How to "REALLY" squirrel hunt??? HELP!

tresmon

tresmon

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Hi guys.

Squirrel season is a few weeks away. I'm gong to try to take it more serious this season- the new wife & I have swore off commercial meat for health reasons, so it has put my/our hunting into a whole new light for me. I LOVE meat!

So in years gone by, I simply spent lazy days half concious with a .22 in a dreamy state sitting in the woods. I would take a shot at whatever random squirrel came by..

Not this year, this year I hope to get my limit each outing, now how do you advise I do that?.,,,, I seriously don't know how to embark on a "real" squirrel hunt. Prior to this year I never really took it serious...
 
Look for a den tree, one with hollows. Then set up within range early in the morning or late in the afternoon. In the fall set up near hickory trees. Squirrels love hickory nuts.
Good luck.
 
The only way I've ever had success was to find a comfortable tree to lean against where the hardwood trees (Oak,Pecan,or Hickory) are abundant and sit very quietly for about 10 minutes at each stand.... Always got all I wanted. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

Or,, you can come to my back deck and get all you want... I have a small acre with 45 hardwood trees and probably 50+ squirrels at any given day when the weather is decent.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Incidently, our little subdivision is called Hickory Grove and it's where I used to hunt as a kid... Just outside the city limits (still) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
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Depending on where you live in east TN you could kill four or five fox squirrels and it would be like ten grays. I always hunt them in the fall and have luck around everything from black gums, to oaks. I don't know in the spring but a few squirrels behind my house looked to be eating buds off the trees the other day. A den tree sounds like a good start.
 
Camo!! Face mask & all if the woods are open. If you're serious then gear up proper. You'll want a hat with a long bill for the sun & a pair of small,, I use 4x compact,, binos for checking those bumps out on a limb.

And most of all,,,, JUST HAVE FUN!!
 
the best way to hunt squirrels is out of a tree stand. Try it you will like it....shot alot of them from a tree stand.

use good cammo and set still and they will be all around you and they wont even know you are there...


If you have a portalable one even better then you can move around. I shot most of mine on the ground under the tree stand or with in 25-40 yds of the tree stand...good luck....came across this while bow hunting.......stump
 
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If you go out wearing blaze orange and rattle some antlers, they'll run all over you. Happens every time I go deer hunting. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Wear some camo. This time of year they're eating buds off of maple, poplar and other trees. Once the leaves are on the trees, they eat the stems that hold the leaves. Be setting in the woods at daylight. I like a .22 with a scope to use on them. After you shoot, the .22 dosen't scare them as bad as a shotgun blast and they'll start moving around again quicker. Pay attention to what direction they come from at daylight, and after a couple trips to the same area you'll find their den tree. When you do, that's the place to sit. Good luck. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I like occassional squirrel meat but to be honest a steady diet of it isn't practical. If you want good meat go to a good family farm and purchase a hog and steer directly from them and take them to the slaughter house, or hire the farmer to, and get the freshest, tastiest and most healthy domestic meat there is. The butcher can even custom cut it to remove the excess lard and tallow. And when you buy it in bulk you will pay an incredible amount less for it than what is found wrapped in celiphane on the grocery shelf.
Then next fall shoot a few more deer!
 
the way i did it late last year... it was probibly around november, but listen for them to bark, then go to where you heard it. Sit for a couple of minutes if you dont see them, and listen again..
but that is how i did it... it probibly isn't real hunting of the squirrels.
drew
 
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If you go out wearing blaze orange and rattle some antlers, they'll run all over you. Happens every time I go deer hunting. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif




LMAO.....truer words have never been spoken /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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Depending on where you live in east TN you could kill four or five fox squirrels and it would be like ten grays.



I haven't seen a fox squirrel in this area in YEARS. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Care to point me and the youngster in the right direction? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Hidalgo I had thought fox squirrels were all but extinct around here until here recently. A couple of the farms that me and my partner have permission to hunt are eat up with em. Can't wait until spring squirrel season so we can bust a few of em.
 
You are in the area of the state that have some of the best squirrel dog breeders in the country. When you hunt sq. in the spring I would hope for a rain the night before and just go after them in a stalk mode. Watch the treetops and you will see them jump from limb to limb. Just sneak up to where they are. Use a shotgun this time of year. I would use heavy load #6. This way the shot usually will go all the way thru the sq. and wife will not bite down on some shot. The light loads usually will not go all the way thru. In the fall and I mean when the leaves are gone you will get more with a nice sq dog. When leaves are on the sq like to run thru the trees and are hard to kill. When the leaves are off they will stay put. Its the only way they can hide from the Hawks. The Hawk are there number one predator. Hope this helps. Rick
 
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I like occassional squirrel meat but to be honest a steady diet of it isn't practical. If you want good meat go to a good family farm and purchase a hog and steer directly from them and take them to the slaughter house, or hire the farmer to, and get the freshest, tastiest and most healthy domestic meat there is. The butcher can even custom cut it to remove the excess lard and tallow. And when you buy it in bulk you will pay an incredible amount less for it than what is found wrapped in celiphane on the grocery shelf.
Then next fall shoot a few more deer!


I totally agree here
Unless your new wife likes the squirrel meat that would be the way I would do it
The best way that I havent heard here from anyone is to do like my native ancestors did many years before the onslaght of subdivisions is to go to the local hardwoods and find a spot with alot of oaks and jump up and down (seems the faster the better)spin around (countercolock wise)and chant bulabula nomoho while you are still spinning from your counterclock wise rotation
Seems to work
squirrels love nuts
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