 Fox squirrel this morning
#182878
08/26/2017 2:15 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 4,669
Chance Weldon
OP
Distinguished Expert
|
|
OP
Distinguished Expert
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 4,669 |
Squirrel season opened this morning. They've really changed their traveling habits since the spring season. However, I started hearing the distinctive sound of a squirrel munching on something nearby. As I approached, a gray squirrel fled past me, too quickly to get a shot at him. It was apparent where he had been eating. There were two walnut trees barely thirty feet apart. While I waited under one, a fox squirrel began leaping toward me. I missed him the first time, and he started chattering loudly while leaping into the walnut tree. It was only when he had moved to the trunk ten feet directly above me that I had another opportunity. I hit him between his eyes, slightly closer to his left eye, and quickly stepped back as he fell. Still got hit with a few drops of blood.  I only saw one other squirrel, but I at least I've found a good place to set up for future hunts.
Formerly TN Lone Wolf
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." - J.K. Rowling
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: Chance Weldon]
#182881
08/26/2017 3:43 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 543
ruger4570
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 543 |
Congrats. They are tough to get with all the leaves right now.
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: ruger4570]
#182885
08/26/2017 5:06 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 605
longhunter
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 605 |
Nice work! I went out yesterday and must have seen around fifteen but never got a shot, just too many leaves.
"The reason a dog has so many friends,He wags his tail instead of his tongue."
"I don't always listen to Black Sabbath,But when I do so do the neighbors"
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: Chance Weldon]
#182886
08/26/2017 5:24 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 4,461
pab1
Distinguished Expert
|
|
Distinguished Expert
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 4,461 |
Congrats and great shooting!
Experience is the best teacher, hunger good sauce.
Osborne Russell Journal of a Trapper
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: Chance Weldon]
#182887
08/26/2017 5:41 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,608
s4s4u
Shootist
|
|
Shootist
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,608 |
Rod, too.
Short cuts often lead to long recoveries.
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: s4s4u]
#182890
08/26/2017 8:23 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,715
jamesfromjersey
Shootist
|
|
Shootist
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,715 |
Life member-NRA-SCI
Member-HHI #2900-HHASA #067
Colt-Ruger-Freedom Arms-and S&W Collector Assoc.s
"I have more guns then I need but not as many as I want" "Handgun hunters HAVE to be good"
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: jamesfromjersey]
#182892
08/26/2017 11:34 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 463
AK hgunner1
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 463 |
Nice....
I use to love hunting squirrels back east. A fox squirrel where I use to live is a trophy in itself seeing they were far and few. More like rare would be a better term.
Charlie
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of GOD
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: AK hgunner1]
#182893
08/26/2017 11:45 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 4,669
Chance Weldon
OP
Distinguished Expert
|
|
OP
Distinguished Expert
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 4,669 |
Thanks guys! A fox squirrel where I use to live is a trophy in itself seeing they were far and few. More like rare would be a better term. That's how it is here. We have quite a few of them, it's just that we have far more grays.
Formerly TN Lone Wolf
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." - J.K. Rowling
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: AK hgunner1]
#182894
08/26/2017 11:52 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,608
s4s4u
Shootist
|
|
Shootist
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 9,608 |
Nice....
A fox squirrel where I use to live is a trophy in itself seeing they were far and few. More like rare would be a better term. Here as well. I have one in my yard for the first time in years. Not much for them to eat here. All pines.
Rod, too.
Short cuts often lead to long recoveries.
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: s4s4u]
#182900
08/27/2017 10:55 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 649
dhom
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 649 |
Good shooting!! You just can not get better practice.
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: dhom]
#182908
08/27/2017 2:59 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,556
junebug
Gun Slinger
|
|
Gun Slinger
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,556 |
Well done Chance. They should be cutting pine and starting on hickory now. If you can find a wild cherry that is getting ripe it can be a hot spot too.In your aerial photo's you showed some grown up fence lines, another hot spot to hunt as they always seem to have nut trees and are travel corridors.
junebug
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: junebug]
#182913
08/27/2017 7:57 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 488
Handgun400
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 488 |
Nice. Unseasonably cool weather here is giving me the itch.
My filter is broken.
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: Handgun400]
#183069
09/01/2017 11:19 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 306
BushytailBasher
enthusiast
|
|
enthusiast
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 306 |
Looking good im getting ready to take a walk out behind my place and see if I can get one low on a tree first day of squirrel season here we will see if the ok 22hornet contender can get a couple
|
|
|
|
Re: Fox squirrel this morning
[Re: BushytailBasher]
#183133
09/03/2017 7:58 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 57
358TC
journeyman
|
|
journeyman
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 57 |
|
|
|
|
|
0 registered members (),
94
guests, and 3
spiders. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
