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JimEb

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Posted: 1/30/2024 9:00:15 AM EDT

Last Oct I did a backpacking/squirrel hunting trip out there. Was the first time there, just scouted via google maps and picked an area.

Huge property and it’s pretty neat you can backpack camp. Anyway, I went for 2 nights around the North Settlement and Shale Rd area.

Did not see a single squirrel nor evidence of a squirrel’s existence. Encountered deer, porcupine and all night was lulled to sleep by howling coyotes and owls.

Anyway, it’s a huge properly and will take many years exploring it. Is it worth the effort to squirrel hunt here? Any locals knowledgeable with the property that could give recommendations?

USSRangerSM Deus Vult Joined Dec 2013 Posts 13188 EE 100% (131) WI, USA	Posted: 1/30/2024 9:05:44 AM EDT [#1] no clue but peaks my interest...tag
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DirtyDirk Joined Apr 2016 Posts 3604 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 1/30/2024 2:39:20 PM EDT [#2] spent many years hunting squirrels. Small private woodlots>large public lands.

JimEb Joined Nov 2008 Posts 15180 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 1/30/2024 4:44:34 PM EDT [#3] Quote History Originally Posted By DirtyDirk: spent many years hunting squirrels. Small private woodlots>large public lands. View Quote Yeah, not arguing with that, but this is what I have to work with.

jack_pine_savage Joined Aug 2023 Posts 41 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 1/30/2024 6:20:23 PM EDT [#4] I used to work with a guy from Winona, MN. who was an enthusiastic squirrel hunter. He would hunt in the "Richard J. Dorer Memorial" state forest. He told me that some years back, the hnting pressure from the newly arrived Hmong hunters was so intense the squirrel population never recovered. Gary

kapusta Joined Mar 2013 Posts 1109 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 1/30/2024 6:37:12 PM EDT [#5] All you'd have to do is convince them that coyotes are good eatin' and that would take care of that problem.

DirtyDirk

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Posted: 1/31/2024 8:33:51 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By jack_pine_savage:
I used to work with a guy from Winona, MN. who was an enthusiastic squirrel hunter. He would hunt in the "Richard J. Dorer Memorial" state forest. He told me that some years back, the hnting pressure from the newly arrived Hmong
hunters was so intense the squirrel population never recovered.
Gary

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quite a few Hmong around here. they shoot and eat chipmunks and red squirrels. Pretty much anything that moves.

Squirrels breed 3 times a year and if left alone they will repopulate in 2-3 years. Unless they are never left alone to recover.

Its not just the Hmong tho, squirrel hunting in public land has always been a popular pastime in the fall.

9divdoc Member Joined Mar 2001 Posts 133939 EE 100% (120) WI, USA	Posted: 2/2/2024 12:10:02 AM EDT [#7] My old dirt bike stomping grounds
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crawej21 Member Joined Nov 2014 Posts 1867 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 2/2/2024 9:13:52 AM EDT [#8] If you work your way over towards Potter and O, find public land close to woods and meadows sporting clays/ pheasant farm. I used to turkey and squirrel hunt in that area.

Chipper44mag Joined Sep 2010 Posts 907 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 2/3/2024 5:38:51 PM EDT [#9] Wait til all the 13m immigrants start hunting.

9divdoc Member Joined Mar 2001 Posts 134018 EE 100% (120) WI, USA	Posted: 2/4/2024 11:25:42 AM EDT [#10] Quote History Originally Posted By Chipper44mag: Wait til all the 13m immigrants start hunting. View Quote and turn to cannibalism
	For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

jack_pine_savage Joined Aug 2023 Posts 42 EE 0% (0) WI, USA	Posted: 2/5/2024 12:38:23 PM EDT [#11] Quote History Originally Posted By Chipper44mag: Wait til all the 13m immigrants start hunting. View Quote Just remember that our recent "migrant" arrivals come from third world sh!tholes where game laws and bag limits either don't exist or are rarely enforced and there is a real possibility of excessive over harvesting of wild game and fish. Gary

9divdoc

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Posted: 2/5/2024 1:26:56 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By jack_pine_savage:

Just remember that our recent "migrant" arrivals come from third world sh!tholes where game laws and bag limits either don't exist or are rarely enforced and there is a real possibility of excessive over harvesting of wild game and fish.
Gary

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If you lived in Wausau back in the old days and remember all the critters that used to live in the parks...including ducks and geese...

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

Lorax Is it fo time yet? Joined Jul 2007 Posts 31245 EE 100% (1) WI, USA	Posted: 3/11/2024 10:01:47 AM EDT [#13] I've backpacked it. I was thinking I need to go back when I was in the area a few weeks ago.

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