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Shot this black fox squirrel yesterday. He's totally black except for a little white on the nose. He's not as big as the "panda squirrel" I killed last season (in the 2nd photo)but this is my first all black one so he'll go on the wall next to the others. I killed him within a stone's throw of the tree that produced the other one last year. I've seen a few other black squirrels in the past but never while I was actually squirrel hunting.
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Veddy cool.... I kept a pic of that Panda squirrel, I thought he was so unique... Ingwe
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SC, congrats on a cool trophy and a very nice 24D. Looks like a 20 guage, curious if it's a 22 mag or a 22 LR. The panda looks a lot like a fox squirrel I see in southern VA. Never saw any that were black with a white nose. Is it possible that the black is a color variant of a gray or is it also a fox. I ask, because we have black gray squirrels in northern PA, but they are all black. Our fox squirrels are have more reddish and yellowish tones with a lot of gray. Bfly
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Awesome squirrels! Makes me want to get out in the squirrel woods!!
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here are some fox squirrels i got with a friend several years back. For some reason this farm has lots of big, multi-colored squirrels. We don't shoot many of them, just on a special occasion
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SC, congrats on a cool trophy and a very nice 24D. Looks like a 20 guage, curious if it's a 22 mag or a 22 LR. The panda looks a lot like a fox squirrel I see in southern VA. Never saw any that were black with a white nose. Is it possible that the black is a color variant of a gray or is it also a fox. It's a .22 Mag. The black one is/was a fox squirrel, just not quite full grown.
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very nice SC squirrel. what part of the state?
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very nice SC squirrel. what part of the state? Lee County, between Camden & Bishopville.
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For some reason, Council Bluffs, IA, is home to a lot of black fox squirrels, but just across the Missouri River in Omaha, NE, they aren't nearly as common. 'Saw a white squirrel on the Mall in Washington, DC, during our family trip in 10/09.
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'Saw a white squirrel on the Mall in Washington, DC, during our family trip in 10/09.
Jeff My daughter went on her 8th grade class trip to D.C. last spring and reported that she saw an albino squirrel on the Main Mall! I bet it was the same one! ...small world. Dan
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That is cool I can not say that I have seen a "panda" squirrel
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I saw a Panda type squirrel 2 years ago in northern Michigan, he was a fox squirrel but was black where he should have been orange, saw him bowhunting a few times I looked for him with the 22 a few times but never could find him!
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Heres another pic of that panda squirrel he posted last year. Told ya I thought it was so cool I kept it!!
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Cool tree rats. We have fox squirrels around here and this year there have been a bunch of black and grey ones running around. after deer season ends on new years day, its time to give the rats a hard time. And coyotes.
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Marysville, Kansas, located at the intersection of US 36 Hwy and US 77 Hwy, has long publicized itself as "The Black Squirrel City" because it has a large stable population of the little rascals.
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Fox Squirrels are all but gone in Florida. They have been on the endangered list for years, and you hardly ever see one.
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SCGunNut, Do you have any pictures of your squirrel mounts? These are so cool looking. I'm curious how they turned out.
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SC: I have one of those Panda squirrels on a piece of property I lease for deer hunting, I have seen him several times over the past couple of years while deer hunting. I have never seen him while carrying my .22 actually squirrel hunting. I also have a couple of the russet colored fox squirrels there as well.
I think the reason I don't see them when squirrel hunting is because they seem to be active later in the day than the grays.
I'm in upstate SC and fox squirrels are quite rare in this area. Send me a PM if you are interested in trying for the "tree rats" up here.
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>>Do you have any pictures of your squirrel mounts? These are so cool looking. I'm curious how they turned out.
Haven't got the black one back yet but will post a pic of him and his wall mates when I get him back. I've about given up on ever shooting another mountable deer but at least I'll have a wall full of squirrels!
>>I think the reason I don't see them when squirrel hunting is because they seem to be active later in the day than the grays.
I think that's right because I shot the black one and the "panda" one at about 3:00 in the afternoon between deer hunts.
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