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on a stick, ya baby

I shoot the vermin tree rats off my bird feeder, I guess you can say I hunt them.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Squirrel hunting is my passion in Sept

2 weeks to go here. Going with a single shot Remington 514 from my boyhood this year.

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

I was just thinking today that my next range trip should include checking the sights on the 22. Squirrel season opens in mid Oct.

Dale

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.

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...

You gotta admire a guy that throws flying ashtrays at tree rats out of a 45-70.

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.

David, that's how they do my Roma tomatoes.

I give them no quarter. F with my romas.. you're done.

Sam, I have a Ruger 10/22 stainless with a full mannlicher stock as well. It was my fathers.....

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

Reading through the thread, I saw where guys are looking for some good recipes. Here is a great one, and a good way to use up old squirrels.


http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/wild-chef/2012/02/new-england-style-cream-based-squirrel-chowder


Also some additional food pics.......





Traditional fried.





with gravy....





squirrel pot pie.





with cornbread.....


maddog

Mike...it may be time to re-post your Limb Chicken Chowder.

Absolutely the best soup of any kind Ive ever eaten.