green bay squirrel.

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LUNCH!





After Lunch.



f.t.

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I remember a rifle match I went to back when I was a teenager. It was a smallbore rifle match and we were getting ready to shoot the 100 yard prone portion of the match. I was shooting a target rifle with a 30 power scope. I was in position and set up on target when I noticed a squirrel sitting between targets. He was just sitting there unaware of what was going on. I had my crosshairs on his little beady eye watching him while all the other shooters were preparing. He left the spot just as the command was given to commence firing. With 50 firing positions in use, you can imagine all those guns going off at once. I thought maybe the squirrel didn't stand a chance but, when we walked down to score targets, I didn't see him anywhere. I like to think that he escaped OK.

He's a cutie.

Would look even more cute cut up and slow fried in corn starch and cayenne pepper, with a side of mashed potatoes!!

I used to think squirrels were cute until they invaded my attic. I'd go up there and they wouldn't even run. They'd just stare at me as if to say, "We're here to stay, sucker!". It cost me a pile to have a specialist get rid of them without leaving any dead ones inside to smell up the house. Now I regard squirrels as nothing more than furry rats. Fortunately, in recent years we've had a group of foxes move into the neighborhood. They do a great job of holding down the squirrel population.

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What, me worry?

Squirrels----I got one neighbor that feeds them and another neighbor that shoots them.

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James
On the Llano Estacado

Food around the corner, fresh food around the corner tree rats.

Thought my suppressor was working better than that.....

Sounds like a symbiotic relationship to me.

In the Ohio blizzard of '78 people started feeding the squirrels in our apartment complex, and fed them even more in '79. So by the fall of '79 I had tree rats breaking into every building in the complex. So I bought some live traps and would take care of them with a trash can of water inside our garage. It seemed like a waste, so my best friend and I would "stock" the woods on his uncle's farm. Come the fall of '80, I ask when we could hunt/harvest our squirrels. Turns out I had "welfare squirrels", when released in the wild, they didn't want to climb trees and eat nuts, they ran down the road and sat on a farmer's front rail looking cute and begging corn. The farmer they looked so good, he shot them and had grilled and/or fried squirrel every night for a week. So much for stocking the woods with city tree rats!

Ivan

I call them tree rats; my GSD seems to think they are etable fury Frisbees.

No need for a specialist. Just get a decent dog in the attic and the squirrels will leave quick enough.

My Doxie can only *dream* about catching a squirrel!

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Got problems with squirrels.....ya gotta call in the experts!!

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Shot this little guy two months ago in Lake Wales, Florida at Bok Tower. My wife had tossed him a bit of bread. Is it just me or does it look like he's smiling?

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My old Wire-haired Dachshund always tried to catch one. Once, one fell out of a tree right in front of him and he looked so confused as to why they were falling out of the trees that the darn squirrel had time to recover. The chase then began and the squirrel won again.

My approximately eleven-year-old rat terrier rescue dog is slowing down a little. Even on a lead he's very nearly managed to catch of few of the little furry gangsters my neighbors insist on feeding, but he rarely tries anymore. A man's got to know his limitations.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Now that's the happiest looking squirrel I ever did see!

Would look a lot happier slow cooked in a crock pot of dumplings with a side of corn bread!!

My shepherd always tried to get them but they always seemed to be a step quicker...until one day at the park he got between a squirrel and the only close tree. It was a stare down for a moment with my dog looking at the squirrel with his best "make your best move" stare and the tree rat looking for better options. The rat faked left and broke right but my dog matched him without breaking eye contact and it was two quick chomps before the rat could get to the tree. He ran up the tree and stopped on the first branch, maybe 10 feet up. My dog looked at the squirrel and then at me with a sense of satisfaction that I didn't understand! I said, "You let him get away!" But my dog's easy attitude seemed to say, "You weren't watching close enough". A few seconds later my dog didn't even move when the rat fell from the tree dead...just watched his adversary plop to the ground.

I nodded my respect, tussled his ears with a "good boy" and couldn't help but notice a bit more bounce in his step for the rest of the walk.

We have two Pecan trees one in our yard and one in a neighboring yard and a Black Walnut tree in our side yard.

A aunt of mine asked me would I gather her some Pecans and bring em to her. I told her our squirrels where as big as small dogs and I wasn't about to fight em over their pecans or walnuts.

Our squirrels just sit back and laugh at us! Somebody asked one day if the neighborhood cats bothered them. I said heck no, look at the size of those monsters!

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We built a new house in the woods last year and we have turkeys, deer, ducks, and other animals visit us almost daily. My wife feeds the animals and has names for a few of them and I liked to sit on the back porch or at my study and watch the squirrels play and chase each other. Until one day our brand new patio furniture looked like it was clawed to pieces by a Saber Toothed Tiger!....So I order an RWS Diana .22 pellet rifle with a 4X Hawke Mildot scope and adjustable objective and sight it in on a squirrel about 55 yards away. I shoot and hear a thud but he runs away, I was so disappointed in my new high dollar pellet rifle until I walked out to where he was sitting. It looked like about a half a coffee cup of blood was spilled where he was at and there was blood all over the bushes and limbs.

My motto is live and let live unless my life is in immediate danger. I had squirrels in the attic once. Called an extrrminator. He came and took care of the problem without killing them.

Unless it has more than 4 legs. Then all bets are off!!!

The little shack that is my camp in deer season is on a small creek loaded with black walnuts. I manage to shoot a couple of batches every year. Most with my Marlin 39a, but a few have fell from my little 5" 63-4. Nothing better fried up with some gravy and mashed taters.

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twirl a squirrel.

Ah, the balance of nature...

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James Redfield
LM #497

We saw this guy camping in the Mt Lassen area, near Burney Falls. I believe it is a Chickaree? I love the tufted ears. They were fun to watch, very busy in the trees eating seeds from pine cones.

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After:

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Pack light and cinch tight.

That gal uses buck shot for squirrels?

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Dum vivo cano

Tannerite?

The only good ones at the hand of a Marlin25

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Wow! That looks so good! How is the flavor?

Also, I had no idea Wild Turkey had a habanero sauce... I'm gonna have to get me some of that!!

I was expectin' something more like this:


Offspring of Blutarsky.

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I didn't get a "before" pic.


Charlie

I have posted previously, in detail, my complete dislike of these vermin and how much I have come to enjoy "entertaining" them here on the rancho. You see, my guests did so much damage to our potting shed and garden sheds in one season that it wound up costing quite a bit of money to repair. They chewed holes in the walls, floors and roof. Their filthy leaf and pine cone littered nests accounted for a truly vile cleanup. Aside from reducing their numbers accordingly by the usual methods, by coincidence a number of predators apparently were attracted by the population explosion of red's. Several foxes, coyotes, a few different varieties of small hawks of some kind, seem to have nearly diminished the over population of these pests in my neck of the big pine woods. The past few years, you couldn't walk 20 yards without seeing red squirrels, this year very few. My previous view of predators has changed substantially and they have saved me the cost of ammunition by considerable extent.

Good riddance!

Cheers;
Lefty

Nothing with the S&W 617 this season, except as a coup de grace. Had to excavate the last one! (Bit over 100ards and only broke the spine.)

MUY BIEN!!!

I love "The Hunting of the Squirrel" as it were. I am going to have to hit the wood with my .22 before the ticks and "wolves" come back and latch on to the squirrels.

People laugh at me when I tell them, but dang it, squirrel is awful tasty if cooked right. You need at least two for a meal, by the way...

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