What’s everyone’s favorite small game? So far ruff grouse is mine, having a hard time figuring out how to cook rabbit

Squirrel hunting = small critter but big game!

Snowshoe hare followed by cottontail with my pack of beagles. Rarely ever shoot one, just like the music of the hounds.

Squirrels

hunting grey squirrels with a 22 rifle in PENN.....ahhh to be young again

Squirrels, when they are working on walnuts or hickory

Squirrels


Right now, very young and best eating.

Squirrels. They are delicious smoked. Then again so are cotton tails.

Like to hunt them all. For eating, grouse is the best around here, if you can find any. Rabbit is the best rodent.

I'll take cottontail over grouse any day ending in "Y". Grouse are actually well down on my list of favored eating. Never been crazy about "white meat" from any bird.

Cotton Tail, no doubt,fun to hunt and great eating. Rio7

Limb Chickens, hands down my favorite!

I've tried and tried to get other folks interested in hunting fox squirrels. but nobody seems to think that shooting tree rats is worth the time and effort. I think that it is the perfect way to practice for still-hunting whitetails on edge and in cover.

I hear that. I am always bumping whitetails out of bed while squirrel hunting. Come November, I just swap the 39a for the 99F and carry a bigger knife.

Squirrels
Turkey
Are you including waterfowl?

I saw a solid black squirrel in the small park where I feed and play with the squirrels... But the most unusual one was a grey squirrel with a solid reddish tail... looked to have been bleached then dyed to match a punks hair color.. my camera is broke as soon as I can get it working I will try to get some pictures... Is someone trying to fool with me do you think?

Those are color phases of a grey squirrel. I remember shooting a couple of blacks as a kid thinking I’d get top dollar from Mepps for them.....I was disappointed to find out they were worth the same as the others.

Sure do miss squirrel hunting with my pa back in the UP. Those were good times. I shoot a lot of red squirrels here in Alaska, but that is just because they are destructive little schits....

Ruffed grouse! When I lived in Arizona it was Mearn’s quail

A rabbit, to me, is great in front of the gun & on the plate. My little Beagle agrees & we stay in hunting shape most of the Winter. Small game is where it’s at

Bunnies with a 28ga