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Bring me some fat!! lol
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He had plenty! Not a winters worth. But enough.Bring me some fat!! lol
Good start to the year. Over the weekend my little brother came to visit. We took the girls on a squirrel hunt and killed 10 squirrels total in about an hour and a half. Good crop of tree rats this year. Here's me and my girls with 9 squirrels:
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As we were skinning these 9 we saw another one. We ran it up a tree and it didn't go too high. My 8 year old says "I want to shoot that one!" We have been out shooting a few times, they kinda like it but it has been slow learning for them. It was tough getting her set up shooting up in the tree but finally she was able to get a sight picture and 3rd shot she nailed it. Jill with her first squirrel:
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Went home and got to cooking. Braised squirrel and then browned in butter/oil until crispy with mashed potatoes and gravy made from the drippings. One of my favorite meals of all time:
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I didn't get many pics but the next day we went camping to chase the elk around (end of the rut) and shoot squirrels. Had a great time, heard some bugling and watched some rut activity and ate a bunch of squirrels cooked in the dutch oven. Great weekend.
Looks beautiful, what area of Sweden is that? My wife just came back from there last week after visiting siblings in Skåne and Stockholm, I go every other year or so.Home sweet home, plus a view from the back of the house. I have area's of mature pine and quite a few plantations of spruce that are 4-5 mtr tall spruce plus a fair bit of birch.
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I remember back in the 60s when roe and fallow deer were looked on as vermin in the UK. Now its a different matter and you can pay silly money to shoot a representative buck. I was very lucky that i had a great bit of hunting ground when i lived in England that never cost me a penny for over 30 years. If i never shoot a roe or fallow again, I've shot more than my fair share.
Now i own my own hunting ground, but as I've got older i like to see them around more than shoot them. I must have meat for the freezer though. I have a mate who lives in Norway who is a keen roe hunter but does not have access to any hunting there. So he comes here to my place and hunts every year. He got a bronze medal buck a couple of years ago.
Looks beautiful, what area of Sweden is that? My wife just came back from there last week after visiting siblings in Skåne and Stockholm, I go every other year or so.
Is he able to bring the meat back to Norway?
We've visited a friend of my wife who lives near Borås, nice area. Sounds like you had a great day down south.I live in Västergötland about 3 hours north of Malmo & 50km south of Borås. I was down in Skåne a couple of weekends ago working my spaniel on a rough shoot for pheasants and partridge. We hunted on a small island about a mile of the coast. It was a test for the Labrador retriever club. The guns had a mixed bag of about 30 birds.
If your up this way again drop me a PM and call in for coffee and a chat.We've visited a friend of my wife who lives near Borås, nice area. Sounds like you had a great day down south.
Thank you, will try to do that next time I visit.If your up this way again drop me a PM and call in for coffee and a chat.
Opening day for deer and elk here in Montana. This is the first year the Mrs. has ever been hunting. She's a crack shot with her Ruger M77, took this guy with a 200 yard off-hand shot straight to the boiler room. The buck fever got her pretty bad and she didn't even see the 4 other much larger deer, the biggest was a wide and tall 4x5.
She even skins her own deer, what a gal!