wire.
Yelled at him, "Mark! Squirrel!"
And sure enough, he swung just the right amount!
Urine is VERY conductive...
Claymores!!!!!!!!!!! now you're speaking my language! I have plenty of powder and a couple thousand 54 ball, time to put my old USMC jungle warfare and booby trap training to good use! this could be FUN!Rural here. Plenty of deer browse and they do not often bother my wife's garden. When they do I wish for Claymores.
Yes, but. Better make it command detonated and hide the whiskey when you are holding the trigger. One wrong move and you will be looking at concrete walls for the rest of your time on earth.Claymores!!!!!!!!!!! now you're speaking my language! I have plenty of powder and a couple thousand 54 ball, time to put my old USMC jungle warfare and booby trap training to good use! this could be FUN!
I have used Irish Spring soap and had good results. Hanging bars of this type of strong smelling soap close to the plants and around the garden has worked for me. I've drilled holes in the bars then put a string through it and hung servel on the tomatoe basket, high and low. Used mess type bags some grocery stores used for some of their vegetables they sell. It has worked with some results on raccoons ,but bad smelling things don't always work for them. Put soap on posts around the garden. I also strung string around with stripes of aluminum foil so it moves with the wind. That help some with the rabbits. I need help with the mice.OK so the coastal blacktail here think my veg garden is their personal salad bar!, looking for some cheap alternative to assassination, what do you guys use?
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