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I am ready, and have some just the right size picked out!!! Will be saturday morning before I get to start!
Redge, what is your weapon of choice for the little buggers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Redge
17 is my favorite now. 22 was my favorite for a long time until the 17 came out. 17 just shoots flatter. Heads shots only, unless you like chili! LOL
Probably be before me if this rain don't quit. Agree on the head shots but I use .22 still so no long shots for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redge
If I have a solid back stop I would use my .22 mag
Ya got big Sqwerls, George?
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by IkenI
One other note the mulberries, are about a week away from being ripe at my place. If you can time it right, can make for some fast action!
.22 savage target rifle.
Heavy rascal but cuts eyes
Time for breakfast!
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Redge, how do you cook your squirrel?
So where do you guys find .22 ammo? We got a guy that camps out at our walmart when they have .22 ammo to put out and he and his friend buy it up to resale. Walmart really needs to limit boxes over 300rds to one box per person till this shortage is over. It makes a man have bad thoughts when there are 4 people in line stating they're looking for .22 ammo and 4 1000rd boxes of ammo and the first guy buys 3 boxes and according to the cashier does it every time they get .22 ammo. OK rant over and back on topic. Nice looking breakfast Redge.
Thanks Dino! Dbrown fried squirrel, biscuts and gravy, strawberry jelly! Heart healthy of course, fried in bacon grease. LOL.
Supper for me. You did much better than me, Redge. I was rained out yesterday for the opener but did get out for a couple of hours this afternoon early. Saw five in that time but couldn't get the head shot but on two. One actually jumped the string and I got him in the neck. I hadn't shot the T-bolt since Winter but it worked. It's getting much more difficult as I get older since I can't hear them now. Luckily I can still see them and the scope works great. I'll only get out one or two more times in the Summer cause I don't like the Tiggers and Chicks. Even on a good day I rarely take my limit because I don't freeze them. My second wife doesn't like them so I go whenever I want some fried up. The two young fox squirrels were more than enough for me, tho'. My first wife and her mother liked them so I hunted more then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redge
Dave, add a cast iron skillet to Redges menu.
Dino, I quit looking at Wal-Mart. I've built up a stash from Academy, Dick's, BPS and moms & pops. BPS keeps what they have behind the counter - you have to ask for them. But, the stash is all odds and ends. My serious squirrel ammo is Eley Sub-sonic and I get it at Midway USA. Pricey but well worth it.
I still don't understand why there is still such a shortage of 22 ammo. But, its the same everywhere. I'm fortunate to have a son with a sourse and we are able to keep a couple of bricks in my safe. His daughters shoot up so much it's getting harder!
Remember when 223 was the same way? We reload it so wasn't so much of a problem. But, can't reload 22 so what's a guy to do?
No, lets go fishin!!!!
Pretty well stocked up on .22LR. What I'm short of is my fav round. When I DO hunt them I use my my old single HR .410 my dad bought me for my 6th birthday. It's a nostalgic thing I guess. But don't buy very many boxes because of the price
My squirrel trip was interesting. Got out there at 2 pm, it was 83 and humid. I found some nice big trees and sat down it the shade. I looked down at my pants and they were COVERED in ticks moving in for lunch. I got up and left. Now mind you, I know about Oklahoma, I had sprayed my cloths heavily in deet before I left the truck. I will have to go very early next time.
I agree, I hate the ticks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishers
I went out into the woods and came across this old man sittin on a log and he had 7 squirrels laid up beside him. He didn't have a gun! I asked him what he was doing and he said he was squirrel huntin. I asked "Where's your gun"? He said he didn't need a gun because he was so ugly, that all he had to do was sit quiet and wait for a squirrel to start running the tree tops, he would then clap his hands, the squirrel would look down at him and fall out of the tree dead. I cried BS on this and he told me to sit down, wait and watch. After about 5 minutes, a squirrel starting running the tree tops, he clapped his hands, the squirrel looks down, Bamm! Dang thing fell out of the tree dead! In amazment, I told him he must be the greatest squirrel hunter in the world! He said, "No, actually my wife is". Well, why don't you bring her?
"I couldn't do that. She buggers them up too bad"!
Yeah, he be a grinning dem.
Permethin. I have one set of hunting clothes reserved exclusively for early season squirrel hunting. They have been sprayed and they hang in the garage. I only wash them if they get pretty dirty and after washing they get another spray. Works pretty good. I also wear Muck snake boots. That's from growing up in LeFlore County.
Same as Floyd on the clothing treatment! It really does work, I always wear boots, lots of timber rattlers, diamond backs and copperheads in my neck of the woods.
I don't care who you are, that there is funny!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper
Allen, this post got me thinking. When I was about 8 my Dad took over my old H&R and told me it was time to use a .22 rifle. He always carried the .410 when we went so he could pop a quick shot at a gray running on the ground. Later, in Colorado when my son was young he would carry it when rabbit hunting (not many huntable squirrels there.) After he died I gave it to a nephew. Great little shotgun. I do have a sleek little Turkish side by side .410 that I have only used on doves and an occasional quail. A group of us used to open every dove season with a .410 only dove hunt. It was great fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiepappa
When I was young we ate many a squirrel that had been shot with #6's or #4's and I don't recall ever tearing one up too bad. I think my next time out I'm gonna leave the Browning at home and carry my little .410 - might even bring it to camp for an early morning hunt. There's lots of squirrel around there and lots of hunting area where you can use a shotgun. Thanks for stirring up some old memories.
Floyd
I hope with all the rain we don't drown the new offspring. I love to fry em remove em make gravy with the drippings throw em back in the gravy let simmer and throw it all over fried taters with onions. WSD
I've got a female mountain Feist that'd a pretty good squirrel dog. We ended up killing 433 last year
Did get out yesterday and got some more for breakfast. Love hunting when the woods are wet!!