Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game Show Your Squirrel Hunting Photos

I shot that one back to avoid any bones.
Taxidermist can fix about anything.

I just saw that in the regs. Red Squirrel. I have a few I need to get even with.

Being a lifelong squirrel hunter, I really enjoyed these pictures, but I really got a laugh out of this one. Thanks!

Actually, mostly Oak of all types.

Certainly is fun....

Considering the young man with the O/U, I believe it was one of the newer Mossberg’s.

This thread is good motivation to get out squirrel hunting next year.

it is indeed....when deer season opens i usually put all else on hold, but with my deer chasing pretty wrapped up for the season we usually spend a lot of time in January on the prowl for squirrels.

Friend of ours has a pecan orchard surrounded by creek bottoms with mature timber, and we're the only ones that squirrel hunt it....usually do pretty well there.
Due to increasing numbers of hogs, i often pack around a .22mag now...prior to that it was a 22LR with sub-sonics for early season, and 17mach2 for longer shots when leaves drop.
Now that hogs are more likely, been packing a .22mag with CCI Gamepoints, or FMJ's,...both a bit less destructive than JHP's.

Weather permitting, we'll be prowling around the woods on New Years Day after squirrels,...went out yesterday & shot a couple of new-to-me rifles in 17M2 and .22mag to get ready for woods walking.

Assorted squirrel carnage photos from the last few years:

Anschutz .22LR, 3x9 compact, both from here in the classifieds:


First squirrel on that snowy morning...Anschutz 22mag, 2.5-8x:


Same 22mag, different day:


Mixed bag that day, again with the Anschutz 22mag:


Maple T-Bolt, in 22mag:

a few other 22LR's that get packed around some...

Marlin tube-fed , with Nikon 2x7 Pre-Monarch:


That pile of cut nut-shells that built up under the tree was nearly a foot high...must be a favorite spot for them:

CZ452, 3x9 EFR-AO.....i shoot this one quite a bit..

Kimber 17Mach2:


A different Kimber, also 17Mach2:


Magnum Research, 17mach2

Where can I find one of them orange Squirrel toters?

Belding's Ground squirrels here. Primarily in alfalfa fields. Up from late Feb into early June and under ground for the rest of the year. Adults about 10 to 11 inches tall and youngsters are mouse size when they first emerge. On a good day one can do a brick of 22 LR's and that is shooting in single shot mode.


Give a kid a 10-22 and a banana clip, you can't afford to be out there with him.

A few more shots

Reloder...buddy of mine had a local paracord guy make that one up, was only about $20....go to ebay & type in " paracord game tote" and there is a bunch of guys that make 'em in about any color/style you want...

Nice Kimber Phillip. Who made the fixed blade knife? Good looking knife.

It's an A. G. Russell, Gent's Hunter model, 6-3/4"OAL.

Great looking knife from a great knife maker. Thanks.

I haven't Squirrel hunted in years, so no photo's to add. When I did a Kleingunther K22 was my rifle of choice. Now it would be a Kimber Hunter or a Kimber HS restocked in a Kimber Varmint stock.

son & i went for a woods walk, on this one i packed the Cz452 style, he carried a Stainless marlin tube fed:



different day, same CZ..


Kimber Stainless Classic:


Marlin again, in the bed of the meat wagon...had just emptied out a load of pigs:


same marlin, different day: