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I forgot to add info for the pic I just posted. Back on opening day of Missouri’s squirrel season I posted a pic of my first hunt. I had decided early on that I was going to keep a record of the statistics that I thought you guys might find interesting. The following statistics cover the hunts that took place from 5-28 through 8-24.
Total squirrels bagged - 102
Grey females - 44
Grey males - 50
Fox females - 3
Fox males - 5
Average shot distance - 19.68 yards
Closest shot - 6 yards
Farthest shot - 44 yards
Total rounds fired - 135
Kill percentage - 76%

It’s time now to take a break and get ready for an upcoming Wyoming pronghorn hunt!

that is a pile of squirrels! thats also kind of wild that your season is exactly backwards from ours which starts 9-1 and ends 3-31. bring that rifle with you on your antelope hunt for some prarie dogs while you are here :}

That's awesome stuff! I love squirrel hunting and don't make near enough time/effort to do it as much as I should.

Joe,

I plan on doing just that!

I’m down here in semo myself but for me the hunting has been hit or miss. Water has been my key. I believe I’m just under 40 for the year. In the swampy places I’ve toted a 20ga.

Went out and killed two this morning.
Nice morning but it got hot quick. Awfully humid.
It was the first time that I have been squirrel hunting by myself in 17 years.
I have four boys, all of whom I’ve raised in the woods, from ages 23 to 13.
Whenever we were squirrel hunting, I was taking one of the boys. Every now and then they would let me take a shot with my Smith 18 or my Buckmark.
As soon as one was old enough to hunt by himself it was time for the next one, lol.
The youngest just turned 13 a couple of days ago and he had some boys come over and stay the night.
I had a cup of coffee and then grabbed the 580 and headed for the woods. First squirrels I’ve killed with a rifle in years. It felt good.

skinner-
Nice! What ammo did you use? Good lookin rifle

Skinner: since we live in the same general area I’ll ask you. August has always meant hickory trees for me but I found quite a few untouched. You? Most all the squirrels I took in August were near water and bouncing along the ground on their way to (?).

I used Remington sub-sonics through out this summer. My Tikka T1x really shines with them.
DeWman it’s good to hear from you again. This has been a strange summer concerning hickory trees. Starting in the middle of July, I noticed a lot of shell bark and shag bark hickories were dropping their nuts prematurely. I suppose this was due to the extremely dry conditions. Then when the time came for squirrels to start working on the nuts, I noticed that not all trees had nuts and some that did were not being touched. I had to move quickly until I starting hearing and seeing activity from certain trees. Most of my later kills were from shell bark trees. My kill percentage was well over 80% until I had to start shooting them practically straight up in some of those trees that are 100’ tall!

Our squirrel season here in Alabama is starting in a few days. I'm a bit worried; I have several pecan trees that are usually hit hard by now, chewed up green pecan bits all over the place. There are none this time. I looked the trees over and I don't see any nuts, probably because of the very dry summer we've had too. I hope that there are at least acorns in the oaks, otherwise the squirrels are going to be scarce.

I have seen no acorns in the lowland areas that I’ve hunted this summer. But in the hilly areas I have seen white oaks, pin oaks, and red oaks that are loaded. I hope that holds true for the central ozarks where I will be chasing deer in a couple of months.

Nice!

Awesome!