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2023 Fall Squirrel Season...........

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20,203 squirrel season!?! That far in the future, the squirrels may be the size of bears! We will have rayguns, hopefully…..
Actually by that time they'll be the size of a beetle. The Pleistocene is when mammals were megafauna. That era squirrel was a Kopiodon. It was about a yard long, weighed five pounds, and had saber-like canine teeth for defense and battle (molars for eating plants and nuts). Probably the size of a big boar racoon, but a little longer.
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I'll eat them stewed in a crockpot, but I have tried my whole life to like fried squirrel, and I just don't. I quit bothering with tree rats a long time ago. Now I only care about them if they eat my tomatoes, and in hot years when that happens I am much more of a genocidal exterminator than a hunter. Gammo, break style, .177 ballistic tip, 3-9X, 1275fps...lights out.
 
Sept. 1-Nov. 15th here for our western grey squirrel. If I can get out and after them, my .32 Crockett will be the critter gitter of choice.
 
Actually by that time they'll be the size of a beetle. The Pleistocene is when mammals were megafauna. That era squirrel was a Kopiodon. It was about a yard long, weighed five pounds, and had saber-like canine teeth for defense and battle (molars for eating plants and nuts). Probably the size of a big boar racoon, but a little longer.
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I'll eat them stewed in a crockpot, but I have tried my whole life to like fried squirrel, and I just don't. I quit bothering with tree rats a long time ago. Now I only care about them if they eat my tomatoes, and in hot years when that happens I am much more of a genocidal exterminator than a hunter. Gammo, break style, .177 ballistic tip, 3-9X, 1275fps...lights out.
That would be an interesting hunt there.
 
Actually by that time they'll be the size of a beetle. The Pleistocene is when mammals were megafauna. That era squirrel was a Kopiodon. It was about a yard long, weighed five pounds, and had saber-like canine teeth for defense and battle (molars for eating plants and nuts). Probably the size of a big boar racoon, but a little longer.
This was an awesome post.
 
Always loved squirrel hunting. A standard sized peanut butter jar will hold 5 de-boned squirrels. And that stack nice and tidy in the freezer.
 
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