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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 21, 2015 18:54:28 GMT -5
Add 1 blond to team #7. Me and deadeer each got one. So we didn't get skunked.
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Post by drs on Dec 22, 2015 5:38:59 GMT -5
OK going to have to take the 22 with while in the stand and do some multi tasking. Been seeing a crap load of the little buggers while deer hunting. Time to clean up! Hope you have better luck Squirrel Hunting, bullseye69, than I am having. No bagged Squirrels, for me, so far during our Winter season. ~unbelievable!! ~ Thinking about switching to my .410 -3" S/S instead of my .22 LR just in-case I see some later on after the Holidays.
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Dec 22, 2015 14:14:42 GMT -5
Woke up this morning to a gray squirrel in the garden. Not sure how I feel about them moving in. Add one more to team 1
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Post by schall53 on Dec 22, 2015 16:07:17 GMT -5
Woke up this morning to a gray squirrel in the garden. Not sure how I feel about them moving in. Add one more to team 1 Wow a gray squirrel in YOUR garden, he had to be tired of living and wanted to commit suicide.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 22, 2015 17:53:38 GMT -5
Woke up this morning to a gray squirrel in the garden. Not sure how I feel about them moving in. Add one more to team 1 Wow they are coming to you! You don't have to go and find them! He wasn't waving a white flag was he?
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Dec 23, 2015 14:10:35 GMT -5
Wow they are coming to you! You don't have to go and find them! He wasn't waving a white flag was he? No flag waving. I hear they don't get along too well with the fox squirrel and I surely don't them driven out. Don't know if I like these new critters being here or not. Also, add a damp one to Team 1
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 23, 2015 17:27:45 GMT -5
I have grays, blacks and the Fox's in my woods. Some days I see more of one than the other.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 23, 2015 18:32:58 GMT -5
IMO, I would take all grays and trade anyone for the fox. Grays clean easier, cook easier, and taste easier, I mean better, lol. Only issue with grays are they are way too skittish, where fox are lazy!
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Post by HighCotton on Dec 24, 2015 16:35:15 GMT -5
It's been quite some time since I've put the scope on the bushytails. Twas a lil quite in the woods this morning. I saw 2 and popped em both. Sporting the Ruger Takedown, my game was on today. Headshot both of them. The 1st was ranged at 42 yards and the 2nd at 57 yards! Score 2 for Team #2!
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 24, 2015 20:02:36 GMT -5
It's been quite some time since I've put the scope on the bushytails. Twas a lil quite in the woods this morning. I saw 2 and popped em both. Sporting the Ruger Takedown, my game was on today. Headshot both of them. The 1st was ranged at 42 yards and the 2nd at 57 yards! Score 2 for Team #2! they look like french squirrels!
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Dec 25, 2015 13:20:34 GMT -5
Decided to go out for some Christmas squirreling today. Jumped a one antlered buck behind the house in the pines then heard a barking squirrel. I get where I can see it, take aim, and it leaves. Really dude. So I go back to the other woods and sit down in the corner I hunt in winter. Usually with snow. I am there about 30 minutes when an ole girl shows up on a limb just sitting next to the trunk of the tree. I take aim, shoot, and down she falls. Flops a bit and starts moving off some. Not too worried, but I get over there. She starts up a tree and I try to get another shot and she gets up and in a hole. WTF. My dad told me stories as a kid that if you hit a squirrel like this and it gets in a hole to just leave and come back like an hour or so later and a lot of times they will come out of the hole before they finally die. I have played witness to this happening once as a kid. So I leave, walk to another spot where they like to cut out in a picked bean field and just see a doe. I work my way back looking on the ground over in the direction of the hole tree and don't see a thing. So I sit down in the same spot I was in and look the tree over. Up higher is a squirrel. All I have is a head shot. I take aim, and you know you have made a good shot when right after you shoot you see the eye bulge out. Down she fell. Ear shot. Turns out she was the one I shot before. In the ribs. I am puzzled at how a squirrel shot like this was able to get up a tree and in a hole on me. Well after some evidence gathering, I found out how. She would have survived this shot I believe. Just shows me how easily a perfect shot can be a bad shot. Add one more to team 1
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Dec 25, 2015 13:25:22 GMT -5
IMO, I would take all grays and trade anyone for the fox. Grays clean easier, cook easier, and taste easier, I mean better, lol. Only issue with grays are they are way too skittish, where fox are lazy! The next gray I get will have to get fried and not go into the dumpling pot. Can't say I have ate a gray fried before. Young fox squirrels clean pretty easy. Some older ones can be close to impossible. I think the skittish part depends on the squirrel and the pressure. I've had several fox squirrels that never ever play fair. Nothing can be as skittish as a red, but in certain situations I have found them too curious for their own good. And really scare proof when cutting pine cones or maple seeds.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 26, 2015 16:31:38 GMT -5
IMO, I would take all grays and trade anyone for the fox. Grays clean easier, cook easier, and taste easier, I mean better, lol. Only issue with grays are they are way too skittish, where fox are lazy! The next gray I get will have to get fried and not go into the dumpling pot. Can't say I have ate a gray fried before. Young fox squirrels clean pretty easy. Some older ones can be close to impossible. I think the skittish part depends on the squirrel and the pressure. I've had several fox squirrels that never ever play fair. Nothing can be as skittish as a red, but in certain situations I have found them too curious for their own good. And really scare proof when cutting pine cones or maple seeds. I think grays have ADHD ,almost as bad as pine squirrels or chipmunks. The fox squirrels not so much.
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Post by drs on Dec 27, 2015 5:18:26 GMT -5
The next gray I get will have to get fried and not go into the dumpling pot. Can't say I have ate a gray fried before. Young fox squirrels clean pretty easy. Some older ones can be close to impossible. I think the skittish part depends on the squirrel and the pressure. I've had several fox squirrels that never ever play fair. Nothing can be as skittish as a red, but in certain situations I have found them too curious for their own good. And really scare proof when cutting pine cones or maple seeds. I think grays have ADHD ,almost as bad as pine squirrels or chipmunks. The fox squirrels not so much.
Not only A.D.H.D. but Grays have the ability to disappear from an area, without notice!!
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 1, 2016 10:54:03 GMT -5
I'm sorry that I haven't killed any squirrels I've got one specific squirrel I'm after its a fox squirrel and it has gotten the better of me everytime I go after it. I've seen it in the yard a couple time and could've got it but I want to get it on my terms and its turf so I'll keep chasing it around the pasture until season ends or my shooting finally ends the battle.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jan 1, 2016 12:44:38 GMT -5
I'm sorry that I haven't killed any squirrels I've got one specific squirrel I'm after its a fox squirrel and it has gotten the better of me everytime I go after it. I've seen it in the yard a couple time and could've got it but I want to get it on my terms and its turf so I'll keep chasing it around the pasture until season ends or my shooting finally ends the battle. Just go out there and act like a "nut" like I do.
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Jan 5, 2016 15:07:10 GMT -5
Happy New Year!!! Add one to team one.
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Post by trapperdave on Jan 5, 2016 15:42:46 GMT -5
I'm about to get back after them
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Post by bullseye69 on Jan 5, 2016 22:51:17 GMT -5
I'm about to get back after them What red dot you got on top. I love my buckmarks!
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 5, 2016 23:35:00 GMT -5
I'm sorry that I haven't killed any squirrels I've got one specific squirrel I'm after its a fox squirrel and it has gotten the better of me everytime I go after it. I've seen it in the yard a couple time and could've got it but I want to get it on my terms and its turf so I'll keep chasing it around the pasture until season ends or my shooting finally ends the battle. Just go out there and act like a "nut" like I do. he likes the fruit that's rotting on the ground under my apple and pear trees I figure they are fermented enough he is probably a drunk
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