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2 weeks and counting till squirrel Armageddon in Missouri.....

Good luck! Went out yesterday morning, saw 2 and nailed one with my single shot .22.

Saw three, only got a shot at one. The other two were only visible by watching the tree branches being disturbed, never could catch a brief pause to put the smackdown on them. This squirrel had a whole bunch of botfly larvae "woolves" on the opposite side from pictured. Pretty icky. I hate nasty dang parasites.

The boy was up, yesterday. He nailed two, and I got one. Started getting pretty warm by 10:30 am, so we hung it up.

it poured rain yesterday, so I got out the pressure cooker, and did up 20 limb chickens. The pulled meat is in the freexer for chowder, BBQ, teryaki, etc..... Not to mention, I got some more room in my freezer again.

One more with the Kimber Hunter and my favorite knife

Got three this morning between 7 and 9 am. Saw two more, but they saw me too and skeedadled at high speed.

Phillip, I like the pics except for the awful Poison Ivy in the last one. It likes me, me not so much for it!

Poison ivy is some evil stuff! Unfortunately this time of year the woods are carpeted with it. I've not had any rash from brief exposure while hunting, but have gotten some really bad bouts with it from particles flying around when cutting weeds.

Yep, I know it is out there and because it likes me so much I'm pretty attentive to it and do my best to avoid it but you're right some exposure is inevitable. I don't let it stop me from enjoying the great outdoors and my hunting.

Tonight: Limb Chicken Chowder on the Menu! Thanks to maddog!

Next week, Squirrel Armageddon in Missouri!

Sorry, I just saw this,

That'd be 50 yard targets.

Finally got a few days off from work- went for a walk with the shotgun and finally bloodied my new (to me) 16-gauge Model 12 on some squirrels. Never been to the area I hunted before, but limited out in about an hour or so. I’ll be back

Got the squirrels soaking in some salt water now- gonna grill some BBQ squirrel tomorrow (already have moose meat marinating for tonight). It was a beautiful day in the woods- it’s gonna be hard going back to work!

Got out for the first time this season this afternoon. It was windy and the canopy is still too thick but managed to ice four.

Good job SC. Those all look to be young ones and prime for some salt, pepper, flour, and hot grease!!

Yeah, I felt guilty on a couple of them. I intentionally passed on one little fellow, and ended up killing two about the same size. Hard to tell when they're cutting acorns in the top of a tall tree with all that canopy.

Just an experiment for pic post. Photo Bucket been playing games again. This is a test post.




No clue what's going on, but I can post pics again. Will post some pics of some we shot earlier this season, maybe tomorrow.

Some pics










Kind of a pain trying to post more than one pic at a time, from photo bucket, but at least I can post again!!

Now I don't feel so bad traveling all the way to Missouri to hunt squirrels...when I see an easy 1K worth of equipment around that squirrel!