First day of my Kentucky fall squirrel season this morning. a little delayed. It opened on Saturday, and I was planing to hunt then, but on Friday afternoon, with all my gear packed and me raring to go, I stepped on a nest of yellow jackets and got about 30 stings in as many seconds for my trouble. I don't recommend it. Finally felt near enough to normal this morning to give it a try, and it was a fun hunt. It was cool, and there was a pretty heavy fog all over the area. The woods were beautiful when I arrived at sunrise, heavy mist in the air, dew drops sparkling everywhere, wind calm and not a sound to be heard. I hunted into the sun, and the bright haze and a multitude of shafts of sunlight striking through the foliage were worth the trip. We are having another season of light mast, I think, and I had trouble finding squirrels, found no cuttings of any kind. I did see 4 squirrels, 2 gray, 2 fox, collected only one, a young gray. That was an interesting shot. I was skulking along a fence row with some small walnut trees when I saw, about 20 yards out, what looked like the head and shoulders of a squirrel in an opening, dead into the sun so that I was seeing a pure silhouette, only. I put the bead on him and watched, not at all sure it was even a squirrel. Everything was still for a long time. Then he twitched. Not a good idea.
I was carrying my 20 ga. smoothbore loaded with 70 gr. 2F, equal volume of #6, using tow for wadding. It was one of those days when everything stays wet all the time, and, after my shot, the pan turned to soup before I finished reloading.
Spence
I was carrying my 20 ga. smoothbore loaded with 70 gr. 2F, equal volume of #6, using tow for wadding. It was one of those days when everything stays wet all the time, and, after my shot, the pan turned to soup before I finished reloading.
Spence
