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I love to hunt them and as a kid I mailed my squirrel tails to Mepps also! One time I had a squirrel messing with me while bow hunting, about the third time I thought he came back, and was shocked to see a big 10pt. at 10yrds I was so shook I missed him by a foot!

Pat,

That picture of you on the bike would scare away all the squirrels and the squirrel hunters who I know.


Pretty clever of you even though most of us would lose our latest breakfast, lunch and supper if we saw you.

Hope all is well with you!

Steve

...and you as well Steve! I've really let myself go.

I love to squirrel hunt. The season opens in Tennessee on August 27 this year. I plan to be in the woods.

I love it but not a lot of hardwood forests around here.




Dave

first squirrel ever kilt was curled up in the top of a 100' tall yellow poplar. he was enjoying the last of the january sun when gramp's single shot stevens spoke.

it was a good day in the woods. still remember it. i did almost all my later killing with a rem. mdl 572 fieldmaster.

I thought you'd lost some weight. heheh and maybe gotten some hair implants.

The best time to hunt them in the South is during deer season. After about mid to late December, they start to rut and spend most of the rest of sq. season inside the trees. After they've bred, a sq. might not touch the ground but twice a day until March.

It's been a few years, but I have gone squirrel hunting since I was about 12 years old.. The area I grew up was rife with oak trees and a slow pace (read: snail's) through the woods with my Rem 572 pump 22 would usually result in a half-dozen Fox squirrels in an easy afternoon.. Slow-cooker with veggies and dumplings on top made for a very good and hearty meal..

I think the last time I went out was in 2010 with my son.. I miss it. Have to get goin' again..

Lots of good memories of squirrel hunting. The hickory trees in my front yard are just now being raided. Went out a few minutes ago and watched a couple of grays tearing 'em up. Season doesn't open for few weeks - them critters don't know they are living on borrowed time. My Marlin 39A is the bill collector.

Count me in. It is also a GREAT way to scout on public land. I don't bowhunt so I take to the woods with my LC Smith SxS in search of the little bastages (and rabbits) until rifle season opens...so Oct 2nd until late November. I'll pick it back up again when rifle season closes which is early February. And squirrel / rabbit season closes the end of February here.

Love it.

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But a few years ago an 'Invasive species' moved into town, which means no closed season, no bag limit. So at least I get some fried squirrel once in a while

I thought he looked pretty good......fer a retired Texan.

I had forgotten about selling squirrel tails to the Mepps company until I read this thread. I did that too as a kid and it was a big deal when I got my check from Mepps in the mail.

Back then I hunted with an old Savage M24 .22/.410 with .22 Longs and paper hulled Mohawk #6 shot, Best squirrel gun a kid ever had. I still take that old gun out a time or two every season.

Most often these days I squirrel hunt with a Marlin 39A with a scope and it's pure death on gray squirrels.

We used to have a lot of Fox squirrels but now it's just gray's. Don't know where all the fox squirrels went.

Squirrel season been open for several months here. Been way too how to be out in the woods. Starting to cool off some. They are starting to hit some of the early acorns. I like to wait until the 3rd weed of sep when it's cooler and they are hitting the hickory nuts.

Mepps?

For me, dove season, which opens the first Sat. in Sept, is just a teaser for the real hunting season to open. First Sat. in Oct. squirrel season opens, and it is on (as the kids use to say).

Squirrel and deer hunting are my favorites.

That made me snort coffee out of my nose.

Do y'all eat the brains, Randy? One of my friends' Mother cooked the brains when we brought squirrels in to her.