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My squirrel story: used to live on a 1,200 acre cattle ranch that little by little became inundated with ground squirrels. Had my grandfathers octagon barrel pump action .22 rifle with iron sights. It was usually windy in the afternoons. Was firing at a squirrel on the side of a hill that was well over 100 yards away. He was not scared back in his hole because the wind direction was not sending the report of the rifle in his/her direction. The squirrel just kept running around on the hill, and I kept firing, reloading, firing some more. Had to aim quite a bit to the left to compensate for the wind. Finally, I heard a "thud" after one of my shots. Walked up the hill and searched all the squirrel holes until I found a dead guy a few inches down in one of the burrows. Only took about 98 rounds of .22 long rifle before I hit him. P.S. An almost opposite story: I once hit two small squirrels with one .22 round, one was looking over the shoulder of the other one, on the side of a hill outside their burrow. Only managed that once.
 
Another quick squirrel story for me.... I was grouse hunting and spent the day walking the woods. Well not a single grouse was shot and I was really wanting to shoot something. I finally saw a squirrel sitting on a branch about 5' up in a pine tree. It was also about 20' away. So I pulled up, took aim and shot.. The squirrel didnt move, I was thinking how the hell did I miss that with bird shot. So I started walking closer to the squirrel and it wasnt until I was about 6-7' way from it I could see I blew the top of its head clean off. The shot made the squirrel clench down on the tree and I had to pry it off the branch... I never seen anything like that before...
 
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straightlinespeed said:
Another quick squirrel story for me.... I was grouse hunting and spent the day walking the woods. Well not a single grouse was shot and I was really wanting to shoot something. I finally saw a squirrel sitting on a branch about 5' up in a pine tree. It was also about 20' away. So I pulled up, took aim and shot.. The squirrel didnt move, I was thinking how the hell did I miss that with bird shot. So I started walking closer to the squirrel and it wasnt until I was about 6-7' way from it I could see I blew the top of its head clean off. The shot made the squirrel clench down on the tree and I had to pry it off the branch... I never seen anything like that before...
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Oh dang!
 
straightlinespeed said:
Another quick squirrel story for me.... I was grouse hunting and spent the day walking the woods. Well not a single grouse was shot and I was really wanting to shoot something. I finally saw a squirrel sitting on a branch about 5' up in a pine tree. It was also about 20' away. So I pulled up, took aim and shot.. The squirrel didnt move, I was thinking how the hell did I miss that with bird shot. So I started walking closer to the squirrel and it wasnt until I was about 6-7' way from it I could see I blew the top of its head clean off. The shot made the squirrel clench down on the tree and I had to pry it off the branch... I never seen anything like that before...
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I think I saw that movie. :thumbsup:
 
Me and a buddy in High School used to box trap squirrels all over the county and then snuff them and sell the tails to a fly-tying company and the meat to the poor folks down in the city. Once in a while, we would get a black squirrel in the trap. For giggles, we decided to release the black squirrels on the local country club golf course. After a few years of doing this (plus trapping the grey squirrels off the course), the entire population of squirrels at the country club were black and began to spread beyond there into the surrounding neighborhoods.

To this day, the District Conservation office has never figured out why there is a widespread population of black squirrels in this part of the county.
 
Ddaddy said:
Me and a buddy in High School used to box trap squirrels all over the county and then snuff them and sell the tails to a fly-tying company and the meat to the poor folks down in the city. Once in a while, we would get a black squirrel in the trap. For giggles, we decided to release the black squirrels on the local country club golf course. After a few years of doing this (plus trapping the grey squirrels off the course), the entire population of squirrels at the country club were black and began to spread beyond there into the surrounding neighborhoods.

To this day, the District Conservation office has never figured out why there is a widespread population of black squirrels in this part of the county.
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I try to get the black squirrels to my house... I enjoy watching them
 
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