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

[Jim K]

Lol. They’ll keep coming!!

 

[snakebit]

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Cruiser we're gonna have to start referring to you as the Red Baron

 

[ETipp]

I started him off young. He loved it.

 

[snakebit]

I started him off young. He loved it.

He's tough enough ain't he?!

 

[ETipp]

He's tough enough ain't he?!

Sad thing is, he hasn’t squirrel hunting in years but he does deer hunt. So all is not lost.

 

[snakebit]

Sad thing is, he hasn’t squirrel hunting in years but he does deer hunt. So all is not lost.

He's probably of that age. I was that way once, too many irons in the fire. When I was a kid, full throttle squirrel hunting because I couldn't hunt deer. I'm sure he will come back around. I sure did.

 

[ETipp]

He's probably of that age. I was that way once, too many irons in the fire. When I was a kid, full throttle squirrel hunting because I couldn't hunt deer. I'm sure he will come back around. I sure did.

Hopefully so. My thoughts are, considering he only has to walk a short distance to sit and deer hunt, he's too lazy to walk around looking for squirrels.

 

[longcruise]

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[snakebit]

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That one looks pretty angry Cruiser! He's trying to separate those bars and run up your pant leg.

 

[longcruise]

That one looks pretty angry Cruiser! He's trying to separate those bars and run up your pant leg.

You got that right! this one was purely mean and angry. I saw #7 staring at me out of the pear tree. He's next.

 

[snakebit]

You got that right! this one was purely mean and angry. I saw #7 staring at me out of the pear tree. He's next.

I hope they don't get together and hatch a revenge plan

 

[Jim K]

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[Jim K]

O wee, that’s a pretty one!

 

[longcruise]

I hope they don't get together and hatch a revenge plan

I'm ready. They can " bring it" any time!!

O wee, that’s a pretty one!

It is. Was a heavyweight too.

 

[ETipp]

I hope they don't get together and hatch a revenge plan

Yep. LC might want to grow some eyeballs in the back of his head.

I can see it now. LC walks out his door and…….Wham, about 5 of those trained attack militia squirrels jumps off the roof on top of his head and on his back.

Squirrels are smart and they don’t forget, ya know.

 

[longcruise]

I ain't sceeered.... I ain't sceeered...... I ain't sceeered.......

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

They're coming for your brother!

 

[ETipp]

So, something interesting has happened in the den tree close to the back of my house. I looked out a couple of days ago and there was an old Tee-shirt of mine that I used as a grease rag hanging out of the hole. Yesterday I looked and it had been pulled up into the hole and something else that I couldn’t figure out what it is. Looking through my binoculars I determined it was part of an old grain sake from my chicken feed. Due to the dry season and higher winds, there’s been a burn ban. Both of those were put into my fire pit but not burned. At least one of my squirrel meters had somehow managed to climb the tree with them then somehow managed to drag them into the hole, thus blocking it completely off.

My guess is, and this is only a guess, there’s another hole on the back side and perhaps a momma squirrel wants the lower hole blocked off for her young. The young from fall/winter breading season should be born any time now. I’ve lived here 18 years now and never seen that den hole plugged off.

Squirrels sure are interesting little critters.

 

[longcruise]

@ETipp it's interesting what they will do. Maybe nesting material

I think I observed something new about my adversaries.

I haven't put the trap out for #7 yet because of incoming snow but the day after removal of #6 I observed a squirrel passing by the spot where I set the trap. It was very pensive and cautious. Circling the spot and jumping backwards then creeping up again. I think they can smell or sense the distress and fear of the previous catch.

After each catch it seems to take several days for the next one to get up the courage to enter the trap. I'm going to start hosing the trap down and setting it in a fresh spot.

Who knew that protecting the fruit trees would turn into a science experiment

 

[snakebit]

@ETipp it's interesting what they will do. Maybe nesting material

I think I observed something new about my adversaries.

I haven't put the trap out for #7 yet because of incoming snow but the day after removal of #6 I observed a squirrel passing by the spot where I set the trap. It was very pensive and cautious. Circling the spot and jumping backwards then creeping up again. I think they can smell or sense the distress and fear of the previous catch.

After each catch it seems to take several days for the next one to get up the courage to enter the trap. I'm going to start hosing the trap down and setting it in a fresh spot.

Who knew that protecting the fruit trees would turn into a science experiment

Have been seeing a lot more activity from the my local bunch from the backyard in recent days. My wife even commented I'm feeding them too good, and they are probably too big to eat, they would be too tough. She forgets I have a small pressure cooker, and 10 minutes in there make even the toughest boar squirrel fork tender. She's just too much of a picky eater. More for me