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Post by Paws on Sept 17, 2006 5:45:49 GMT 12.75
Toby I use two copper pennies! ;D Sometimes the brass from a couple spent shells.
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Post by Mars on Sept 18, 2006 7:17:45 GMT 12.75
She sits and waits. She has her trees staked out and sits until she's ready to pick up the squirrels. Bumper crop of this years squirrels! She figures why "walk" to them when they come to her. I've knocked down a whole 2 squirrels this year which has led to my being picked on. ;D I've called a couple to her and she likes that but I prefer her to get them on her own. I've tried teaching her to do the call but she hasn't got the hang of it or even close to it yet. I don't use anything but my mouth. I can imitate a squirrel exactly. Drives them nuts. ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 13, 2008 14:46:46 GMT 12.75
Time to dust off this old thread again. Small game season's in full swing down here and Fred done up and got back in the swing of things. The older two youngins are just as excited as he is this year too and them three and me headed to a big old oak hammock to pot a few of them tree-rats and doggone if we didn't have a good time! Thursday we went out in the last hour or so of light and each of the kids popped one, but we'd missed the feed and didn't see but only a couple more. So, yesterday we headed out two hours earlier and I popped one and the three youngins busted two each and we saw quite a few more. Ten (all really nice fat ones) is just about right for a mess on the table too.! I have some good pictures of the kids after their hunt and I'll get some of Chicken browning them in the skillet Monday evening and post them here. I really look forward to these lazy hunts wit the kids. Fred has to stick with me at all times because he's nearly as crazy as a sprayed roach, but the other two are old enough (and responsible enough) to spread out a hundred or so yards to either side of me. All of them crack shots too! We expended nine rounds of ammo to put these ten squirrels in the freezer. What? Nine rounds accounting for ten squirrels? Yep, Fred pulled of a great shot! He waited until two of them were lined up and took them both off the limb side by side. Ya ain't never seen that youngin grinning no wider I tell ya!
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Post by Mars on Jul 25, 2008 13:44:00 GMT 12.75
Our season opens Aug. 23 for the fall season. Can't deny that I'm getting the itch to get back at it.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 26, 2008 13:52:03 GMT 12.75
You and me both!
I got until November before I can wing any .22's their way, but the two boys already have a bait pile working with plenty of squirels around this year. They're planning on ambushing them with their bows and blunted arrows this year after school. They're legal as of the third Saturday of September with archery equipment.
Here by the house there's planty, but I haven't seen many at all in the woods while driving around to my deer spots. Hope they hadn't had a die off because they'd been thicker'n fleas the last few years.
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Post by Mars on Aug 17, 2009 13:53:15 GMT 12.75
Our squirrel opened Saturday but we have no plans at this time to hunt because it's too hot.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 18, 2009 5:50:18 GMT 12.75
That's about the way it is here too. I'm skeered the squirrels still got the worms in 'em. Im gonna wait until we start to getting some cooler weather.
I found a guy down a couple counties below me that sells shelled peanuts in bulk and I bought a half-ton off of him for hog feed. Well, Fred's got six feeders running in the woods below Dad's place and he tells me the squirrels are the fattest he's ever seen.
He's turning sixteen in October and he's been behaving good enough, so Dad's promised him his own .22. I got a feeling we'll be eating an awful lot of squirrel around here this winter!
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Post by Mars on Aug 20, 2009 14:59:05 GMT 12.75
So much for listening to others. Squirrel opens this Saturday not last Saturday as I was told. Good thing I picked up a guide yesterday. Doesn't matter as it's still too warm this week.
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Post by Mars on Aug 22, 2009 16:44:44 GMT 12.75
OK, I guess I lied because I let my daughter talk me into taking her hunting in the morning so I guess we WILL be squirrel hunting. The good news is that it has cooled down a little and should barely hit 80 tomorrow. I did tell her that we are setting out the trail camera and since she wants to hunt she has to carry it.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 23, 2009 7:49:13 GMT 12.75
Well? She get any bushytails?
I got an e-mail from Tom Griffin the other day and he'd been out for his first squirrel hunt of the year and popped him a few with an old .410. Nice fat ones too! He sent me a couple of pictures and I showed Fred and he's really standing on his head now.
He put them peanuts out in squirrel feeders, but the damn coons, possums, and deer keep raiding his feeders. Them peanuts draw critters about as well as any corn I've put out and almost half the cost of corn.
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Post by Mars on Aug 23, 2009 14:17:16 GMT 12.75
Well... no. I had her set her alarm for 5:30am and told her to get me up since I go to bed about 3am. I woke up at my normal 10am and asked her if she didn't set the alarm. She said no and when she got up it was pouring rain so she didn't wake me because she didn't want to hunt in the rain.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 13, 2009 18:26:45 GMT 12.75
Chicken called today about three o'clock and asked if I'd take her squirrel hunting since she'd been seeing a lot of them back behind the horse barn. She didn't have to twist my arm too hard and we sat behind a roll of hay and plinked away with an old Stevens single shot .22lr that's older than she and I put together. She dropped four and let me take the last one to put five in the skillet for tomorrow night's supper. Gonna cut 'em into five pieces and brown 'em good in veggie oil, then set 'em aside and make a gravy with plenty of onions and peppers, then put the squirrels back in the gravy and cover the skilet and let it simmer for awhile. Served with some white rice, cornbread, mustard greens, and large quantities of sweet tea....I can't wait!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 17, 2009 8:36:26 GMT 12.75
Fred came a knockin' yesterday with a .410 on his shoulder and wanting me to step out behind the barn to bust some bushytails. My legs were too sore and swollen to get out there, so I sat on the back porch and helped him spot them. He got four before I had him call it a day. Until the other day when I went out with Chicken, I had no idea just how many squirrels were out there. I hadn't been paying much attention, but Fred kept telling me that we had a bumper crop. Gonna be some fine eating around the Benoit table this fall! ;D
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Post by eaglenest on Nov 17, 2009 8:53:32 GMT 12.75
I love fried squirrel and make gravy with the dripping and biscuits...what a great bkft!!
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Post by Mars on Aug 29, 2010 15:34:01 GMT 12.75
Squirrel is open once again. In what is turning out to be a tradition, my daughter didn't wake me up this morning. She knew I had a rough day yesterday so she let me sleep.
This evening we went to Jackson Island. Saw plenty of deer sign and since we forgot the OFF, plenty of misquito bites but no squirrels. After feeding the blood suckers for an hour we came home for the bug juice.
We went to our bear hunting spot so we could check on our stands while hunting. Meghan shot and missed at a squirrel and that was the only one we saw.
I had the new Mossberg 500 in .410 and she had hers in 20 ga..
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Post by Paws on Aug 30, 2010 0:32:50 GMT 12.75
Haven't seen or heard any squirrel since Spring. Deer here are still light buff color. I'd think they would be turning dark by now. Rabbits are all but gone.
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Post by brittonfaith on Aug 30, 2010 5:58:01 GMT 12.75
I've still got some bushy tails frequenting the area behind the chicken house. Nuts haven't fallen yet so it's a little early for major foraging action. Guess the neighbor didn't eat them all. The back yard doe is taking on a red cast. Guess after tonight I'll be fattening her up on leftover hay and grain. Have seen several bunnies, but most don't make it past their first summer because of the strays and coyotes.
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