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next Wed., Aug. 15. If it's cool enough, I hope to get out and shoot a few "limb chickens". maddog
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I may ditch work that day and get after them as well. If I don't skip the whole day, I may just get after them that afternoon. Good times. I just wish the closest place for me to go wasn't 1hr away...
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pointer, I'm lucky. I have about 12 different woods I can hunt within 10 minutes of home.
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whats gonna be your go-to squirrel rifle/glass for opening?
noticed pecan crops lookin decent here, oaks are starting to show effects of drought.
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First week of Sept here . They are already cutting the Hickory around my home.
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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pointer, I'm lucky. I have about 12 different woods I can hunt within 10 minutes of home.
maddog That is good luck!! I guess I need to get out and knock on some more doors, but about every woodlot around here has a house or two in them...
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while deer hunting off a ladder stand last season..counted over 20 squirrles taking pecans out of small orchard...dang went back 1st of january and killed 14...hope to hunt it again..shoot them with a 22 mag in the head...dont have to chase them down...
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I bought a little H&R Sportster single shot, last spring. I put a 2-7x nikon prostaff on it. Been shooting CCI SV LRs through it. It's going hunting first day out, but I have my old Marlin 39A as a backup. maddog
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pointer, picking up places to squirrel hunt, around me, is easy. Finding good places to deer hunt, not so much.... maddog
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Squirrel season opens the 4th Saturday in August in Tennessee. I've loved hunting squirrels since I was a kid and intend to be in the woods with my Kimber Hunter .22 rifle.
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I bought a little H&R Sportster single shot, put a 2-7x nikon prostaff on it. maddog i'm using those 2x7's on 3 rimfires, and they work pretty good for my eyes.
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pointer, picking up places to squirrel hunt, around me, is easy. Finding good places to deer hunt, not so much.... maddog That's a big 10-4!! Some folks act like your asking to eat their first born... Good luck on Wednesday!
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pointer, if I don't make it out Wed., I'm definately going out Thurs. BTW, where do you live? I'm located west of Monticello and the lakes.
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Noblesville or more appropriately, the mess that is the subdivision "forest" that surrounds Indy.
I've been up in your neck of the woods quite a bit lately for work. I was on a couple of properties that border the Tippecanoe south of the lakes 3 weeks ago. Definitely lots of oaks to keep the squirrels happy!
If I don't get out this week, I will be taking my 5yo to our cabin near Patoka Lake this weekend and give it a go. I can't decide if I made a mistake telling him about it. He's worse now than he is before Christmas.
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next Wed., Aug. 15. If it's cool enough, I hope to get out and shoot a few "limb chickens". maddog Save some for me Mike!
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ingwe, That compact Leopard hound you're training would be a perfect squirrel dog.
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ingwe, gotta get me enough to make some "limb chicken chowder"! maddog
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im from southern indiana squirrel hunting there is great ive killed hundreds i envy yall up there huntign im stuck down here in north carolina and just dont c that many squirrels out here on the coast as ya do in the woods up there
You dont hurt them if you dont hit them
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but my squirrel gun is a marlin model 60 with a 4-32 bushnell its a killin machine
You dont hurt them if you dont hit them
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Been busy all week, but I'm leaving in about 1 hr. for my 1st squirrel hunt of the season. Temp is in the low 50's, and no wind. Wish me luck and I will report back later.
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