#2243144 - 06/06/08 09:43 PM
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Alamosa
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Has anyone else here had the experience of setting up in a spot that they think might have potential in black timber and then having a squirrel make a racket overhead that would raise the dead?
I can't count the number of times that has happened to me.
I'm not fluent in squirrel chatter but I don't think it is necessary to be. The message seems pretty clear that he's angry, I'm intruding, and he'll do whatever he can to blow my cover.
If I REALLY want to hunt a spot I'll wait it out, but that could be 15 minutes of annoying chatter, and who knows how much longer after that for the surrounding atmosphere to ease off and return to normal. More often than not I move on and find another spot.
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#2243493 - 06/07/08 06:46 AM
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jim in Oregon
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Alamosa,
Yes.
Resident small animals and birds are the junkyard dogs which often give larger critters a clue that there is an intruder-predator in their little world.
I have often observed that learning how to move and hunt and hide so the small critters don't know you are there is a huge plus when we still hunt, spot & stalk etc.
Squirrels have about a 15 minute 'memory' ..IF you are still.
Chipmunks are far worse..:(..
The larger critters use the birds and small game as a help in their security...Ya want to be undetected? Hunt and move so slow and unobtrusively that even the banana slugs feel like you belong there..:0 Jim
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#2243499 - 06/07/08 06:54 AM
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saddlesore
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Then they take to dropping pine cones on you.
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#2243605 - 06/07/08 08:22 AM
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I've sat on a game trail deer hunting and had squirrels start up their chatter and could hear something coming down the trail in heavy timber and heard whatever it was turn around and go back up the trail.
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#2244147 - 06/07/08 04:38 PM
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rost495
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They kinda irritate me, but usually stop soon enough. I've also used them when setup, they chatter at a lot of stuff... They have announced game showing up.
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#2246487 - 06/09/08 08:41 AM
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VERY TRUE. A few years back my buddy and I were doing a evening hunt. About 20 min into it I had seen a few doe It was looking good. Then I heard 10 shots coming from his way. I went over there to find him standing there Beretta 92 in hand 10 round and the critter was still going to town.
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#2246611 - 06/09/08 09:56 AM
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Jeff_O
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A squirrel screwed up my best chance at an elk last season... little fugger. I went back to try and waste his rodent butt with a 200-gn 8mm TSX but of course, he was long gone.
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#2250943 - 06/11/08 02:29 PM
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They bark at everything that moves, so they are as informative to me as they are to game. Magpies are another good informer. I've spotted bedded deer and elk by watching magpies as they cross a valley headed to another mountain. They wheel in and look for parasites etc on bedded critters.
Ravens, eagles, jays, and coyotes are good messengers too if one is predator hunting. The will point out the location of gut piles, dead critters, and hunting predators.
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#2269677 - 06/22/08 06:29 PM
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bigrocks
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100% know the woods sounds like the game you hunt. use it to YOUR advantage. 15 miles back a chipmunk has probably never seen a human in it's life but will still blow. wonder what it did/does
when it first sees a deer/elk/bear/mink ect. just act natural like you belong there. i,ve been 20-25 ft. away from wild deer that knew i was there from 50-60 yds. SLOW DOWN and RELAX, pic some leaves, stir the ground, take a step or 2, look around, pay it no mind. just act natural, he'll shut up sooner than you think, time and time again.
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#2271125 - 06/23/08 03:55 PM
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watch4bear
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Squirrels fear these
http://www.tbotech.com/blow-gun.htm
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#2271220 - 06/23/08 04:36 PM
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I had a red squrrel follow me through a tamarack swamp in Michigan's UP. I eventually quieted him down with a 200 grain round nose from my 35 Remmy. Got a complete pass through.
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#2271289 - 06/23/08 05:04 PM
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huntsman22
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Why'd he follow ya? Did he think you was a big nut? Stalker type?
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#2274706 - 06/25/08 12:12 PM
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You want to hear squirrels freak out let a hawk or a owl land any where within sight of one squirrel. They will go nuts! Having seen this on several occations, and still seeing deer move later on, I don't let it discourage me too much.
Edited by MarkG (06/25/08 12:12 PM)
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#2278259 - 06/27/08 05:32 AM
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Blue Jays have told me game was around before, in the thicket. As for squirrels, nothing a bit of shot from the scatter gun wont take care of! 
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#2278271 - 06/27/08 05:42 AM
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I love the little bastards...they are entertaining. I like it when they creep down a tree or along a deadfall and don't know you are there til you go "boo" and they come out of ther skin! I'll take them over pine martins in camp any day
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#2278530 - 06/27/08 08:10 AM
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Has anyone else here had the experience of setting up in a spot that they think might have potential in black timber and then having a squirrel make a racket overhead that would raise the dead?
Hypothetically speaking, "perhaps." Y' know something? At 6-8 feet, "I think" a patched .58 cal round ball "might" go clean through a squirrel. Just a feeling. (TM)
Tom
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#2278792 - 06/27/08 10:25 AM
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One time a little red squirrel was blowing my cover, he came down to just about eye level on me about 10 feet away. The only thing I could think of beside smearing him across the tree was to show my teeth as big as I could to him. He beat feet so quick I laughed out loud and blew my own cover. It was worth it, never forget that.
But yes, they can be to your adavantage as well if you're still hunting and something else is tripping his whistle.
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