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Post by jdaily on Sept 17, 2023 14:15:48 GMT -5
Been hunting the same property for over 45 years in Gibson County. Been out 3 times this year with zero luck. They're not cutting on walnuts. Actually have seen far more deer while hunting than squirrels. Anyone else having the same luck?
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Post by BigJLocke on Sept 17, 2023 15:12:31 GMT -5
My son and I have been out a few times now and only seen 1. It’s just too hard to spot them right now I suppose. I can still hear them carrying on, but haven’t seen them moving as much as they usually do (in my opinion anyway)
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Post by titanium700 on Sept 17, 2023 15:33:26 GMT -5
I hunted last night.
I’ve noticed and it may be me but they were not in my hickory’s they were in the oaks and waaay up high.
Since it’s so thick I’ve only seen 2 but they did not stay still enough for me to get a clean shot.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Sept 17, 2023 17:42:09 GMT -5
And I’m sitting here on my back deck watching four of them feed up in trees, but I just don’t want to mess with cleaning and eating them.
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Post by titanium700 on Sept 17, 2023 19:13:51 GMT -5
Haha. That went through my mind in the past too.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 17, 2023 19:56:47 GMT -5
And I’m sitting here on my back deck watching four of them feed up in trees, but I just don’t want to mess with cleaning and eating them. Skin them right away when still warm, and it goes way easier. |
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Post by omegahunter on Sept 18, 2023 7:28:03 GMT -5
I have seen far fewer squirrels this year than before at my public spots at Glendale. But boy were they plentiful up where we deer hunt. I saw 5 more squirrels besides the 5 I got.
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Post by BigJLocke on Sept 18, 2023 13:23:06 GMT -5
Went out and moved some cameras and brought my squirrel gun. I probably covered 3 or 4 miles and only ever saw 1! My sling broke (just got it, first trip out) while on my shoulder and it hit the ground suppressor first. Ugh.
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Post by michaelc on Oct 23, 2023 19:24:17 GMT -5
Hoosier National Forest, because we can't even put a dent them tree rats. My wife's uncle and I can get our daily limit in no longer than 1 hour of being in the woods.
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Post by ms660 on Oct 23, 2023 22:28:35 GMT -5
We camped at HNF this past weekend and I lost count of the number of squirrels I saw just sitting at our campsite. All gray squirrels.
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Post by michaelc on Oct 24, 2023 8:16:56 GMT -5
We camped at HNF this past weekend and I lost count of the number of squirrels I saw just sitting at our campsite. All gray squirrels. Yeah it's very rare to see a fox squirrel anymore or it is where we hunt at anyhow |
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 24, 2023 9:43:17 GMT -5
We camped at HNF this past weekend and I lost count of the number of squirrels I saw just sitting at our campsite. All gray squirrels. Yeah it's very rare to see a fox squirrel anymore or it is where we hunt at anyhow I don’t hunt the tree rats but my backyard count is all fox squirrels. I’ve never seen a gray here |
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Post by omegahunter on Oct 24, 2023 12:45:03 GMT -5
Yeah it's very rare to see a fox squirrel anymore or it is where we hunt at anyhow I don’t hunt the tree rats but my backyard count is all fox squirrels. I’ve never seen a gray here Suburban/urban areas and really small woodlots are the last bastion of the fox squirrel. Most all the woods I've been in over the last 40 years have been almost totally taken over by grays. Used to shoot maybe 10% grays and now it's 10% or less fox squirrels. Seems the smaller the woods, the better the chance of seeing a fox squirrel. |
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Post by BigJLocke on Oct 24, 2023 14:17:12 GMT -5
The little wood lot I’m deer hunting this year is absolutely over run by Fox squirrels the size of house cats (small house cats haha) I can’t wait to knock down a couple does so I can start knocking them out of the trees. They were clipping walnuts off that collapsed my blind the other day haha
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