2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........

Gum Slough Muzzleloader · Tuesday at 5:49 PM

Glad ya got out there, Ed.
It's good to hear that the sight problem was the sight and not your new lenses. Hope that your site continues to improve. It's a good thing that ya found ya a decent spot to hunt. Hoping to get out this weekend and do some squirrel hunting. I should be deer hunting but the public lands have been hit hard. I feel most bucks went nocturnal. I thought about take my double barrel shotgun and load one up with #6 and the other one with buck shot, just incase a shootable buck walks by.

ETipp · Tuesday at 6:48 PM

Gum Slough Muzzleloader said:
Glad ya got out there, Ed.
It's good to hear that the sight problem was the sight and not your new lenses. Hope that your site continues to improve. It's a good thing that ya found ya a decent spot to hunt. Hoping to get out this weekend and do some squirrel hunting. I should be deer hunting but the public lands have been hit hard. I feel most bucks went nocturnal. I thought about take my double barrel shotgun and load one up with #6 and the other one with buck shot, just incase a shootable buck walks by.

Thanks. I’m not sure just how good this new place might be but I’m going to find out. There are quite a few squirrels in there for a fact.

Much of hunting is about location, IMO. You can’t kill them if they aren’t there. After finding them then it’s up to us to do our part properly.

Gum Slough Muzzleloader · Tuesday at 7:03 PM

ETipp said:
Much of hunting is about location, IMO. You can’t kill them if they aren’t there. After finding them then it’s up to us to do our part properly.

You're right about that.
After all we must do our part!

ETipp · Tuesday at 7:30 PM

Winds for the next three days. The weekend isn’t supposed to be much better. Check out the forecasted wind gusts. No squirrel hunting for ETipp.

Gum Slough Muzzleloader · Tuesday at 7:37 PM

ETipp said:
Winds for the next three days. The weekend isn’t supposed to be much better. Check out the forecasted wind gusts. No squirrel hunting for ETipp.

Just plan sad.

Jim K · Tuesday at 8:36 PM

Yep, wind and squirrel hunting don’t go together. Hang in there Ed, it’s got to get better!

Jim K · Tuesday at 9:14 PM

I had a good morning today in my new favorite spot. It was a calm( sorry Ed), cool morning. Squirrel activity was high.

I’ve been hunting a lot this year. I’ve been keeping a journal. This was day 35. Most days I just hunt mornings then go work in my shop.

This new area has lots of hickories and there are some still in the trees although most activity is on the ground now.

I have a funeral to attend tomorrow and bad weather the rest of the week. Monday looks ok. Family coming Tuesday for Thanksgiving then our rifle season starts the Saturday following thanksgiving. No squirrel hunting allowed during the two weeks of rifle season.

So it looks like I might only get out once more before then.

I’ve had a great season so far and look forward to getting after them again in a few weeks.

You guys will have to keep me entertained in the mean time.

10 spot · Tuesday at 9:29 PM

Jim K said:
I had a good morning today in my new favorite spot. It was a calm( sorry Ed), cool morning. Squirrel activity was high.

I’ve been hunting a lot this year. I’ve been keeping a journal. This was day 35. Most days I just hunt mornings then go work in my shop.

This new area has lots of hickories and there are some still in the trees although most activity is on the ground now.

I have a funeral to attend tomorrow and bad weather the rest of the week. Monday looks ok. Family coming Tuesday for Thanksgiving then our rifle season starts the Saturday following thanksgiving. No squirrel hunting allowed during the two weeks of rifle season.

So it looks like I might only get out once more before then.

I’ve had a great season so far and look forward to getting after them again in a few weeks.

You guys will have to keep me entertained in the mean time.View attachment 363191

10 spot · Tuesday at 9:32 PM

10 spot said:

Congradulations, JimK, mopped up looks like!

ETipp · Wednesday at 4:39 AM

Jim K said:
I had a good morning today in my new favorite spot. It was a calm( sorry Ed), cool morning. Squirrel activity was high.

I’ve been hunting a lot this year. I’ve been keeping a journal. This was day 35. Most days I just hunt mornings then go work in my shop.

This new area has lots of hickories and there are some still in the trees although most activity is on the ground now.

I have a funeral to attend tomorrow and bad weather the rest of the week. Monday looks ok. Family coming Tuesday for Thanksgiving then our rifle season starts the Saturday following thanksgiving. No squirrel hunting allowed during the two weeks of rifle season.

So it looks like I might only get out once more before then.

I’ve had a great season so far and look forward to getting after them again in a few weeks.

You guys will have to keep me entertained in the mean time.View attachment 363191

Awesome day of hunting for sure. Congrats to you. Well done.

Gum Slough Muzzleloader · Wednesday at 7:20 AM

Jim K said:
I had a good morning today in my new favorite spot. It was a calm( sorry Ed), cool morning. Squirrel activity was high.

I’ve been hunting a lot this year. I’ve been keeping a journal. This was day 35. Most days I just hunt mornings then go work in my shop.

This new area has lots of hickories and there are some still in the trees although most activity is on the ground now.

I have a funeral to attend tomorrow and bad weather the rest of the week. Monday looks ok. Family coming Tuesday for Thanksgiving then our rifle season starts the Saturday following thanksgiving. No squirrel hunting allowed during the two weeks of rifle season.

So it looks like I might only get out once more before then.

I’ve had a great season so far and look forward to getting after them again in a few weeks.

You guys will have to keep me entertained in the mean time.View attachment 363191

Good for you Jim.
Looks like you are on a roll, keep it going.

ETipp · Thursday at 6:04 AM

Gale force winds continue here in KY. Temps dropped big time. Hoping to be able to go back over to that area and looking around more soon. It’s a huge area overall with a couple of small backroads. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a promising looking place that’s out of the wind to hunt for later on. Lots of pretty good size hills over there with some deep hollows.

One thing is for certain. The squirrels are not going to come to me. If I want to kill some, I gotta get out there and locate them first. Worst case scenario, I do like to scout new areas. It’s like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.

longcruise · Thursday at 7:55 PM

Our weather is looking up but I have family coming in Saturday to stay through Thanksgiving. I and the grandsons will get something done. Would love to get after some Aberts.

Meanwhile, my little Pineys get no respect

Jim K · Thursday at 8:17 PM

longcruise said:
Our weather is looking up but I have family coming in Saturday to stay through Thanksgiving. I and the grandsons will get something done. Would love to get after some Aberts.

Meanwhile, my little Pineys get no respect

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Long cruise, tell me about the Aberts squirrels. Are they common? Do they get hunted a lot? Etc. They’re beautiful squirrels.

ETipp · 2024-11-22T04:38:59-0500

Jim K said:
Long cruise, tell me about the Aberts squirrels. Are they common? Do they get hunted a lot? Etc. They’re beautiful squirrels.

Me thinks there's another road trip in the making.

Jim K · 2024-11-22T06:37:12-0500

ETipp said:
Me thinks there's another road trip in the making.

You want to go Ed??

Jim K · 2024-11-22T08:28:58-0500

We could swing by the colony and thin them down too!!

yellowhammer · 2024-11-22T08:56:45-0500

I did TDY's out West in my prior life. It's cool to see those Alberts squirrels w/ ear tufts - he's an elegant feller. Numerous around Fort Carson.

PS Those Douglas squirrels you see around Yakima and Mount Ranier have tufted ears but much less pronounced; also a handsome dude as rodent's go lol.

yellowhammer · 2024-11-22T09:19:38-0500

I think there is real avoidance of contact with squirrels and rodents around the four corners region out there due to fear of hantavirus. Others with more knowledge on this speak up.

However, shooting prairie dogs at a distance is almost a blood-lust obsession with some of those guys LOL...

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