not too many posts here so i figured i'd get the ball rollin'. does anyone else here hunt squirrels? any tips or stories?

I could shoot all the tree rats I wanted in my deer stand ;) Cant say I hunt them but they sure do eat up alot of my film in the deer video unit so maybe I should start .

i hunt them and sell the skin people in my school dont have anything better to do so they buy them the tast good

You sell 'em. cool, how much do you usually get for them. of course, with the amount of squirrels i get, i wouldn't make much.

i usaly sell them to people i know and get like 25$ per pellt works good when i sell 25-50 pellts to friends a year

awesome! hmmm...lets see. 25$ a pelt, 2 squirrels a season, thats 50$. yeah, i think if i want to make money i better go out more often. squirrle season here is i think a couple months but i only get out 3 or 4 times the whole season. unfortunate 'cause i really love it.

I've hunted for squirrels before. Never got lucky tho. Haven't harvested one yet........one day.......

when hunting Deer and Elk here in the west, I carry 2 blunts in my quiver. I am an arrow flinging fool!

Jeff,

I have to admit I have never been smart enough to carry a blunt, But have wasted more than my share of broadheads on those TreeRats before...

I always wanted to do a Log Mount of all the differant squirells from my area.
Blacks,Red,Fox and a Pine... One of these days..

TREE RATS-aka-Squirrel are fun to hunt with a 22 rifle and when you take head shots only it makes it really a challenge. Add using some Eley subsonic low velocity hollow points and they never know what it was that hit em!

I have had greys in a tree cuttin before and as long as you shoot the lowest one 1st most of the time you can get multiples out of the same tree. It is funny sometimes if you pay attention after you shoot and watch the ones still in the tree they look down at their buddy like "hey stupid I told you not to drink so much last night, now you done lost your balance and fell".

I really like those guys that wanna run down the side of the tree and laugh at their buddy

i actualy used one of those traps from the field and strem mags the survial traps and got 5 squarils lol luck prob but sold them to one of my friends 1004 gave him a special lol no holes i am going to try this more

We have tons of them down here, I'm with Elk-a I can't resist a shot oppertunity.

Any Game that wanders into the xx killbox will get a lethal injection
Easton venom.

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I was sitting in the bow stand last year and a father and son came through the woods squirrel hunting with their 22's. Talk about a nervous few moments for me. They didn't even know I was there. I had to whistle out to them so I wouldn't get shot.

Like OBH, I've donated a couple broadheads trying to pick a tree rat off a tree.

does anyone here hunt squirrell?

[QUOTE]i'd like to get some tips for squirrell hunting. can anyone help a fellow out.

Ya I hunt squirrels they are really fun to hunt All i do is find where alot of pine cones are and alot of acorns and i set beside a tree around 6:00 or 7:00 in the morn or around 3:00 in the afternoon that is times you will see them I killed around 20 last year not bad but ok......so if you need any questions on squirrel hunting be sure to ask me I can tell you or some of these other hunters in here might can if i cant answer your question.



hunter

if you dont mind i could use a few tips.

I hunt em here I have a nice fox squirrel on my wall that I took from our deer lease in South Georgia

I hunt them. Heres what you do... Go scout first. Find a spot where the squirrels are daily ( ex. Around oak trees, corn fields ect.) Watch and see what time they start comming out at. When you have them patterned, get to the spot you think you will have a shot from, an hour before they should appear. Get settled and get ready. You should bag 2 or more that day.

if you have no food sources around, i found that shelled corn works like a charm with squirrels..just take some out in the woods, make a pile and keep baiting throughout the year and they will get used to it being there...they are easy to pattern and not very quiet critters. If you want a challenge, take a bow with you. Thatll make a good shot out of you Have fun

p.s. Id check your local game laws and check to see how many you are allowed to bag each day because its easy to get carried away sometimes