Rawhyde
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I am. I just cleaned and oiled my trusty shotgun and my .22 rifle. Let's go!
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Your get up looks classier than mine. I have a a couple Ruger 10/22s, a single shot bolt action Winchester that my Great Aunt gave me and a tuned up Crosman 1377 that I use.
If it's not raining tomorrow afternoon I'll grab pics of them. I've taken 5 squirrels so far this year with the Crosman (have taken them with one shot out to 20 yards). Haven't actually left the town limits yet so that I can use the .22s
Come October I'll be taking my pastor and his youngest son out squirrel hunting (I really don't like seeing warbles, they gross me out).
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If it's not raining tomorrow afternoon I'll grab pics of them. I've taken 5 squirrels so far this year with the Crosman (have taken them with one shot out to 20 yards). Haven't actually left the town limits yet so that I can use the .22s
Come October I'll be taking my pastor and his youngest son out squirrel hunting (I really don't like seeing warbles, they gross me out).
Tapatalk ate my spelling and grammar.
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A few years ago, I posted about a Red Squirrel invasion on our rancho. The little communist block monsters did hundreds of dollars worth of damage to some of our potting sheds. They chewed holes through the roof, walls and floors and made filthy leaf nests that were miserable to clean up. I managed to reduce their numbers without the use of poision, because Mrs. Flatfoot watches the Kestrel's, Merlin's, Falcon's, Hawk's and Eagle's that live and hunt here about and we don't want them harmed by coincidence.
Well this spring, it started all over again. Another population explosion of those little wacky wired up red monsters. I don't know if the drought we experienced this year had something to do with it, but the pine trees have produced and dropped more cones (the red devils love to eat them) than I can remember in my entire lifetime.
Well, the last straw came when we found a 6 inch diameter hole in one of the sheds we had repaired, three new leaf nests and some lattice skirting on one of the back porches chewed up alongside a pile of pine cones that looked like they had been in a shredder. So far, two 25 rd. boxes of Remington 20ga. #8 shot, has yielded excellent sport, entertainment, revenge and overall good results.
The last one I blasted to hades, tormented us for about a week, I named him "Chairman Mao". They bark and chatter at you and are as animated as a critter with a live wire up it's hind end. It was a surly adversary to be sure. I sent him to meet his cousin "Lennin" this morning and am pleased to report he bounced about 4 times off the branches of a 70 foot high pine before it hit ground. I really liked that, live action baby! The Turtleman ain't got nothin' on me! They ain't easy to hit for being small, fast and stealthy. I played hide and seek with this one for a week, but I'm a patient ole' coot.
Went into the ammo cabinet this morning to lay out another box of shells, since there were only 4 or 5 rounds left in the last box. All that's left were slugs and 3 inch mags......guess I'll be buying a case this week sometime. Aside from game birds, squirrel pests accounted for the lionshare of the last case. One shot...one kill...do the math. Grouse hunting time....and that's serious eatin' game, not pest control. The gray squirrels here are also fat this year and are good eating if you like that sort of game, but they aren't as destructive as the red devils. They are fun to take with a .22 pistol and we go almost every season for them. Have fun and enjoy the season!
BTW To The OP;
Very, very nice looking shotgun and rifle in your post. Makes me feel envious. I take my tree rats with a Remington 870 LW Ducks Unlimited Gold Engraved Edition 20ga. Imp. Cyl. with ribbed barrel. It is my favorite small game getter. A friend said it was too pretty to shoot when I bought at a DU banquet.....I told him to get lost. He said "but Lefty...it even has a gold plated trigger", damn man THAT is funny!
Cheers;
Lefty
Well this spring, it started all over again. Another population explosion of those little wacky wired up red monsters. I don't know if the drought we experienced this year had something to do with it, but the pine trees have produced and dropped more cones (the red devils love to eat them) than I can remember in my entire lifetime.
Well, the last straw came when we found a 6 inch diameter hole in one of the sheds we had repaired, three new leaf nests and some lattice skirting on one of the back porches chewed up alongside a pile of pine cones that looked like they had been in a shredder. So far, two 25 rd. boxes of Remington 20ga. #8 shot, has yielded excellent sport, entertainment, revenge and overall good results.
The last one I blasted to hades, tormented us for about a week, I named him "Chairman Mao". They bark and chatter at you and are as animated as a critter with a live wire up it's hind end. It was a surly adversary to be sure. I sent him to meet his cousin "Lennin" this morning and am pleased to report he bounced about 4 times off the branches of a 70 foot high pine before it hit ground. I really liked that, live action baby! The Turtleman ain't got nothin' on me! They ain't easy to hit for being small, fast and stealthy. I played hide and seek with this one for a week, but I'm a patient ole' coot.
Went into the ammo cabinet this morning to lay out another box of shells, since there were only 4 or 5 rounds left in the last box. All that's left were slugs and 3 inch mags......guess I'll be buying a case this week sometime. Aside from game birds, squirrel pests accounted for the lionshare of the last case. One shot...one kill...do the math. Grouse hunting time....and that's serious eatin' game, not pest control. The gray squirrels here are also fat this year and are good eating if you like that sort of game, but they aren't as destructive as the red devils. They are fun to take with a .22 pistol and we go almost every season for them. Have fun and enjoy the season!
BTW To The OP;
Very, very nice looking shotgun and rifle in your post. Makes me feel envious. I take my tree rats with a Remington 870 LW Ducks Unlimited Gold Engraved Edition 20ga. Imp. Cyl. with ribbed barrel. It is my favorite small game getter. A friend said it was too pretty to shoot when I bought at a DU banquet.....I told him to get lost. He said "but Lefty...it even has a gold plated trigger", damn man THAT is funny!
Cheers;
Lefty
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Oldiron
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Since the wife will not cook wild game for me I don't go treerat hunting much anymore. About once every couple of years the boys and I will drag out the BL22s load them up with shorts and go on an extermination hunt. Makes the dogs happy so we just leave the squirrels where they land.
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charlie sherrill
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After skinning them out I cut them in half. I then beat an egg, and beat a cup of milk with the egg. Splash the carcass around in that, roll it in flour, and fry it like you would a chicken. After frying set them aside on some paper towels to soak up the grease. Make your favorite mushroom gravy and dump gravy and fried squirrels into a crock pot. Simmer for four hours on low and serve over rice with a side of your favorite veggies and some cat head biscuits. A squirrel problem around here is not enough of them.
This is what I use for squirrel hunting. Great rifle and more accurate than I can shoot it......but I do manage get my limit of bushytails.
I like to make a few quarts of "brunswick stew" every winter with squirrel and rabbit as the main ingredients.
(pic is one off GunBroker from when I bought this rig a few years ago)
Don
Don
I like to make a few quarts of "brunswick stew" every winter with squirrel and rabbit as the main ingredients.
(pic is one off GunBroker from when I bought this rig a few years ago)
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Today i went to evaluate a tree i will be removing for a customer tommorow. While standing in front of the tree a black squirrel came down the tree and looked at me and my boss on a branch about eye level. I could have sworn he was onto his upcoming eviction. First black squirrel i have seen in PA in many years.
mstuhr
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Howdy Rawhyde,
We have similar taste in squirrel rifles. Mine wears a Burris compact 4X.
You do keep a little better shotgun around than I do too.
My only shotgun is an old 1400 with a Poly Choke. It seldom gets out except for dove and rabbits.
Nice guns!
Thanks
Mike
Howdy Rawhyde,
We have similar taste in squirrel rifles. Mine wears a Burris compact 4X.
You do keep a little better shotgun around than I do too.
My only shotgun is an old 1400 with a Poly Choke. It seldom gets out except for dove and rabbits.
Nice guns!
Thanks
Mike
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Once upon a time I would agree with you but even though I live in a rural area it has growed up too much to be shooting a rifle in the air. The only way to safely use a rifle is always wait until the squirrel is on the face of a big tree. I use my Beretta O/U skeet gun that has screw in chokes and Briley small gauge tubes. I put a .410 or 28 ga. skeet choked tube in the bottom barrel for close in shots and I put a full choke in the top 12 ga. barrel for longer shots. Larry
Howdy Rawhyde,
We have similar taste in squirrel rifles. Mine wears a Burris compact 4X.
You do keep a little better shotgun around than I do.
My only shotgun is an old 1400 with a Poly Choke. It seldom gets out except for dove and rabbits.
Nice guns!
Thanks
Mike
Nice! I've had a soft spot in my heart for Browning takedowns since I was a small child. I remember writing off to Browning for a catalog and looking through it with my daddy. We'd read that thing for hours together. I still have that 1972 catalog (I was 6 at the time).
I got that gun (ironically a 1972 model) 4 or 5 years ago. I hope to get a Grade III someday and complete the set. I still have the Grade I my daddy bought new back in '68.
fiasconva
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I used to love hunting squirrel hunting. Just sitting down in a nice quiet spot and waiting for them was great. I've had deer walk within 10 feet of me and never have a clue I was there. But since no one will eat them but me I can't see shooting them any more.
That's about the opposite of what I do but sounds about the same result. I stick them in the crockpot with a little butter, salt and pepper first so that when the time comes the bones pull out easily.
Then I either use them for brusnwick stew, chili (can slip it in to either of those and SWMBO doesn't know it's in there) or bread it and fry it and make some gravy.
Few things are as tasty as fried squirrel and squirrel gravy.
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When I purposely set out to hunt Squirrels I'll take my CZ 453 American with a 6X Burris compact scope. Lightweight, accurate and smooth.
When I am in the Field Pheasant Hunting I'll usually carry my M63 .22LR for the occasional Squirrel we run across. It's a little more challenging than just letting loose with 12 gauge Pheasant loads and it adds a different aspect to the Pheasant Hunt.
Chief38
When I am in the Field Pheasant Hunting I'll usually carry my M63 .22LR for the occasional Squirrel we run across. It's a little more challenging than just letting loose with 12 gauge Pheasant loads and it adds a different aspect to the Pheasant Hunt.
Chief38
A couple of squirrel getters:
Had to recut the rifling and enlarge the bore a bit, but it shoots a patched OO buck pellet well. (Also a coyote getter.)
Same revolver shown in another thread, but it took my first fox squirrel years ago. Also gets greys.
Had to recut the rifling and enlarge the bore a bit, but it shoots a patched OO buck pellet well. (Also a coyote getter.)
Same revolver shown in another thread, but it took my first fox squirrel years ago. Also gets greys.
Same revolver shown in another thread, but it took my first fox squirrel years ago. Also gets greys.
Found old film photos from a wretched little disposable camera purchased just for the occasion of getting fox squirrel #1.
These are photos of the photos, so they look a bit "off":
Preserved the hide with the fur on; it still looks OK, but moths will likely de-fur it one day. Big squirrel!
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Ok, here's my tuned up Crosman 1377 that I call the squirrel squisher.
I polished the trigger/hammer/sear and added a spent .22lr shell under the end of the sear to make it smoother.
Added a metal breech to hold the red dot and then added a stainless safety, bolt handle, and extended bolt so that the pellet skirt fully engages the rifling when the bolt is closed to give me a bit more pressure but mostly to give more consistent accuracy.
I polished up the crown because it was a little rough. Then I filed the piston a little bit so that it gets more pressure per stroke.
I've dropped 6 squirrels and three rabbits with one shot each this year. Only animal that the pellet didn't exit was the largest rabbit that weighed almost 4lbs dressed (quarters and loins). I put the dot on its eye at about 15 yards and the pellet went right behind the eye and it flopped over dead.
As long as the squirrel is within 25-30 yards I'm set and rabbits out to 20 or so with headshots (which is all I try for on the animals anyway. Don't want to ruin meat).
Tapatalk ate my spelling and grammar.
I polished the trigger/hammer/sear and added a spent .22lr shell under the end of the sear to make it smoother.
Added a metal breech to hold the red dot and then added a stainless safety, bolt handle, and extended bolt so that the pellet skirt fully engages the rifling when the bolt is closed to give me a bit more pressure but mostly to give more consistent accuracy.
I polished up the crown because it was a little rough. Then I filed the piston a little bit so that it gets more pressure per stroke.
I've dropped 6 squirrels and three rabbits with one shot each this year. Only animal that the pellet didn't exit was the largest rabbit that weighed almost 4lbs dressed (quarters and loins). I put the dot on its eye at about 15 yards and the pellet went right behind the eye and it flopped over dead.
As long as the squirrel is within 25-30 yards I'm set and rabbits out to 20 or so with headshots (which is all I try for on the animals anyway. Don't want to ruin meat).
Tapatalk ate my spelling and grammar.
sq hunter
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squirrel dogs the only way to go. dogs are primed & ready. shotguns are the norm. try shooting a timbering squirrel w/ 22 rifle good luck. 410 double to be sporting . love to hunt squacks.
