squrrils qivering in there nests.

[nwtradegun]

he word is out on the chatter line. I will behaving squrril stew for dinner on 8-15. the squrril killer is out in the woods. :thumbsup:

 

[George]

I hope you do as well as these fellows did. :haha:

"The Pennsylvania Gazette
Date: November 28, 1765
BOSTON, November 14.
We hear from Stoughton, that on Monday, the 4th of this Instant, Twenty Men went out in the Morning to hunt after squirrels, who returned the same Evening, having killed 1563 of those Animals."

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

That comes out to roughly 1 squirrel every 9 minutes per man over 12 hours.... :youcrazy: :shocked2:

 

[gunmaker43]

Did they have a mule to pack the ammo ?

 

[coloradoclyde]

That's a minimum of 78 shots/squirrels per man....if no one misses...
That's hard to fathom...

 

[Spikebuck]

I hope you do as well as these fellows did. :haha:

"The Pennsylvania Gazette
... who returned the same Evening, having killed 1563 of those Animals."

Spence

With laws and limits today that sounds like a good way to end up on a future episode of "Game Wardens!" :grin:

 

[George]

That's a minimum of 78 shots/squirrels per man....if no one misses...
That's hard to fathom...

There are quite a few reports from the 18th and early 19th century of plagues of squirrels, like lemmings, pouring down from the north by the millions, destroying crops and mast so that farmers and their animals were starving. They got together as a community effort to try protecting themselves from them, killed immense numbers of them. Blane, Ohio Valley, 1922-23:

"In parts of Ohio, the people attempted to destroy them by means of guns, dogs, and clubs. One party of hunters, in the course of a week, killed upwards of 19,000. In most places however, there were such multitudes of them, that the inhabitants quite despaired of being able to rid themselves of this plague."

I would assume the party of 20 who killed 1563 in one day were doing it as such an effort.

Spence