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Etipp, that is in interesting observation about the overly large grey, or grey/fox squirrel cross. Could it also be that the black mush in the stomach was the black hull covering of a black walnut? It is pretty dark under the green outer layer. I don't know what the squirrels do with that stuff when they are chewing down to the shell for the meat, eat it or spit it out, but they do gnaw on it. I went out for the first time this season in Ohio Wednesday evening using a scoped 22, as I am need to check the sight in of the .32 and didn't have time when I finally had a chance to slip over to John's place late in the day. The first of the two I bagged was in the process of chewing the rind off the nut when the little bullet toppled it off the limb. I could clearly see what he was doing through the 4X before squeezing the trigger, and the partially uncovered shell was laying next to him on the ground.
Then again, it very well may be black gum fruit.
I was reading through a thread on another forum of a gentleman who has recorded over 50,000 squirrel kills in his lifetime. His knowledge of what squirrels eat is amazing. If you want I can copy and past what he has witnessed them eating, and not eating during the different seasons of the year.
Oh, and another thing to add, about 35 years ago while hunting squirrels in the big Beech woods I used to go to I did drop a sow fox squirrel that did indeed have a womb full of unborn squirrels. First and last for me, but it happens at times.
Good thread. I hope to pull out the Cherokee and join you making smoke in the squirrel woods this Fall.
Then again, it very well may be black gum fruit.
I was reading through a thread on another forum of a gentleman who has recorded over 50,000 squirrel kills in his lifetime. His knowledge of what squirrels eat is amazing. If you want I can copy and past what he has witnessed them eating, and not eating during the different seasons of the year.
Oh, and another thing to add, about 35 years ago while hunting squirrels in the big Beech woods I used to go to I did drop a sow fox squirrel that did indeed have a womb full of unborn squirrels. First and last for me, but it happens at times.
Good thread. I hope to pull out the Cherokee and join you making smoke in the squirrel woods this Fall.