Posted: 11/6/2007 5:26:20 AM EDT
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How sad is that? I went squirrel hunting 3 times last year and got nothing. Second time out this year and I nabbed this critter 15 minutes after I got into the woods. Got to break in the new fancy rifle. Saturday I am going to do a field to dinner plate photo essay. Going to fry it with some mashed taters and green beans.  Shot with CCI Green Tag. Shot entered right side, just behind the shoulder, and exited the left side neck which you can see here. Missed the meat.  She fell like a stone out of the tree, not moving any limbs. Instant kill.   Rifle is a 10/22 with Tactical Solutions barrel, Volquartzen trigger, Hogue stock, Leupold VX-I 2-7x28 scope, with a SWR supressor. Hunting squirrel with a suppressor is fun. my first time out this year I shot and missed a long shot, but the woods did not get quiet after the shot like they normally do. The woods stayed active like I had not shot. |
| I am anxious to get my Rem 541-THB threaded for my TAC-65 as here in PA we cannot hunt with the 10/22. I am sure it will make squirel hunting a whole lot more fun! I use a 22 only for squirels and I can normally get a half a dozen in a few hours but my Remington will shoot 1-inch groups at 100-yards so I don't need to get super close. |
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Start with a squirrel Ruger 10/22 Tactical Soultions Barrel Volquartzen trigger Hogue stock Harris bipod Leupold VX-I 2-7x28 scope SWR Warlock Supressor CCI Green Tag ammo Skin it and gut it  Cut into pieces so it does not look like I am eating a cat.  Flour, salt, pepper  Boil the squirrel until tender, then wash off any left over fur.  egg and milk wash to get the flour to stick to the meat  Fry in a cast iron skillet. If you are not frying in cast iron, you are not doing it right, IMO  The turn  The meal  Squirrel, Mashed potatoes with garlic and butter, green beans, squirrel, New Castle Brown Ale, The rifle that killed the meal, Springfield mil-spec 1911, cocked and locked, Microtech Halo III. Sorry, I forgot the extra mags. |
Tastes like chicken mostly. Just a little different. Yes, there is a surprising amount of meat on it, but it takes some digging to get it all. But one squirrel is enough for dinner for one with no leftovers. 1 week.  I shot it last Saturday morning, skinned and cleaned it, then stuck it in the freezer for a week, thawed it Saturday, cooked it Sunday. From fridge to table was about an hour.
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