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

[ETipp]

Sometimes other breeds & mutts, will make fine squirrelers, for sure.

If you do a search on best rated squirrel dogs, you will be surprised at what you will find.

I tried to view the link JimK posted but it will not play for me. So, I used the title to do a net search and it pulled up. I do not know if that is a Cur dog because of the white, but it appears to be one, or perhaps a Cur/Terrier mix.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...97424f1baa0d0cb882bccbace50bc0a7&action=click

 

[yellowhammer]

Those are cool links, Ed, thanks for those.

Couple of other fun links with great info on treeing squirrel dogs:

These guys hold field trials; would be fun to experience: https://americantreeingfeist.com/

LOL "Atomic Feist" - sounds like he'd be a squirrel force to reckon with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349330195251592/

 

[ETipp]

Those are cool links, Ed, thanks for those.

Couple of other fun links with great info on treeing squirrel dogs:

These guys hold field trials; would be fun to experience: https://americantreeingfeist.com/

LOL "Atomic Feist" - sounds like he'd be a squirrel force to reckon with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/349330195251592/

Thanks, Stan. I will view those.

 

[smo]

I’m Brownie 3
Squirrels fear me….

I’m 2#, 4 ozs @7-8 weeks old.

Now I’m 16-17 weeks old…

 

[yellowhammer]

HAHA now THAT's a squirrel dog! Sic 'em Brownie!

 

[longcruise]

I’m 2#, 4 ozs @7-8 weeks old.

I don't think "squirrel dog" means it's the size of the squirrel.

The little schweenie dog that I posted a video above just had her 10th birthday. Her eyes are failing and she's definitely a sight hunter but she misses a lot nowadays. In her younger days she has caught a couple squirrels and killed them. Also a few birds. But, even in her prime she was too small to navigate in the woods.

 

[Trigger]

My 3rd German pointer.

He use to sit in the window waiting for Squirrel to get in the yard. Smart dog.
Watched him get that tail right off one or two.

He caught mice in the house. Good at it.. that was a little loud at night around the house.

It's funny seeing the GSP in the window go all shaking when the Squirrel show up. Then it's off like a rocket the table chair and things go flying. All day the dog did that.

 

[smo]

 

[smo]

Ain’t no quit in this one….

 

[10 spot]

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I love hounds, big ole long ball mouth, long ears, oh yeah!

 

[smo]

We once owned a redbone that would tree squirrels,opossums & raccoon..

The only problem with her was it might be a 1/2 mile walk before she sat down to tree another squirrel.

All the feist I’ve owned worked in close ..

 

[yellowhammer]

We once owned a redbone that would tree squirrels,opossums & raccoon.. The only problem with her was it might be a 1/2 mile walk before she sat down to tree another squirrel...

My uncle had the prettiest matched pair of small runt-sized redbone hounds you ever saw, brother & sister, perfect duplicate red dogs, chop mouthed yippers, pure pleasure to hear and see them work a tree with a squirrel in it. LOL the squirrel didnt know what to do, would whip around like on a merry go round. You had to be quick when you shot the squirrel cause if they got it first they'd tear it to smithereens.

Like you say, if they came across a racoon or deer scent BOOM off they'd go like bats out of hades and you might not see them again till dark

 

[10 spot]

My uncle had the prettiest matched pair of small runt-sized redbone hounds you ever saw, brother & sister, perfect duplicate red dogs, chop mouthed yippers, pure pleasure to hear and see them work a tree with a squirrel in it. LOL the squirrel didnt know what to do, would whip around like on a merry go round. You had to be quick when you shot the squirrel cause if they got it first they'd tear it to smithereens.

Like you say, if they came across a racoon or deer scent BOOM off they'd go like bats out of hades and you might not see them again till dark

Here's my pup feller's, miss Southern Blue Daisy Lou.

 

[10 spot]

Here's my pup feller's, miss Southern Blue Daisy Lou. View attachment 368993

Thanks for the thumbs up, She's grown now, she will chase a squirrel
Till , it run up tree, never open her mouth, I train her on rabbit, you never
Herd such a fus, on the track she bawl mouth, more of a pet and companion than anything else.
Spoiled rotten.

 

[10 spot]

Thanks for the thumbs up, She's grown now, she will chase a squirrel
Till , it run up tree, never open her mouth, I train her on rabbit, you never
Herd such a fus, on the track she bawl mouth, more of a pet and companion than anything else.
Spoiled rotten.

Hello, ETipp, Jim K, GSM, and all
Involved, men, women, Children ETc.
I'm Happy to announce primos gen3
Bi-pos stick, on the way! (Why) You
May ask? I wobble like a weeble wobble, and sometime fall Down)
Can't wait to try'm out, my next Squirrel adventure.

Thanks for the thumbs up, She's grown now, she will chase a squirrel
Till , it run up tree, never open her mouth, I train her on rabbit, you never
Herd such a fus, on the track she bawl mouth, more of a pet and companion than anything else.
Spoiled rotten.

 

[reddogge]

Here's a picture of a Delmarva Fox squirrel next to a Sika hind in Dorchester Co.,MD. They are much bigger that a gray squirrel but protected by the state.

 

[10 spot]

Here's a picture of a Delmarva Fox squirrel next to a Sika hind in Dorchester Co.,MD. They are much bigger that a gray squirrel but protected by the state. View attachment 369009

Beautiful color, and Big! Not any around central NC, have to go east
To the sand Hill of NC. I might with
Some luck hit one of those. There legal to hunt in NC.

 

[Daytime Smoker]

Here's a picture of a Delmarva Fox squirrel next to a Sika hind in Dorchester Co.,MD. They are much bigger that a gray squirrel but protected by the state. View attachment 369009

I would like to get after one of those Sikas one day. No meaning to be off topic. Just thinking out loud. And you say those are Delmarva Fox Squirrels? Are they only in that that area of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia?

Daytime

 

[ETipp]

Crisis averted!

In prep for going hunting soon I decided to refill all of my powder tubes. I had them all laid out on a table and would only reach way over to grab one at a time. I had refilled about 7out of 12 of them and put the tops on, then I thought to do my usual check. So, I picked up each one of them to see about how much powder was in each tube. That's when I found one tube I had refilled that the powder level was way up there, and I do mean way up there. Instantly I knew what had happened.

That one tube must have been from when I was deer hunting with my .54 GPR. I use 90 grains of 3F. However, what I had done, and due to a label that had most of the tube covered, not only did it contain 90 grains, but I also charged it with another 20 grains. So, that would have been a 110 grain charge in Mr. Crockett, if I hadn't caught it while reloading. Me thinks Mr. C would have gotten a little indigestion on that one.

 

[10 spot]

Crisis averted!

In prep for going hunting soon I decided to refill all of my powder tubes. I had them all laid out on a table and would only reach way over to grab one at a time. I had refilled about 7out of 12 of them and put the tops on, then I thought to do my usual check. So, I picked up each one of them to see about how much powder was in each tube. That's when I found one tube I had refilled that the powder level was way up there, and I do mean way up there. Instantly I knew what had happened.

That one tube must have been from when I was deer hunting with my .54 GPR. I use 90 grains of 3F. However, what I had done, and due to a label that had most of the tube covered, not only did it contain 90 grains, but I also charged it with another 20 grains. So, that would have been a 110 grain charge in Mr. Crockett, if I hadn't caught it while reloading. Me thinks Mr. C would have gotten a little indigestion on that one.

Yep! I've got 5 tubes missing can't fine them, may have lost'm when I
Got my deer, I'm git'n terrible about
Remembering and keeping up with stuff, So, your not alone ole pal.