Squirrel hunt pictures

[fw707]

Here are a couple of pictures from the last week of squirrel season here in KY.
My cousin Jerry and I hunted the last few days with his dogs and our muzzleloaders. He took a .32 caplock he built, and I took a .40 caliber flinter I got from Tip Curtis. We killed a total of 12, and most of 'em had their noggins mashed. :grin:

 

[Wehrmacht]

That's OK! Nothin' beats squirrel hunting and catching hogs :thumbsup: . Tell me a little about the dogs if you will.

 

[roundball]

Looks like a good hunt !
:hatsoff:

 

[jeepwj992002]

Good huntin!!! :hatsoff:

 

[fw707]

That's OK! Nothin' beats squirrel hunting and catching hogs :thumbsup: . Tell me a little about the dogs if you will.

Well, Bear,the little black and tan dog in Jerry's lap, is just a mixed-up feist of some sort, and he's a squirrel-treeing fool! :grin:
The dog in the box, BJ, is a "mountain feist". He's about 15 months old, and he's showing a lot of promise right now. I think he'll be a good dog by the end of next year.
Here's a better picture of BJ:

 

[davy]

Good all the way around!
:hatsoff:
Davy

 

[Wehrmacht]

Thanks for the photos. If a fella is a dog man, there's not much that's more fun than training up a squirrel dog and hunting with it. That's about where I am now, and I've got an Airedale and a Rat Terrier that are pretty good. Coon hunting is a young man's game,and I'm too old now to run with the dogs half the night and do any work the next day. Too many hard roads to fox hunt anymore 'cept in a penned up area, and that ain't fox hunting. Man can't afford to spend money keeping and hunting dogs and having them get run over in the highway. I do hog hunt a good bit, and that's satisfying my intense drive to work with dogs in the woods :winking: We can't bear hunt with dogs at home in North Georgia any more. It's still OK over on the North Carolina side of the line, but Lord God at the laurel thickets and rock cliffs over there! No bear hunting at all in Florida anymore,and we're being over-run with bears. Squirrel hunting and catching hogs with dogs is about all left for me now....thank God it's fun!

 

[rabjr]

Nice! :thumbsup:

 

[jethro224]

Good shootin'! :hatsoff:

 

[KyFlintlock]

Great job!! That looks like a hoot.

What part of Ky ya'll from?
wess

 

[fw707]

der Forster, I'm gettin a feist pup around the first of June, so I'll have one of my own to chase after this Fall! :grin:

wess, I live in the Eastern end about 40 minutes from the WV line.

Thanks everybody for the replies! :hatsoff:

 

[shmrck1]

FW,
Congratulations on a fine hunt. What fun it
is to harvest them with a M/L. Nothing left to
do now but to cook them up and enjoy.
snake-eyes :hatsoff:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Squack is good eating anyway you shoot 'em but head shot beats picking out #6's anytime unless you have a taste for the brains which I don't. I enjoy canoeing down the river here by the cornfields and taking them, cornfed squack is fine eating.

 

[Bearbait2]

Mr. Blizzard of 93,
Any idea as to how Squirrels came to be named: "Squack"?
Just curious.
Best Wishes

 

[fw707]

Mr. Blizzard of 93,
Any idea as to how Squirrels came to be named: "Squack"?
Just curious.
Best Wishes

Yep, cause that's the noise they make. :winking:
Some folks call it barking or chattering, but where I grew up we always called it squacking.
If they'd keep their mouths shut and their tails still, a lot more of 'em would make it through the season alive. :rotf:

 

[Bearbait2]

Mr. fw707,
Thank you.
Best Wishes

 

[Ron LaClair]

My beagle loves squirrel hunting as much or more than rabbit hunting.

 

[fw707]

Great picture!! :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I think you are correct, I've heard 'em called 'squacks' since day one, don't know the orgin. Do know for a fact that some of the 'Old Timers" (don't know any still around) declared the brains a real delicacy, I don't care for 'em myself.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Nice looking beagle. I know what you're saying about their fondness for squack hunting, I wonder if it ain't seeing something falling out of the trees that gets dogs riled. or maybe getting a reward, I field dress mine immediately and always gave the liver, lungs and heart to the dog as a reward. they loved it. I no longer have a dog, the last one I had was a King Charles Spaniel that was a fine hunter, small game or birds, water or field or forest.