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Squirrel Hunting......
204targetman
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anyone else still go. I lived for squirrel season when I was a teenager. quit for a really long time. now I'm getting back into it the last few years. I use a savage .22 bolt gun with a rimfire leupold on top.
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I'm getting the hankering to start back up. When I was a kid August 15th was a bigger day for me than Christmas.
opened last Saturday here in ky. I don't like to go until it cools down a bit. but when I was younger, I didn't care how hot it was. I was going
Used to do a lot of squirrel hunting. "HAD" the best territory in the world. Anyway, I miss it and the prep., cooking and eating. All grays by the way.
was all grays for me too. ive never shot a fox squirrel. wasn't any around my area
Ruger mk2 target or .410, I'll skip deer before I'll give up squirrel.
I have a ruger mk II. have thought about using it. is yours scoped, and if it is. what do you have on it.
Tree rats were plentiful and that little .22 put them on the table on a regular basis. I always preferred rabbits as they tasted less gammy to me. I don't miss eating them. I always enjoyed hunting them however , but stopped when I no longer had to eat them.
Never saw a grey until I was 25, then I shot two out of the same tree the same evening in the same woods I had hunted for years. Never saw another in the next 13 years I hunted there.
Now I live 3 hours north and mostly see grays and blacks maybe a fox every 2-3 years.
Before I retired I always took opening day off.
Can't wait!
Edit:
Well, opening day was a bust. Windy and foggy. Saw some cutting and nuts, not one single squirrel. May go back out this eve.
I used to go opening day and one day of the weekend if at all possible. Still go every so often, quite often just to enjoy the woods.
yeah, I don't really care if I get anything or not. its just the being out there. brings back good memories.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
quote:Originally posted by asop
Used to do a lot of squirrel hunting. "HAD" the best territory in the world. Anyway, I miss it and the prep., cooking and eating. All grays by the way.
was all grays for me too. ive never shot a fox squirrel. wasn't any around my area
Mostly grays where I grew up, but I would shoot a few fox squirrels every year. Be in a good hickory stand before daylight when the gray squirrels were working it and it doesn't get much funner than that.
..always shot my squirrels with 22 short HP...Will not hunt until first frost...
yeah, they sometimes get a little wormy
quote:Originally posted by 204targetman
quote:Originally posted by asop
Used to do a lot of squirrel hunting. "HAD" the best territory in the world. Anyway, I miss it and the prep., cooking and eating. All grays by the way.
was all grays for me too. ive never shot a fox squirrel. wasn't any around my area
Mostly grays where I grew up, but I would shoot a few fox squirrels every year. Be in a good hickory stand before daylight when the gray squirrels were working it and it doesn't get much funner than that.
nothing like hearing a gray cutting a hickory nut. can hear that from a way off
I remember Mrs. Burnett telling my Mom one time that Earl, her husband, had eaten so many squirrels that year that he had started climbing trees.
I always stayed out of school on opening day of hunting season. I usually didn't sleep very much the night before from being excited about going hunting on opening day.
I remember slipping into the woods before daylight on dew soaked wet leaves being as quiet as I could and then finding a spot to sit down and wait. Then the old heart rate would go up when you hear the squirrels start stirring around as the sun came up and you could hear the dew falling off of the tree limbs. Yep those were the good old days.
Hunted squirrels with both dogs and still hunting without dogs.
Fox squirrels got eventually replaced by Grays in this area.
Some of my favorite squirrel woods in Oklahoma to get a limit fast now do not have any at all. Very few Hickory trees even produce nuts, lots of Hawks and Owls, rough mother nature life out there for squirrels in this neck of the woods now days. Squirrels have went away with the wild Honey Bees. Have not seen a bee tree in the woods in several years. (and no one seems to give a rats * about Honey Bees and Squirrels going away)[:(]
I have a very accurate lo power scoped rifle over 12 gauge that is deadly on squirrels, shotgun for the jumpy grays and rifle for the fox squirrels.
I thought about going this year but my lady friend is adamantly opposed to it.
da' wife makes a great pot pie or boil them up, debone and then fry in batter.
Opens here in a few weeks. I wait until the frost and most of the leaves have fallen.
Walking, I carry my father-in-laws old H&R .410. It takes me back to being a kid.
Go in before sun up. Find a place to sit, that is where I use a suppressed .22. Best run to date is 4 in 20 minutes.
They are a real nuisance, as they sneak their way into my garage and eat my stored chicken feed. When I first moved here I thought that if I killed them off, the good game squirrels would move back in.
Not only was I wrong in my assumptions, but it seems that for every red squirrel that I kill, another dozen come in and take their place![:(!]
Would love to try it though.
Got three with 3 shots this morning. One old boar that had a set of ---s as big as mine. I'll bet he'll be tough.
Skin him, boil him and then put him in a slow dark rouex..simmer for 40 minutes...until meat falls off bone,,...
quote:Originally posted by jimdeere
Got three with 3 shots this morning. One old boar that had a set of ---s as big as mine. I'll bet he'll be tough.
Skin him, boil him and then put him in a slow dark rouex..simmer for 40 minutes...until meat falls off bone,,...
Do as above and make squirrel and dumplings.[;)]
but had number of older people that loved to eat them.we could get limit of 75 per hunting season I would skin and clean them in the woods
and try to only head shoot them then deliver to my older friends the most fun I ever had was one year I hunted with a repro colt 1860 army
The 44cal round ball would blow them right off the tree limb but would not really ruin any meat because of slow velocity it would just leave a hole the size of your finger. and it was lethal any where as I was not good enough to get head shots very often