Posted: 9/24/2012 11:54:47 AM EDT
| Squirrel season is almost here, new battery for the red dot check, confirm zero check. cant wait for some smothered down tree rat over rice. |
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Been popping them for a month. Get up before sunrise, hide at the base of a pecan tree then listen for the sound of claws on bark. No closed season rocks when you have pecans to protect. Subsonics in the past, now I am using CCI Quiet long rifle ammo in either my Mossberg 42 or Remington 24. |
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some of the best days of my youth were spent wondering the forests in western michigan with my .22 and the dog  yea good times, my dad taught me to hunt them when i was 8, was a single shot 410 at the time, as I grew I got my 10/22 at the age of 14. Its the same rifle I use now. |
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My Squirrel popper. There is something extra special about hunting with a suppressed .22. You can shoot and the woods don't go silent. Also easier to get double kills.
*Clip clop* goes the action of the Ruger. Gary the squirrel falls off the tree. Buck the squirrel says, WTF, Garry? Garry? *Clip Clop* 
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Quoted: I enjoy hunting tree rats more that deer hunting. Go in the woods, listen for them barking and stalk right up under them. Constantly moving and shooting. My rig is a standard 10/22 with a Primary arms red dot. I haven't gone squirrel hunting in years, but I have to admit that it's more fun that sitting in a tree stand. Do you eat them? We made a stew out of them a couple of times, er, well, it was edible.... |
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I enjoy hunting tree rats more that deer hunting. Go in the woods, listen for them barking and stalk right up under them. Constantly moving and shooting. My rig is a standard 10/22 with a Primary arms red dot. I haven't gone squirrel hunting in years, but I have to admit that it's more fun that sitting in a tree stand. Do you eat them? We made a stew out of them a couple of times, er, well, it was edible.... You have to cook them slow, smother them down, if not they are really tough, |
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I enjoy hunting tree rats more that deer hunting. Go in the woods, listen for them barking and stalk right up under them. Constantly moving and shooting. My rig is a standard 10/22 with a Primary arms red dot. I haven't gone squirrel hunting in years, but I have to admit that it's more fun that sitting in a tree stand. Do you eat them? We made a stew out of them a couple of times, er, well, it was edible.... Which species? Red's are the least edible, IMO, and the smallest. Gray's and Fox are darn good eating if prepared correctly. |
| I used to get off the school bus run in the house, make a sammich to take with me and I was out the door with my rifle. Roamed the woods till it was too dark, usually bagging 6 to 10 of them. came home cleaned them and into the freezer, then I would do my homework. |
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I sooo miss squirrel hunting...the D-bag greenies over here decided that the tree rats are "cute" and now it's illegal to hunt them. Our neighborhoods are infested with them, and there seems to be 3 per tree when you're deer hunting..talk about an aweful racket! |
