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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. on a stick, ya baby
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I shoot the vermin tree rats off my bird feeder, I guess you can say I hunt them.
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The cutting thru tail, splitting hide a little ways on both sides and standing on tail and pulling squirrel up/ then pulling pair of pants is the best way to skin as stated earlier. When you get good you can skin with no hair on meat. You can also skin this way having someone hold by back legs. You can also roll in car or truck window and pull that way.
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Freaking squirrels!! Over 10 years we've yet to harvest a single apple, peach, grape, cherry, pear and various other garden items thanks to squirrels. I started my war on the bastids but it did no good. They simply replaced themselves as quick as I took them out. Then the women in the family campaigned against the kill so all was lost. Thinking the baby tree rat shot did me in. Over the years they've eaten the above ground sprinkler system, Christmas lights and the plastic flag holders. What sucks is they only take one bite from each piece of fruit. They know exactly what they're doing. F em!
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I've hunted them since old enough to follow my father thru the woods. My children hunt with me now. Problem is, they squirrels are so acorn crop dependent here that not every year is worth chasing them.
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Freaking squirrels!! Over 10 years we've yet to harvest a single apple, peach, grape, cherry, pear and various other garden items thanks to squirrels. I started my war on the bastids but it did no good. They simply replaced themselves as quick as I took them out. Then the women in the family campaigned against the kill so all was lost. Thinking the baby tree rat shot did me in. Over the years they've eaten the above ground sprinkler system, Christmas lights and the plastic flag holders. What sucks is they only take one bite from each piece of fruit. They know exactly what they're doing. F em! After the camp "birdfeeder incident" my wife has declared them the A-holes of the animal kingdom and condones me eliminating them. The fact she likes squirrel pot pie is a bonus.
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Is your real ID Big Mortie? Sorry, but I have no idea what that means. Bwahahaha...that handle is a blast from the past. He loved hunting "squill" with his Marlin .45-70. Pages and pages of illiterate drivel about how accurate his .45-70 was and how it was the best "squill" gun ever. Not sure who the troll or prankster was but it was a relatively short-lived handle...had a few good chuckles at him though.
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Squirrel hunting is my passion in Sept
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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2 weeks to go here. Going with a single shot Remington 514 from my boyhood this year.
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I shoot the vermin tree rats off my bird feeder, I guess you can say I hunt them. you need to eat more squirrel's thru the year. I love to watch them all year long and have about 2500 acres of timber around my little patch of ground
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I was just thinking today that my next range trip should include checking the sights on the 22. Squirrel season opens in mid Oct.
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I've been hunting squirrels for 40+ years in GA. This will be my first year hunting with a suppressed .22. I have a new Savage MKII compact with a suppressor and the CCI standards are grouping well inside minute squirrel noggin.
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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. nah, i pretty much grew up in the woods, with a .22 in one hand and a fishin pole in the other.... i'm still about half feral, but i can almost pass for civilized, until some asks the best way to skin something. Stick selection is pretty important, after you get 6 or 7 of them on there, stick wants to bend some...
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Is your real ID Big Mortie? Sorry, but I have no idea what that means. Bwahahaha...that handle is a blast from the past. He loved hunting "squill" with his Marlin .45-70. Pages and pages of illiterate drivel about how accurate his .45-70 was and how it was the best "squill" gun ever. Not sure who the troll or prankster was but it was a relatively short-lived handle...had a few good chuckles at him though. You gotta admire a guy that throws flying ashtrays at tree rats out of a 45-70.
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I learned something from the posting. Use the pickup window to clamp the tail. The grandson will think I am the smartest guy alive. And thanks.
There is no place like home. Western Oklahoma.
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Freaking squirrels!!
What sucks is they only take one bite from each piece of fruit.
F em!
David, that's how they do my Roma tomatoes. I give them no quarter. F with my romas.. you're done.
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Squirrel hunting is my favorite activity. I kill a bunch with a Ruger 10/22, Mannlicher stocked rifle. CCI Mini Mags and a 4X Scope. My "Old Reliable" squirrel rifle is a 1930s manufacture Remington bolt target rifle. With the same CCI Mini Mags, and a 3-9 Scope, it's an honest 75 yard killer. Newest one is a 1970 Marlin 39A Golden Mountie. 2-7X Leupold and CCI Mini Mags. It is becoming every busy tail's bete noire. Sam, I have a Ruger 10/22 stainless with a full mannlicher stock as well. It was my fathers.....
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Here's some pics of the last 4 seasons, and the different rimfires I use. My Marlin 39a with a scope on it. Since then, I took the scope off and put a receiver sight on the ole girl. I've owned that rifle since 1975. My H&R Sportster single shot.22 with a camo job done to it. I've used it a lot in the last 3-4 yrs. I did a DG hunt in Zimbabwe back in 2011 with a single shot rifle, so using a single shot for squirrel hunting was a natural progression. Got it in my head, a few yrs. ago that I wanted to use iron sights again[at 60 yrs.+]. So I bought a 10/22 and put a williams firesight peep on it. The pic above is the first limb chicken I killed with it, and a head shot to boot. Lastly, I bought another 10/22, modified it with a BX trigger and put a 3-9x rimfire scope on board, and thats what I'm using, primarily this season. maddog
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Mike...it may be time to re-post your Limb Chicken Chowder.
Absolutely the best soup of any kind Ive ever eaten.
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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