Squirrel hunting for me has stood the test of time! Started in the mid-60's when I's about 8 hunting with my Dad. We pretty much hunted all season every year and most always with shotguns but only occasinally with a 22. Don't really understand why a rifle didn't appeal to me more then. Between my brother, dad, & me we always killed in the 00's and ate everyone and wanted more. By the time I's married and a family of mine own, early 80's I started deer & turkey hunting. Seemed like a real adventure at first, so I quit squirrel hunting. Wasn't long before I quit hunting all-together! Thru these years fishing consumed all my outdoors time, always love to fish anyways. About 10 years ago, with the kids about grown, lotta of solitary time, loosing my interest in fishing (alone) I got back into turkey hunting, but with a longbow. Now that was some interesting fun and I hunted as hard as time permitted, came close many times but never completely scored. Hunted one morning during this with a shotgun and got a bird, and knew I could've limited every season with one. It got to where I enjoyed just hitting the woods with my bow and stump shooting, but more & more trying to hunt squirrels with it. I must admit I got to where fall turkey hunting was more fun than spring, but it's always feast or famine, and really tough being in nothing but big wooded mountains no agriculture. I soon learned that although great hunting action, the bow is a poor squirrel killer as far as quick kills and when from my hands I only want a quick humane kill. All this rekindled in me that IMO the only really good hunting is Still-hunting, Spot&Stalk, or whatever lends itself to constantly seeking sign, stopping to look, always HUNTING, and hunting new places! Nothing else compares with Squirrel hunting for true, reliable consistent hunting and shooting action (love guns as much as hunting)!!!I'm 52 now and as crazy about hunting as I ever was, not able to go as hard and far, and not very often as I could but still going. Put down the bow and got into what I'd never went into any depth before and got me a good 22 rifle & scope. LOVING every minute of it. Although I'll still occasionally use my scoped rifle, theres nothing as enjoyable, satisfying, and challenging as hunting em with an iron-sighted 22 rifle! Now it's nothing to do with #'s, always a patient careful stalk for as good a shot as I can get and make a ONE-Shot kill as often as possible. Usually a head shot but I'll take a heart-lung shot if need be confident it kills instantly with a high velocity hollowpoint. A successful hunt usually leads to a meal I cook for myself that evening, a day that can't be beat by antlers or long beards IMO. As good as it gets here on earth! But now wish fall turkeys where legal with a rifle here in Ky., and IMO they should be! Guess it should be a heritage carried on from the beginning of our country and as challenging as can be. Fried turkey breast is good too!
