BilletHead Posted August 26 Posted August 26 51 degrees when I pulled out the driveway to a patch of walnut trees on a neighbor's farm. There is a picnic table there with scattered walnut trees around. As the sun came up the squirrel began to move. I found out quickly they were only going to one specific tree to grab a walnut and take off back to bigger timber to start cutting that hard shell. A sound once you hear it you never forget that sound. From that table I would key in on that sound and begin to stalk and find out where it was coming from. Thick enough underbrush I was kinda noisy. Sometimes my quarry would stay still cutting that nut and sometimes he or she would move off trying to hide again. I seen five and got four. Quite morning you could hear things in the distance for miles . I rate this a high quality morning. You could even see you breath while exhaling. Blessing for the month of August. Have I told you how much I like to hunt squirrel with the air rifle? More Pictures of the meal prep on what's cooking. Ryan Miloshewski, Ham, fishinwrench and 3 others 6 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
jdmidwest Posted August 27 Posted August 27 Looks good. I have a new under lever Umarex 22 sitting around that needs to be sited in. Spring air, but solid barrel to breech. Supposed to be accurate. I still like a .22 lr for the tree rats, but I have killed them with the pellets when I was too young for powder rifles. https://www.umarexusa.com/umarex-synergis-elite-22-2251514 Daryk Campbell Sr and BilletHead 2 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
fishinwrench Posted August 27 Posted August 27 2 hours ago, BilletHead said: Have I told you how much I like to hunt squirrel with the air rifle? There's just something about hearing that pellet hit your meal....."WHAP !" And then all the other critters in the area are like.... "Look at that idiot falling out of the tree for no reason" 😅 Daryk Campbell Sr, nomolites and BilletHead 1 2
BilletHead Posted August 27 Author Posted August 27 Just now, fishinwrench said: There's just something about hearing that pellet hit your meal....."WHAP !" And then all the other critters in the area are like.... "Look at that idiot falling out of the tree for no reason" 😅 My projectile goes KerWhop! 🤣 fishinwrench, Johnsfolly and nomolites 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted August 27 Author Posted August 27 11 hours ago, jdmidwest said: Looks good. I have a new under lever Umarex 22 sitting around that needs to be sited in. Spring air, but solid barrel to breech. Supposed to be accurate. I still like a .22 lr for the tree rats, but I have killed them with the pellets when I was too young for powder rifles. https://www.umarexusa.com/umarex-synergis-elite-22-2251514 Let us know how it works out. I have tried springers and not had much luck with real accuracy. Yours might be a better one. A good scope is a must. Springers are hard on scopes. .22 firearm is the gold standard when it comes to squirrel I know but don't underestimate the power of a PCP air rifle. Accuracy with a fine-tuned one is off the charts. Plus, so quiet. Slugs with a barrel made for shooting them are even better than pellets. Johnsfolly and fishinwrench 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Ryan Miloshewski Posted August 27 Posted August 27 Nice! Love squirrel hunting and eating them. I'm going to do this, this Saturday. Break out the old Marlin .22 Johnsfolly and BilletHead 2 “To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”--Aldo Leopold
Johnsfolly Posted August 27 Posted August 27 Our season doesn't start until Sept 2nd for squirrel and you can only hunt on sunday in a couple of counties. We do have two subspecies of fox squirrel out this way. The Delmarva fox squirrel is off limits. They look like big light gray plush toy squirrels. The northern fox squirrel is fair game and a different subspecies than the eastern Fox squirrel in MO and I may try and get one or more this year. I hunted big fox squirrels in MO during the first few seasons and cooked them for hours to soften them up. Now I prefer to only shoot the juvenile fox and grays. BilletHead 1
BilletHead Posted August 27 Author Posted August 27 1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said: Our season doesn't start until Sept 2nd for squirrel and you can only hunt on sunday in a couple of counties. We do have two subspecies of fox squirrel out this way. The Delmarva fox squirrel is off limits. They look like big light gray plush toy squirrels. The northern fox squirrel is fair game and a different subspecies than the eastern Fox squirrel in MO and I may try and get one or more this year. I hunted big fox squirrels in MO during the first few seasons and cooked them for hours to soften them up. Now I prefer to only shoot the juvenile fox and grays. Two of these squirrels were old. Old Grays can be as tough or tougher than fox. A big baller and a old female that had had many litters. About 2.5 hours and these fell off the bone. Braising actually makes them go quickly at the simmer. If you are just frying like you said the younger the better! Johnsfolly 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Johnsfolly Posted August 27 Posted August 27 2 hours ago, BilletHead said: Two of these squirrels were old. Old Grays can be as tough or tougher than fox. A big baller and a old female that had had many litters. About 2.5 hours and these fell off the bone. Braising actually makes them go quickly at the simmer. If you are just frying like you said the younger the better! Love the Braise😉. BilletHead 1
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