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I was done by 8:30 am. I hope the rest of The season goes this well!

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Great job.

What are the details on the rifle, scope, and ammo?

Where are you located? I am in Georgia and our squirrel season starts again in mid August.


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Southeast Missouri. Our season always starts the Saturday before Memorial Day and ends February 15. I hunt them throughout the season but my favorite time is mid-August when hickory nuts start ripening. I have previously been using Ruger 10-22s but this year I switched to a super accurate Tikka T1X. The scope is an Athlon 4X12 rimfire model. This rifle is not picky so I shoot various brands of sub-sonic ammo. This is my first year using a suppressor and I love it!

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I too live in the bootheel of Missouri. Went myself opening morning, took a few but woods are thick. Itching to try my Bergara BMR but used the 20ga this time.

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Nice job fellow Ozarker's! Unless we get an usual cool spell I won't get after them until about September.


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I agree but but I just couldn’t let opening day come and go without celebrating!

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How are mosquitoes down your way? With all this rain, I’m afraid they are gonna be rough this year.

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Very nice. Our season here opens on Saturday. I hope to get a couple of days out. I'll take my .22 for sure. I also want to try my Ruger GP100 with .38 Spl 130 grain FMJ range rounds. That Ruger is so accurate with that cheap stuff I can break clays and parts of clays on the 50 yard range.

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Skinner, totally off topic but what's your affiliation with Sawmill Grill?


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OGB,

I don’t have a clue. When I copied that picture thru Postimage it added that.

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Here in SE Ks the season opens June 1st. We've had several squirrels in the farmyard, digging up the wifes flowers and I'm getting a running score on it pretty often. Still haven't gotten around to putting a stop to it. At nearly 70 one of the scoped 22s would be more appropriate, but I'd rather use the old family heirloom M94 Marlin 25-20 with peep sights and home cast bullets.

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Sounds like fun. Gotta protect those flowers!

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Sorry, spent the last week in Michigan finally putting my dad to rest. Mosquitos bad, ticks bad, no chiggars to speak of but did encounter examples of all 3 of the "bad" snakes, rattlesnake,copperhead, & cotton mouths. But I was in Mingo Swamp so I brought it on myself. Yearly get together with squirrel eating pals but I bowed out of the other 2 days. Will wait now for hickories in midAugust.

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Also, your grill is making my mouth water.

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Mingo Swamp is an interesting place there in the bootheel. I bowhunted there once with a couple guys a long time ago. I discovered that I am not a swamp hunter. I thoroughly disliked the experience. Just the sheer numbers of cottonmouths I saw that weekend was enough for me to not hunt that place again.


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I live 5 miles from Mingo. There is no shortage of cottonmouths or mosquitoes in the swamp.

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I usually hunt west of Poplar Bluff but chase deer by Arab so I could be found anyplace. Mingo is NOT my favorite place to tread. Cooler weather I like the shooting range outside Zelma on county road 708.(my favorite cartridge). Stay safe

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Bowhunted there twice in the 90's. Arrowed 2 nice deer. Lost them both in the water. Enough for me. Killed a small buck during one of their muzzleloader managed hunts. (It's a draw hunt)

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Yes I have lost them in the water. Killed one of my better bucks during a managed hunt in 2016. The feral hogs have had a terrible impact on the deer population in my opinion.

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