Hunting squirrels
i live for squirrel season, i cant get enough squirrel hunting in. wish i could quit work for the first two or three months of squirrel season and just live up in the CO mountains.
I have mostly hunted them with a .22 rifle, either a marlin 795, or 880SQ, or a Ruger 10-22 that i tricked out. I have recently gotten into handgunning for squirrel (and other game) with a Ruger MK II 22/45 6 7/8" Slabside compitition pistol with a Simmons 4X32mm pistol scope. Handgunning has really added a new, fresh demension to hunting for me, really brough out the adventure and sport of it. And yes, i do eat all the squirrels i shoot. wife doesnt like them, but she cooks up a mean Hot Wing Squirrel!
I usually walk very slowly through the trees, listening between footsteps for the barking. when i hear them barking or see them running through the trees or on the ground i stalk up as close as i can get and pop them. If i need to make them talk, i use the ridges on the grip of my pistol and make pine cone cutting sounds with my finger nail. it usually causes one or more of them to start barking.
Most of the squirrel hunting i do now is for the smaller Red Squirrels up in the mountains, but i really miss the big, corn fed Fox squirrels out in SD!
-Eric