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Kay "Miss Kay" Robertson from the Duck Commander Robertson family claims to be a big fan of fried squirrel brains.

Idaho has no squirrel season. For natives, we only have reds and not in great enough numbers to hunt. We do have lots of imported fox squirrels which can be shot anytime without a limit, but they're mostly found in cities where we can't shoot. I get them in my orchard and shoot them whenever I can find them. They're hell on apricots and other fruit.

They'll play heck with your sweet corn too. Leave the cobs sticking out like a coat rack. Often, when a corn field abuts a woods, getting permission to hunt is easy.

I'm ready to go, lost of them in east Texas

friggen squirrels have raped my tomato plants this year. wish i could shoot them but that's a no no living in the county.

Get a slingshot.

And a bag of treats.



Dave

You need a hot wire strung three inches off the ground around your plants.

I use a Ruger 77 with a stainless Douglas barrel. Leupold 8x scope.

So how do you guys skin them? My grandmother was the best squirrel hunter I ever met, shoe showed me how she did it. Grab the tail and start cutting through the hide right at the tail/back junction. Feather the hide down the back a bit, then step on the tail, and pull up with the back legs. It will skin right to the front legs. I carry a knife, plastic bag and side cutters in a bag, and skin and clean in the woods when I get a few. Much easier when they are warm!

Oh, and my grandmother would par boil them for a while, then fry them in bacon grease.

I have just cut them into pieces, throw them in a crock pot with some cream of mushroom soup, and let me go for several hours. Meat falls off the bone.

I was taught to part the hair midway on the back by blowing on it, then making an incision through the skin big enough to put both forefingers in. Pulling my fingers apart strips the skin from head to tail. Just like skinning cottontails.

I have skinned them that way too, sometimes it comes off just like you explained, sometimes not so much. I've been thinking about the air compressor trick to make it even easier.

I sure enjoy it and look forward to hunting them this fall. I think a lot of folks that squirrel hunted are now bowhunting deer or at least when I'm squirrel hunting that's who I see.

Sure a relaxing way to spend a morning. I do have to admit often taking a paperback book along.

I would like to add that when I mentioned the compressed air trick I was thinking about bringing a bottle of air like for recharging paintball guns to keep in the truck and then use that. The air compressor would be a pain to bring along :-)

I do not hunt squirrels, but I do shoot squirrels when the opportunity presents itself.

After reading through this thread earlier I had to get the 39A out and make sure the scope (and me) was still on target.

The scope is fine but that rifle is so much fun I put 150 rounds through it before I made myself quit.

I'm a squirrel hunter primarily. Also see rabbits occasionally. Sometimes go to the field and watch for doves. Never could get interested in the big game hunting, nor could I have afforded to travel much to hunt anything outside of north Alabama.

I've hunted squirrels with a variety of firearms. What I have now is a Kimber Hunter 22, a .177 Beeman R1 air rifle, a .22 cal. PCP Evanix air rifle, and a 12 gauge SxS. I prefer the Kimber out of all of them, but do enjoy using all. Seems like every time I end up carrying something besides the Kimber all of the squirrels will be beyond range of the airguns and shotguns.

This, Started out with a 22 cal. Crossman 140 in the early 1960's, moved to a 22, then to a High Standard Victor in the 70's and 80's. Then to a 32 cal flintlock in the 90's. Then back to a 1960's Sheridan 5mm. Some of my favorite memories are sitting on a stump in the woods hunting squirrels and biscuits and gravy made from them. Some call it hunting, I call it living.

This, I skin them as soon as I pick them up

No offense, but I'd have taken you for a city slicker that had too much money...until I saw how you had those squirrels strung.

Sorry, but I have no idea what that means.