|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
It has been an idea for a while to do a fall squirrel hunt with as many Campfire members as we can get.
So, time to start getting ideas down and working the plan for:
SQUIRREL SAFARI 2006
Location should probably be somewhere in the central East Coast region (high populations of squirrels, long seasons, large bag limits, and centrally located for a LOT of Campfire folks). Likely in the NF or a State Park, as numbers of folks can camp out and then disperse out to hunt throughout the NF or the State Park.
Ideas as to locations within the general geographic area are welcomed.
Oh, and yes, cook-offs, informal shooting and BS matches, etc. are of course on the tentative agenda.
What think y'all?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,291
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 3,291 |
I'd be up for that.....Been looking for an excuse to buy a NULA anyhow. Lot's of big public hardwood country in the Missouri Ozarks. Spent the best years of my life there with 22 in hand when I was a kid! I'd be up for just about any locale within a 6hr drive!
X-VERMINATOR
Sooner or later our heritage of hunting is going to be a rich mans sport and the words "Outfitter" and "Hunt Industry" will be synonymous with cancer and A.I.D.S. among blue collar hunters like me and my family! (A.L. Williams - 2010)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
The Ozarks are certainly a possibility. As in TN, the Smokies in NC, KY, north GA, SW VA, and maybe even WV (though there must be better places... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />). All of them are pretty central to those of us east of the Mississippi, and in the heart of really good squirrel country. Some of the rest of ya have to have thoughts on this.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579 |
Big Walker Mt. in SW Virginia if I am recalling properly, is contained in the Jefferson National Forest. Lots of truck trails and lots of big Fox Squirrels. Just about anywhere in that region would be good squirrel hunting and it is the center of the universe anyway....
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 263
Campfire Member
|
|
Campfire Member
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 263 |
I'll be there with a couple of my best squirrel safari rifles if it ends up in fact being in SW VA!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579 |
The Blue Ridge....Amen brother!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 370
Campfire Member
|
|
Campfire Member
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 370 |
Heck, I`d show up, just to meet you guys!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
Bunnyrunner, that's part of the reason. Though large quantities of real Brunswick stew, squirrel kabobs, etc. ain't a bad idea either. And, then of course, there's the squirrelin'... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 11,117
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 11,117 |
count me in if it fewer than 500 miles ...
abiding in Him,
><>fish30ought6<><
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 27,692
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 27,692 |
Big Walker Mt. in SW Virginia if I am recalling properly, is contained in the Jefferson National Forest. Lots of truck trails and lots of big Fox Squirrels. Just about anywhere in that region would be good squirrel hunting and it is the center of the universe anyway.... In warm weather they also have some big rattlers and copperheads around Big Walker to enliven the dull monotany of chasing tree rats <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Bye the way I think a squirrel safari is a capital idea HBB
Member: Clan of the Turdlike People.
Courage is Fear that has said its Prayers
�If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.� Ronald Reagan.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579 |
yeah, yer right, but squirrel medicine works on snakes too!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
Hey, y'all leave them snakes alone... they help keep damnyankees and city folks outta the deep woods.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 7,579 |
I thought that the bears, cats and moonshiners did that!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 27,692
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 27,692 |
Hey, y'all leave them snakes alone... they help keep damnyankees and city folks outta the deep woods. In that case maybe we need to stock more rattlers and start shootin the DamnYankees <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> HBB
Member: Clan of the Turdlike People.
Courage is Fear that has said its Prayers
�If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.� Ronald Reagan.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130
Campfire Kahuna
|
|
OP
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 61,130 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 907
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 907 |
Count me in too ... even if I do live north of the M-D line. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
B.I.C.
'tikka
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 27,500
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 27,500 |
So long as it does not interfere with already planned trips. Ill be there. And I will be driving and flying all the way from Walla Walla WA! I used to shoot squirrels when I was younger and I LOVE to EATEM! Say, any of Y'all want to come out to this region and blast ground squirrels by the hundreds in April or May? I cannot accomodate a hundred of you guys, but I could show 6-10 a fun weekend. Note, these guys are too small and flea infested to eat or even touch. Plus, when you smack 'em with a .222 and such there is not much left <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 5,087
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 5,087 |
Safariman, I would love to meet up with you to scorch some flea bags. My 222 could use a work out, along with a few other toys. I have been going over to Stevensville Montana to a bit of GS blasting in the past few years but only having to travel less than half the distance would be worth a whole bunch of fresh oysters.
Bullwnkl.
Money talks Bull [bleep] walks
Business as usual
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 13,760
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 13,760 |
Hey VAnimrod...read your profile. You a country lawyer now? I am, its a great thing.
War Damn Eagle!
|
|
|
|
|
207 members (12344mag, 160user, 338rcm, 22kHornet, 2UP, 20 invisible),
1,593
guests, and
1,021
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,191,759
Posts18,476,448
Members73,942
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
![[Linked Image]](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/wildswalker/siglinepic3.jpg)
