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

[ETipp]

Looking good there Stan. I’m glad things are working out well for you.

 

[snakebit]

🤦🤔❓️👀

He's modest too!

 

[yellowhammer]

Good shooting, looks like you got a sound rifle. Now go get you some squirrel

Thanks, Duk. I have a work day tomorrow at my property, and I'll take some time to scout around some more, maybe take a shot if the opportunity arises. 85 miles distant. I don't have confidence, though. It's rugged 78 acre Appalachian terrain, and I haven't scouted over every part of it, but the lack of dreys and nests where I would normally see them is disconcerting. My fallback is "The pawpaw patch", a spot on a NWR closer to me, on the TN River, that I know has a large population of the them. We'll see. I'm not salivating to slaughter them by the dozens. I just want to relax and harvest a few and re-live my youth.

 

[snakebit]

Thanks, Duk. I have a work day tomorrow at my property, and I'll take some time to scout around some more, maybe take a shot if the opportunity arises. 85 miles distant. I don't have confidence, though. It's rugged 78 acre Appalachian terrain, and I haven't scouted over every part of it, but the lack of dreys and nests where I would normally see them is disconcerting. My fallback is "The pawpaw patch", a spot on a NWR closer to me, on the TN River, that I know has a large population of the them. We'll see. I'm not salivating to slaughter them by the dozens. I just want to relax and harvest a few and re-live my youth.

Shoot a few. Be a good excuse for mamma to make you a pan of biscuits 😉

 

[ETipp]

Thanks, Duk. I have a work day tomorrow at my property, and I'll take some time to scout around some more, maybe take a shot if the opportunity arises. 85 miles distant. I don't have confidence, though. It's rugged 78 acre Appalachian terrain, and I haven't scouted over every part of it, but the lack of dreys and nests where I would normally see them is disconcerting. My fallback is "The pawpaw patch", a spot on a NWR closer to me, on the TN River, that I know has a large population of the them. We'll see. I'm not salivating to slaughter them by the dozens. I just want to relax and harvest a few and re-live my youth.

Stan, in all actuality, I’ve killed way more squirrels in my life in areas where there were no visible dreys. There may be many den trees there that you never see. Also, squirrels will travel a few hundred yards on a daily basis for nut crops, twice a day or more. Then we have squirrel stupid season that will be upon us in a couple of weeks. Squirrels will be everywhere on the ground digging for nuts that have fallen.

It might pay off to check that area out. 78 acres is a lot of ground so you’re bound to find squirrels during stupid season. That is unless the area has been logged recently.

 

[Duk]

Thanks, Duk. I have a work day tomorrow at my property, and I'll take some time to scout around some more, maybe take a shot if the opportunity arises. 85 miles distant. I don't have confidence, though. It's rugged 78 acre Appalachian terrain, and I haven't scouted over every part of it, but the lack of dreys and nests where I would normally see them is disconcerting. My fallback is "The pawpaw patch", a spot on a NWR closer to me, on the TN River, that I know has a large population of the them. We'll see. I'm not salivating to slaughter them by the dozens. I just want to relax and harvest a few and re-live my youth.

I'm with you if I can get enough for a few good meals I'll be happy.
And Ed is probably correct, i know around here den trees are quite common. I didn't realize it until i started to hunt them this year.

 

[ETipp]

I'm with you if I can get enough for a few good meals I'll be happy.
And Ed is probably correct, i know around here den trees are quite common. I didn't realize it until i started to hunt them this year.

Wife showed me a video she found on FB of a guy that cut a smaller tree, perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter. He was using a hand saw and the tree was fairly horizontal. He said he heard a screeching sound about half way through and thought it was his saw blade bonding. When he cut all the way through the tree, he said this is what he found. It was about 3-4 inches of a fox squirrel tail. 😁

Ya just never know for sure what tree a squirrel might have found to use as a den. On more than one occasion I have stopped, sat or stood by the same tree that I had no idea was den tree. Then one day “prang” all of a sudden a squirrel pops out. Also, many times while walking back and forth in the woods I have come across places that was the last place I thought I would see squirrels, but they were there nonetheless.

Interesting little buggers they are.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Wife showed me a video she found on FB of a guy that cut a smaller tree, perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter. He was using a hand saw and the tree was fairly horizontal. He said he heard a screeching sound about half way through and thought it was his saw blade bonding. When he cut all the way through the tree, he said this is what he found. It was about 3-4 inches of a fox squirrel tail. 😁

Ya just never know for sure what tree a squirrel might have found to use as a den.

Poor thing😟