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

[Jim K]

I care!! September 9 here in PA and I can’t wait.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

17 days remaining, but who the heck cares about squirrel hunting. Oh, wait a minute..............

I do.....
But I have over 2 months to go....

 

[smokepolehall]

Mine is open now ! I have couple of problems before i can go. Ticks/Chiggers/Heat. Yup as noted by the Gum Slough, skeeters, snakes. If i was at home in the Delta you could add gators to the list.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Mine is open now ! I have couple of problems before i can go. Ticks/Chiggers/Heat.

Down here I'll be dealing with
Ticks/Chiggers/Mosquitos/Snakes...
Oh My!

 

[Banjoman]

Down here I'll be dealing with
Ticks/Chiggers/Mosquitos/Snakes...
Oh My!

Same in East Tennessee

 

[Nav]

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.

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.

 

[ORBushman]

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.

 

[JC Mendyka]

My mountain feist is ready, as am I. Might be a bit warm but I will be fine.

 

[appalichian hunter]

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.

 

[JC Mendyka]

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.

 

[Hermit Tim]

Skeeters are one thing I seldom have to deal with in these parts, thank God. I hate those things.

Here in Tennessee they are the state bird. Saw one carrying a poodle away the other day.

 

[Banjoman]

Skeeters are one thing I seldom have to deal with in these parts, thank God. I hate those things.

Where in Kentucky are you that you seldom have to deal with skeeters?

 

[ETipp]

Mine is open now ! I have couple of problems before i can go. Ticks/Chiggers/Heat. Yup as noted by the Gum Slough, skeeters, snakes. If i was at home in the Delta you could add gators to the list.

Where would that be?

 

[smokepolehall]

Where in Kentucky are you that you seldom have to deal with skeeters?

Ed is just east of the Cumberland lake on the north end. He likes the steep hilly country.

 

[smokepolehall]

Where would that be?

Mo. Once they open the Spring season it stays open til Feb.

 

[Gopher0]

Wait for first frost the wolves leave then shoot a 69 smoothie or a 45 cal long rifle loaded with small shot

 

[TDM]

That would be an interesting hunt there.

I’d opt for my .45 on those just to be sure.

 

[appalichian hunter]

I’d opt for my .45 on those just to be sure.

Make sure you DRT that critter on the first shot, or it might be hawk time. As to the 45 that's great but I want big balls to tap that critter in more than one way.

 

[snakebit]

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.

 

[snakebit]

Leaves up smoothie. Leaves down rifle.

Added a T/C Newenglander 12gauge to the arsenal for This year. And my 32's will get some time in the woods too.