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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Rastus on August 03, 2019, 07:24:58 AM
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How many of you guys like to squirrel hunt....or used to like to squirrel hunt? I can't wait for the cool mornings to come so I can bag a few. It's been a few years for me, but I think I can remember how to do it!
In Arkansas the daily bag limit is 12 with 48 in possession. Hopefully the daily limit is a bit light for the area of the Ozarks I'm going to be in....
Also maybe pick up a rabbit or two while I'm out. A few doves in the afternoon....
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Used to love it, and with the abundance in our neighborhood, gonna try it again this fall.
Can't wait for some stew!
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We usually had a jambalaya. Some people scrambled eggs with the brains....not me...but the old folks seemed to love it.
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We usually had a jambalaya. Some people scrambled eggs with the brains....not me...but the old folks seemed to love it.
Drooling now!
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Florida squirrels are of the sub-standard, meatless variety. You'd need to eat a dozen just to get something caught in your teeth. Now, Louisiana squirrels... Those will make a meal.
Crusader Rabbit
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I've seen a few squirrels around the place but it's gotta be filthy with them with all the mature oak and hickory trees. A smattering of pine here and there and I think I'll get some meat for the pot. When it gets cold enough to slow down the copperheads, then out I'll give it a go.
Back home in Louisiana no one hunts squirrels anymore. They are everywhere. I figure as remote as the retreat is in Arkansas it can only be better.
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...Back home in Louisiana no one hunts squirrels anymore. They are everywhere...
I'm old and my knowledge of Louisiana squirrel hunting is based on memories, not current facts. But those squirrels were meal makers, back in the day...
Crusader Rabbit
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Having pecan trees means "sqwulls is da enemy" and get shot on sight.....if'n you can see 'em...they're sneaky and hide well up in the trees....gotta have much patience.
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They are still fat and sassy down there. I'm never back home during season enough to do more than try to clear my mom's yard of a couple.
No doubt Peg. There are lots of hickory nut and white oak around the place in Arkansas. There are some old pecan and I think walnut on the place too. I am going to zero some of those buggers out with the 17 HMR. I like to wait until its cold a couple of weeks but maybe I do need to protect that pecan crop.
Adder: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lost+Corner,+AR+72080/@35.5522053,-92.8647998,7315m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87cdc0e1387d786d:0x1915b3532a93ea9c!8m2!3d35.5717459!4d-92.8340563 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lost+Corner,+AR+72080/@35.5522053,-92.8647998,7315m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87cdc0e1387d786d:0x1915b3532a93ea9c!8m2!3d35.5717459!4d-92.8340563)
Just FYI...there's a bunch of woods around the retreat. The nearest road in is 8 miles of dirt through national forest. To my west is more than a forest, it's a designated wilderness, East Fork Wilderness of 10-1/2 thousand acres. No motorized vehicles, no timber sales, no prescribed burning...just the woods.
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Me! They are great eating. I think I killed more with a pellet rifle then I did with my shot gun.
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For some reason Tab I see you living in an arid environment without trees....which I am sure is wrong at least in part. Where did you do your squirrel slaying?
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For some reason Tab I see you living in an arid environment without trees....which I am sure is wrong at least in part. Where did you do your squirrel slaying?
Lots in the foot hills up east of Sacramento. Tons of very large oak trees and 1000' higher in elevation pines. More squirrels then you could ever imagine
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Haven't in years, but I'm going to take it up again. Yep good eatin for sure.
Good luck gettin ya some bushy tail rascals. ;)
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If I ever get out of Wyoming long enough to get home I'm planning on getting a mess of squirrels for a jambalaya. Looking like around October 1 before I get out of here.
I was thinking about heading down through Cheyenne, Ft. Collins, Denver then I went DENVER, hell no.
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What are you doing in Montana? A little more of an answer than "work" is requested.
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Putting 30 million pounds of one hundred mesh sand and 650,000 bbls (27 million gallons) of water into the ground with 40-50 thousand horsepower at 90- 100 bbls per minute and 11,300 psig.
If rig rig gets off the next well within a week I may be here until after mid-October....which would be better than going home for 6-10 days and then back out. There are several consultants who haven't worked for us before so there is always the transmittal of "how we do things" compared to other people that takes a bit before they clearly understand our intentions and instructions...."how we do things".
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I see, you are one of those evil men that is destroying our planet ;)
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Not only that I have EBR's. And not only EBR's I have a Spike's Tactical Crusader too!!!