Great morning in the squirrel woods

[kenfoerst]

First heavy frost on Wednesday morning had the Missouri squirrels on the move. Had fried squirrel when I got back to the campsite. I think I loaded a little too heavy for the squirrels but I thought there was an excellent chance to get a shot at a turkey. Just had to let them get out a little further.

 

[ncmtmike]

Man-o-man 6 of them! supper going to be good to-nite! Congrats!

 

[George]

First class hunt and great pictures. Good job. Thanks.

Spence

 

[Ole Mule]

Impressive!!! Beautiful Rifle.

 

[roundball]

Excellent outing, congratulations !!
:hatsoff:

You mentioned a possible turkey...what size shot were you using?

 

[hanshi]

Whoa! That's what I call a dream day in the woods. Great haul.

 

[Thomas S]

Love them bushy tails!

 

[PJC]

Memories that will last a life time.
Thanks for taking the time to share it with a bunch of guys that appreciate it.

PJC

 

[kenfoerst]

Roundball, I have been using a 100 grain measure of #5 shot in the 20 gauge and 80 grains of Goex 3F. Seems to do an excellent job on the squirrels. Got six out of seven that I shot at up to 40 yards. I have also been experimenting with #6 shot to get a little denser pattern for turkey out of my jug choke barrel.

 

[ny griz]

"NICE" :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Griz

 

[roundball]

Roundball, I have been using a 100 grain measure of #5 shot in the 20 gauge and 80 grains of Goex 3F. Seems to do an excellent job on the squirrels. Got six out of seven that I shot at up to 40 yards. I have also been experimenting with #6 shot to get a little denser pattern for turkey out of my jug choke barrel.

Yeah, I'd say so, LOL...I use about the same...100grns #5s & 70grns Goex 3F, also jugged.

 

[sb 54 cal.]

Fine squirrel hunting in the fall you can't beat it. Been going out with my 28 ga. looking for Turkey also but havn't shot any tree rats with my turkey load. How do you like the jug choke? Thinking about doing that to mine. By the way who made the gun love it being a lefty myself :grin: Pappy

 

[jamesthomas]

Man!, that's some good shooting :applause: 6 squirrels will make a good batch of fried squirrel an gravy with a few home baked biscuits to sop up afterwards. Btw, that's a very nice smoothbore you have there, I'm a lefty also.

 

[kenfoerst]

Pappy, the gun is from a Jim Chambers Pennsylvania Fowler kit and was built by Ed Wenger at Virginia Flintlocks. I like the jug choke and think that it gave me about an extra ten yards on turkey. With the loads that I am shooting it went from a 25 yard turkey pattern to a 35 yard pattern. It would probably kill a turkey at 40 yards a good percentage of the time but I wouldn't trust it without a little more testing. Danny Caywood did the jug choke.

 

[wattlebuster]

I love the color on those fox squirrels. Great looking smoothbore. Danny Caywood jug choked both my smoothbores and they shoot great. :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

 

[Spikebuck]

Nice job! :hatsoff: Looks like you need to carry a fish stringer with you. :wink:

 

[Silex]

Congratulations!

:thumbsup:

Wonderful pictures of a great hunt.


Silex

 

[Britsmoothy]

Excellent....good photos :hatsoff:

B.

 

[DLJ6]

Very nice shotgun and mess of squirrels. Are those Mo. Fox squirrels much tougher to chew than the greys? They are here in Virginia. Ed is turning out some very fine shooting irons. I had a chance to buy the 17th gun he made...it was a sweet little Issac Haines .32. I hesitated to think it over and somebody else jumped on it.

 

[kenfoerst]

Not sure the Fox squirrels are any tougher than Grey. In my opinion, both are tough when they are old and require different preparation. I sort of like young fox squirrels because they are a little bigger and still tender. I generally mark them when I clean them(by putting a slice through the rib cage) to tell the old from the young when I get home. The way that I age them (if in doubt) is the way the rear legs bend before they break when they are cut off. If they are brittle and snap without bending, I mark them as old squirrels.