Don't know if you'd call this small game or a varmint.....damndest squirrel I ever saw

Can't see the Head well...Ringtail? What a beautiful piece of Wood on that Firearm!

Yep. Ringtail. That stock was Select African Walnut

It really is a one of a kind piece of Wood! How many blanks did you dig through to run across that one? Really is nice!

That stock is crazy cool, that critter is too.

Beautiful rifle, all you need now is a skull on the stock, a dead fish and blue tape on the end of the barrel...

and stuck in the water........

Fine wood, you eat the funny looking skwerl?

I'm working on a little something for the stock



If i can get the dead fish and blue tape I can start calling all of you all kinds of names!

Shoulda just shot it instead of beatin' it to death with that beautiful rifle!

So what the hell kind of lemur squirrel is that? You hunting at the zoo again?

Yep! at the Texas Petting Zoo!


You're the only one that noticed the resemblance to a Madagascar lemur....

ingwe, sagebrush limb chicken......just sayin'


Way cool rifle.


maddog

Mike: I LIKE it!

But may have to modify it to " Mesquite Limb Chicken"

Your pet leopard must be on a raw diet... Here's to you keeping it real.

Sounds like you may have bagged that somewhere other than Montucky. We have both Mesquite and Ringtails down here.

No pet leopard...its a cheetah....





the only cat I ever loved....

Whaaaat! For hunting hares...

Isn't your avatar kitty a leopard?

Head of a cat, tail of a coon - looks like that critter is the product of a "menagerie a trois". Never saw nothin' like it.

Going to have it stuffed?

Avatar kitty is a leopard......but the story behind the name didn't involve any pet leopards!

Most guys I know that have killed one get it mounted but I used a 60 Gr. NBT on this one,high shoulders and neck shot......those areas were pretty well gone, and the head was messed up too. Tough to be 'fur friendly ' on a critter than small...

Cam Newton would wear that tail with pride.

Cam's $12k fox tail

Damn! I smell a missed opportunity!

Especially, seeing as the rest was devoured by a large cat, it wasn't a panther, but...

Thinking Cam needs to work on his pride a bit right now...

Nah, just his football skills, strength and conditioning. Remember this was not a contract year. He already got paid!

He may be sporting yeti and unicorn tails the next few years.

Did the coon screw the squirrel or did the squirrel screw the coon?

Wish I coulda seen that.

Sure looks like a synthetic to me.

A clear case of too much gun. Too bad. A .22LR would have left something suitable for mounting.

You're right of course...on this once in a lifetime occasion of calling in a ringtail, I should have dropped everything, dashed the 27 miles back to town, got my .22 and shot him with just a tiny little hole in his hide.

Run whatcha brung. I shoot yotes n cats.w a 6mm or 22-250, maybe even a 25-06 if thats what I have. I leave em lay anyway. As long as I am saving turkeys n bunnies I am sasified.

I was running a 'fur friendly' load...but didn't know it would be called on to shoot something that small.......

The fur was pretty thin on that little rascal!

If it kills it is friendly in my mind. "Fur Friendly" in a 221 Furball may not be so friendly in my 22 Varminter.

I saw a black phase gray squirrel with a red tail one day when I was deer hunting. I could have killed it with my .30-30 but what would have been the point in that ? Just so I could say I once killed a black squirrel with a red tail and maybe take a pic of what was left ? Seems like a waste to me. I went back the next day with a .22 and killed it. It hangs in the living room today.

I have a ringtail I trapped and tanned back here.
The little chits are mean and smelly.

I heard they were mean, and occasionally set up shop in old deer blinds and make a real pita out of themselves.

Ingwe, that is really a cool trophy. I know some guys who only keep 8 x 10 photos of their trophies. They are a whole lot cheaper and easier to clean than stuffed animals and much more likely to be kept by those who follow us.

I'm leaning more and more that direction. The big stuff gets a European mount at best.....got a house full of taxidermy...

People wonder why I give away bear hides...

Did you get it in Texas? Those used to run around my HS way back in the cave man days.

Yep...in the Hill Country.

I grew up in SA and hunted near Kerville and Hondo with my uncles. Lots of squirrels and bunnies.

We used to get $2.50 a piece for them hides when we was in high school. That was about the time of the First Boer War.

Instead if a head mount, you should do an ass mount.

That was MONEY back then.

I like mine stuffed with onions and garlic, sprinkled with salt & pepper, and slow roasted over mesquite.

Found it! Sherman set the way back machine for 1973!

Cool Bob!


You had color film and everything!

Thanks Poobs! Here a pic taken in just about the same spot last September. Difference is I have offspring in pic! LOL!

Lookin' like some pretty tough hombres!

"Wore out" hombres.