2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........
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This is one of my squirrel meters just a little while ago (1430 hours). He is, without doubt, teasing me. He knows I won’t shoot him.
See what I mean. He is eating on an old nut of some sort from last all. IMO, the squirrels are hungry right now. I think a squirrel can be seen all throughout the day. You just never know when or where. This definitely calls for some patients and determination. A major departure from high action, fall-time during squirrel stupid season. How much do you want to be successful and are you willing to pay the price to score some squirrels during such difficult times?
See what I mean. He is eating on an old nut of some sort from last all. IMO, the squirrels are hungry right now. I think a squirrel can be seen all throughout the day. You just never know when or where. This definitely calls for some patients and determination. A major departure from high action, fall-time during squirrel stupid season. How much do you want to be successful and are you willing to pay the price to score some squirrels during such difficult times?
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Jim K
50 Cal.
Keep the stories comin Ed. I’ve got this evening and tomorrow morning left to turkey hunt then all attention will be on squirrels. Your updates help. Good luck and drink lots of water!!
Not just squirrels in the olden days. Indians used to call early Spring "starving time". That’s when you find out if the food you stored up last year is enough; sometimes it wasn’t. It’s still going to be a while before anything you can sustain yourself on, plant-wise, is ready from the garden or in the woods. You've cleaned out most of the close-by wild game. Fishing became a serious endeavor. Scrounging for chestnuts, too, I imagine.
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Was 86 here today, I started mowing about 11:30 when the dew was all burned off, had several run in front of me mowing. Stopped to get a drink of water and one came running out of my garage! I guess they figure I feed them, so they can do as they please
Good to see you went with the brass rod Ed!
Jim K
50 Cal.
Do you like the brass rod Ed?
They've totally disappeared around my yard. I dunno, new hawk in area? Maybe they're off gorging on cicadas somewhere?
Yes sir, I certainly do.
I dunno, I haven't paid much attention to it lately. It just stays swollen but to heck with it, I have things to do so let er swell. I can deal with what little pain there is.
Interesting.
Some days I think about stopping their handouts (I have 3 squirrel feeders), but I kind of like watching the little fellers. If I fill the squirrel feeders, the birds get a chance to eat some of their grub before the bushy tails eat it all. Never a shortage of them around though.
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As for their spring diet, I know they feed heavily on all the new tree buds. An over population can create a lot of damage doing that. And like @yellowhammer posted, they definitely eat a variety of insects. Even bird eggs are on their menu.
Indeed. Monday morning on one squirrel that I missed, I was focused on another one just a few feet away that was hanging on the side of a sapling looking at me. About the time I was ready to aim something else caught my eye. It was another squirrel closer yet and was inside the end of a big old dead log. The squirrel was digging inside in the dirt, or perhaps decayed wood. Considering the log was laying flat on the ground, I figured the squirrel must have been digging for insects. Either way, I missed. My own fault.
The next time I go in there I plan on looking in where that squirrel was digging to see what it might have been he was so interested in. I have been considering the fact that the squirrels omnivore traits may be part of their diets at this difficult time.
Also, it might be conducive to do an exam of the stomach contents on some squirrels now.
Jim, Monday morning there was a Tom gobbling pretty darn close to me while I was squirrel hunting. He gobbled for quite some time, until I shot a squirrel. The next time I heard him, he was way off in the distance to where I could barely hear it at all.
Jim K
50 Cal.
Man I love that sound. Nothing like it. I’ve spent a lot of money and drove lots of miles chasing them. Don’t regret a dime or the miles. But alas this is my last morning to hunt them this spring. LolView attachment 321901
Jim K
50 Cal.
Oops. Sorry for the unmentionable barrel in the picture. Wasn’t thinking!! Can’t figure out how to remove it.
I just coned the barrel of my .32 Crockett. Those tiny balls and and my big fingers make loading, especially with gloves on was pretty impossible. The balls start easy now with thumb pressure, and loading is much easier. Love this gun.
Unfortunately where I live in Vermont we only have a fall season, opens September first. But we do have a “red squirrel” season that runs year round. Those little buggers chew up the sap lines that the maple syrup makers put out, so getting permission is pretty easy.
Unfortunately where I live in Vermont we only have a fall season, opens September first. But we do have a “red squirrel” season that runs year round. Those little buggers chew up the sap lines that the maple syrup makers put out, so getting permission is pretty easy.
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I was seeing gobs of squaw root sprouts when I was morel hunting back in early April. If the squaw root had been morels, I woulda been in heaven. Tons of ‘em. Not more than a handful of morels.
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