Morning Squirrel Hunt

I finally caught the weather right and got a nice mess of squirrels for supper. Aside from a couple of crows this was first blood with my scoped 252. All head shot I might add.



Here is a bullet I recovered. It's an Aguila 38gr HP and as you can see it expanded nicely. I shot the squirrel in the head from a frontal direction and recovered the bullet under the hide near the last rib.

Well done.

Nice bunch of fox squirrels.

Gary,

Nice parcel! Grays? Any other species? I love my FA 252s.

Doc

We don't have grey squirrels here only fox squirrels. No limit and no season!

Congrats on the squirrels. The top one looks big as a house cat.

Great job! Are you deep frying or stew?

I'm brining them now but they are going to be browned first then into a dutch oven. Way too tough not to slow cook them.

nice gun and nice shot!

I can see you had a good morning.... Your 38gr .22 HP could not have performed any better...

Nice shooting Gary!

Nice mess of squirrels. Good shooting.

Nice way to spend a morning.

Staying sharp

That is handgun hunting right there. 😎

Most excellent! One of my favorite pastimes as well.

Now there is something I haven't done in a while. GREAT JOB! I have got to set some time aside to hunt squirrel again.

That's sweet! Congrats, Gary. I love hunt'n 'em and eat'n 'em😊!

Now on the table!

Gary
That's a cruel picture to put on the screen. We can't smell it or taste it .There are probably 3 or 4 people licking there computer screens right now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where are the biskets or the cornbread ?

Cornbread - just for the record!

HAHA!!! I was reading the posts to catch up, and got to the picture of the stew. I was making a deep sniffing sound through my nose and my wife goes, "WHAT are you DOING?" I said, "Come here and see!" She looked at the screen, and said, "You dork." Then I scrolled down and read your post and died laughing. My wife came over and all I could do was point at the post. She said, "Well, at least you're not the only one!"

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Gary,
Love the pearl onions, bet it was a great meal.Have a meal ready for four.

Nice bunch of squirrel and great hunting rig. I just bought an early model TC Contender with 10 In .22 barrel just for the purpose of squirrel hunting. Unfortunately by the tie I get it picked up the squirrel season in Georgia will be over. Never have figured out why there is a season on squirrels, it is not like they will be overhunted and wind up on the endangered species list without a season.

Very nice!

Ya know, I used to think the same thing. But then again, look what happened to the Passenger pigeon! Used to be so many of them that they used them for the original trap shoots!

I'd be the first one in line to shoot squirrels. Can't stand those little suckers planting trees in my yard all the time! Nothing but an overgrown rat to me, but if they were extinct, I think I just might miss the buggers, but only because they are fun to hunt, and good eating!!

With the falconry that I do, there are some states that have open season on jackrabbits and cottontails. Been that way for a long time, and there's no population issues there, so I don't see why squirrels would be any different. Not that many people hunt them, comparatively speaking anyway.

nice shooting and a good looking meal

Gary, how about the recipe? Looks just like the dish my
Grandmother used to make when I would get a mess of squacks with my pellet rifle.
I hunt them with my longbow now and sure get hungry before I get a good mess of them in the frezzer. HAH
Mike

X2. That looks like a stellar meal!

Looks good Gary, Nicely done

The recipe is listed on the recipe page under member services

Raptor, I thought about the Passenger Pigeon when I wrote that but my guess is that there are many times more bird hunters then squirrel hunters. Back when those birds were flying a group of hunters could go out and shoot hundreds, possibly thousands in a day, I can’t imagine that ever happening while squirrel hunting, they just don’t seem to generate enough hunting interest to ever impact the population numbers. Look at the ground squirrels in the western US, their populations seem to be impacted more by disease then heavy hunting pressure. I saw a statistic several weeks ago that said something around 806,000 squirrels were killed annually in the US, that’s nothing and my guess is it probably would probably not increase significantly if all states removed their season on them. This is just my guess and why I said that in my original post; however, your guess and opinion is as good as mine.