Squirrel season is in

[fouled bore]

Get the kids and let's go hunting. Let's see some pictures of some successful hunts.

 

[Kingcreek]

Shot 1 yesterday morning. I was barefoot and in my underwear. No camo. Used a 20g from the front porch. Dang things have been chewing my cedar porch to splinters. Gonna keep shooting then to save what's left of my porch.
Funny thing is I live in a grove of walnut trees. Last year a disabled vet asked if he could hunt and I gave him a comfortable chair in the shade and some ice tea. He shot 8 in 3 days then I never saw him again.

 

[ridgerunner1965]

i havent had a mess of squirrel in a couple years.after the first frost i may go out after some grays.

i think i will lightly pressure cook them then bread and fry.

also a good time to look for deer sign.

i wish i had a kid to take hunting but my son has ran off to engineering school.

 

[au_prospector]

Funny thing is I live in a grove of walnut trees. Last year a disabled vet asked if he could hunt and I gave him a comfortable chair in the shade and some ice tea. He shot 8 in 3 days then I never saw him again.

Wish he would come to my house. Damned things ate all my peaches and apples. I got three with an airgun. Shhhh dont tell the neighbors, I think they feed them cracked corn. We are in a drought so they probably got full on dry corn and came to my fruit trees looking for moisture. Saw a hawk take one, blessed raptor.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Squirrel season in Arkansas starts in May and runs through the end of February. I generally stay away from warm weather squirrel hunting because of the "wuffs" -- bot flies that lay their eggs in squirrels' skin and produce nasty-looking things that crawl out of the cooling body.

 

[vincyr]

I'm getting antsy to go get me some squirrel. Season doesn't start in NY till Sept 1. Gonna hit the hickory stands in the state woods down the road as soon as I get the chance.

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[Arkansas Paul]

I generally stay away from warm weather squirrel hunting because of the "wuffs" -- bot flies that lay their eggs in squirrels' skin and produce nasty-looking things that crawl out of the cooling body.

Last deer season I had been seeing a couple of big rabbits while on my deer stand. Now there's not much in this world that makes a better meal than a young tender fried rabbit.
So I slip in there one evening just before dark to put out corn for the weekend deer hunt. I take along my .22 in case I see one of the big rabbits.
Sure enough right before I get to my food plot there he is. I shot him and the bullet ripped his neck open. Out of the exit wound, one of those huge things comes crawling out.

Made me sick to feed a fresh rabbit to the dogs. I'd not have shot him if I'd known.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I've had people tell me it's okay to eat rabbits and squirrels with "wuffs" -- but not me.

 

[cowpoke]

love squirrel an hunting them.

 

[Sniper66]

Squirrel season here in Kansas starts June 1st, but the hot humid weather has kept me out of the woods. Maybe soon. In the meantime, I'll take all my squirrel rifles to the range to be sure the scopes are zeroed, sharpen my knife, check my ammo supply, locate my walking/shooting stick, sort through my camo clothing to repair or replace old stuff, oil my boots, renew my permission to hunt numerous farms, go to a couple of auctions and maybe buy another squirrel rifle, go fishing while waiting for better squirrel hunting weather....I think that's about it.

 

[MCgunner]

Squirrel season never closes here and there's no bag limits. I prefer to hunt 'em in the spring after deer season ends. Not so hot that time of year. I just really can't get in to hunting in 100 degree 90 percent humidity.

 

[FL-NC]

Its weird- in warm weather they are all around the house stealing bird seed, foraging for acorns, etc.- but after the frost they are few and far between.

 

[3212]

As a farm boy,I would stalk a lane between cornfields and woods to take squirrels on the run.The season opened in October.

 

[ajd3530]

Season started up today (I guess yesterday) here in TN. I however have absolutely 0 interest in going through the woods when the heat index is in the mid 90s.

 

[TRX]

> He shot 8 in 3 days then I never saw him again.

Maybe he hasn't run out of pork yet!

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

There are a few fox squirrels around here but too danged hot and humid to mess with em. Same for the rabbits, season is all year here in Kansas but I'll wait till winter.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

This thread is really giving me a hankering for some squirrel and dumplings.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Its weird- in warm weather they are all around the house stealing bird seed, foraging for acorns, etc.- but after the frost they are few and far between.

Squirrels migrate. When the pickings get slim in one area, they move on to another.

Walmart sells a wire corn cob hanger -- each one takes a full cob, and you hang them from trees to feed the squirrels. That may keep them around longer.

 

[gwpercle]

I been corn fattening a few in my back yard for a while now.
Discovered if I feed the squirrels a little corn they would leave my little vegetable garden and fruit trees alone. Now those guys are getting rather plump and well fed looking !
Been awhile since I had some squirrel , simmered in a rich brown gravy with hot buttermilk biscuits !
Them squirrels better be careful out there.
Gary

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Reminds me of a cartoon years ago in the Saturday Evening Post. A farmer is scattering corn for the turkeys, and one turkey says to another, "Sure, he's a great guy. But I keep wondering -- what's in it for him?"

 

[medic15al]

I love squirrel hunting but cant get in the woods due to health anymore.

A proper squirrel hunt to me is a good 16 ga shotgun and Federal purple #5 shot shells, a bird vest, and a camo hat.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I carry a "possibles bag" slung over my shoulder with:

A pair of needle nose pliers
A pack of Kraft paper sandwich bags
A pack of Handi-whipes
A pack of surgical gloves
A goatskin tobacco pouch full of .22 shells

Hanging from the shoulder strap loop of the bag is a 2 foot length of cord, and I have a VERY sharp pocket knife.

I carry squirrels by looping the cord around the neck and letting them hang down like a stringer of fish.

When ready to skin them, I tie the cord to a limb or a stout nail in the barn. I cut through the squirrel’s tail at the root, leaving it attached to the body only by a strip of skin, and use a slip knot to hold the squirrel hanging.

Then I continue the cut made in the tail around the body, leaving a V-shaped cut on the abdomen, pointed toward the head. I grab the hind legs and pull down until only the head and front feet are still encased in skin.

With the needle nose pliers, I grab the V of skin and pull down, and continue pulling until only the hind feet are encased in skin. With my knife, I sever the head, then clip the front ankles with the wire-cutting section of the needle nose pliers.

Holding the squirrel by the skin from the back end, I slit the belly and dump out the organs. I hold the gutted squirrel in a standing Kraft sandwich bag and cut the rear ankles with the needle nose pliers.

Of course I wear surgical gloves throughout the process, and frequently wipe hands, knife, pliers and so on with the Handi-wipes. I never touch meat with anything that has even a single hair on it.

 

[MCgunner]

I've always considered the accurate .22 rifle the best over all squirrel hunting gun. But, I've killed more'n one with a shotgun.

 

[Rembrandt]

Nothing like a crisp fall day and a .22.

 

[MCgunner]

That's a handsome rifle.