Hunting Situation #6

[musketman]

You are out hunting squirrels with a .32 caliber percussion rifle and you shoot a large gray squirrel in a tall oak, the squirrel falls and get stuck in the "V" of the tree's trunk about 16 feet above the ground...

How do you get it out?

Do you...
Climb up after it?
Try to knock it out with a long branch?
Leave it there and go shoot another?
Keep pumping lead into it until whats left finally falls?

 

Been there done that.
Leave it there and get 'nuther'n. Somethin'll eat it fore long.

 

You're hunting wood ducks. Daily bag limit is two. You jump a woodie off a creek and it flys downstrean directly away 3 feet off the water. You shoot it, making a clean shot with 1 oz. #4's. It falls in the middle of the creek out of reach.
You know there is a tree across the creek 100 yards downstream and it will float there in a couple minutes. You walk out on the tree and reach down for the duck and there are THREE dead woodies.
Do you????
Leave one?
Pick up all three and turn yourself into the game warden?
Collect all three for supper and brag about the shot forever? :thumbsupwhere have we heard THIS story before?)
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

 

[Doc Contender]

Been there too! When I was young, I went up the tree or found a long stick. Now I send the kids up the tree.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yep. LOL! There's always a spindly maple that needs thinning out. If its WAY up in a tree I've gone up a ways to get closer. Had several make it to a nest hole or a hollow in the base of an ancient oak or hickory. Not much can be done then.

You know, it's funny but I think trees have changed or mutated. 25 years ago I found it easier to climb the very same trees on my back hill. Wonder if it's acid rain or something?

That's why a .54 is a good squirrel caliber. Gets them away from the tree so they drop clear to the ground. ::

Have also had some climbing activity when my blunt tipped arrows embed in the thick bark of a hickory. They ain't supposed to pin 'em there, like some butterfly or sumpin.

 

[54JNoll]

If the tree is climbable I would go after it. If not some other animal will get it.

As to the ducks ... I would take all three and call the game warden and explain what happened. Unless you have a habit of these things happening to you you normally have nothing to fear about "turning yourself in"

 

Yes- 54JNoll- As for the ducks, YOU did the right thing, the thing we all feel is the RIGHT theng to do and what the Game branch advertizes as being the right thing to do. Several hunters in this city have done just that and - I'm afraid you've just lost your ducks, been fined $1,000, lost your shotgun and your hunting privelege for 5 years - BUT! thanks for being honest, though, that's what the game branch wants - honesty in hunters. Many of us will no longer be that honest, although we desire to do what is right & would never make mistakes on purpose.
: On the other hand, those who've been through the courts, no long buy licences & hunting is now easier for them - no tags to buy & the season now runs 12 months of the year. With only 2 game wardens for 10,000 sware miles, the hunting's great! Government staff reductions have caused this 'open season' for some. Oddly enough, is that charges for improper cancelling of tags still come to our courts along with new mistake makers who do the RIGHT thing.

 

[bob1961]

to avoid that you must know how to shoot and when to shoot so it falls out of the tree :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:...............................bob

p.s....after all we are to make every effort to retreive our game RIGHT

 

[trent/OH]

Dead squirrel sttuck up in the tree? What do you think tomahawks are for? Cutting down trees of course!
A buddy and I were hunting on an island in the Wisconsin River in college, and he shot the biggest squirrel either of us had ever seen. It died up in the tree. By the time I canoed back to the car, fetched my tomahawk, then got back to the island, it had the sense to fall out of the tree. Man, I am glad I didn't have to cut down that tree!!!

 

[54JNoll]

at least I would have the comfort of know I did the right thing. Then I would have to tell my wife to get back out in those woods to get our meat.