Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game 2023 Squirrel Season

The season opened today in Alabama and I'm out looking but haven't seen any yet. But it's the beginning of the best time of the year, out in the woods searching for those little arboreal varmints! Everyone post pictures from your hunts if you will.

Our season opened today in WV. Saw 3 but didn't get any. Like it better when it starts cooling down.

I agree, some cooler weather would be nice, too many skeeters in my neck of the woods right now.....Hb

I managed to nail two this afternoon using my Weihrauch HW100S pcp with 18 grain JSB pellets, both head shots.

Ours opened last Saturday but not much action. Hickory nuts aren't quite ready where I hunt.

We are hoping for a good hunt next weekend

Ours opened on 9/2/23 but it's been obscenely hot and humid and I just can't go when its like that. Maybe when it starts to cool a bit and the humidity breaks. Usually in October.

Also, I haven't seen any warbles on the squirrels around my house yet, or any bot flies this summer at all. This time last year it seemed all the squirrels had at least one visible warble.

I would hate to have to wait until fall to kill squirrels.

I really like how we can hunt them in late May when those young are getting out on their own.

For those of you that haven't eaten a 6 week old squirrel you don't know what you're missing

Yup. Too damn hot. Going out Thursday to scout out a spot for the Early Geezer Bear Season this weekend. Ain’t planning to shoot any rodents though.

Weather hasn't been terrible here in Alabama, warm but bearable compared to a couple of weeks ago. I made two more redheads this afternoon with the HW100S; one did have a botfly warble on it. One male and one female.

I enjoyed some cooler weather this morning and shot this gray.



Ruger 77/22lr
GM fluted barrel
Silencerco Sparrow
Eley HP Subsonic ammo

Heading out tomorrow morning for the first time this year. It's pretty much still summer here and the leaves are still deep green and the trees are full. The pecan trees around here are full of nuts, so I'm hoping the hickories are, too. It's supposed to be a bit cooler tomorrow, and cloudy. I'm taking my new .410.

Not a fan of using shotguns on squirrels...but I could be persuaded with that one!

I love shotguns for squirrels. High velocity #4 simply knocks the life out of them and passes right through.

But it's very cloudy this morning, misting rain, and everything is soaking wet. So I am taking my Winchester SX4 waterfowl 20 gauge instead of the above .410. Oh, and a poncho.

Only got two today, but saw a lot more. Just moving fast on the forest floor. Or just glimpses in the trees. The foliage is full and the understory is thick making seeing into the tops of the hickories hard. But the hickories are dropping nuts. Lots of them. Also saw a couple deer and three turkeys. Temp was about 75 and the humidity was around 100%. It was like a cool sauna. Not entirely pleasant.




And the mushrooms. The forest floor looks like it has been covered in litter., The mushroom are everywhere. I literally thought someone put a top from a 5 gallon bucket in the woods when I first saw this.

That's a big piece of fungus!

Drove all the way to a WMA to go squirrel hunting this afternoon and didn't see a one. Got back home to my own property and spotted this rabbit and nailed it with the HW100S PCP.

I'm saving my home squirrels, rabbits and deer for societal breakdown. My wife thinks I like them. Nope. Feeding them is just a hedge against future need for protein.

Got one this morning.

How you folks cooking these squirrels ?? I’ve only had them coated in Flour and fried.