How many of you still hunt squirrels? When I lived in Southern Illinois as a kid and went squirrel hunting I was lucky to even see a couple. Here in the Missouri Ozarks where I live now I have to kick them out of the way to get to my car and I have installed a ‘now serving number….” next to my bird feeder. It seems very few people even bother with them around here any more. They are really the only small game available any more because of the changes in land use. Rabbit and quail habitat is almost nonexistent. It is a shame that today’s kids do not have these game species to cut their teeth on. Around here the first animal they shoot is probably a deer.I enjoy hunting squirrels and they are probably my favorite wild game. You can’t beat fried squirrel and gravy. My problem is that as a kid I never killed enough of them to learn how to effectively skin them with the result that when I have them skinned they probably have more hair on them then before the skinning. It is only fair that I get a few of them after all they ate all the apples off my tree, plus the walnuts, various garden vegetables and of course emptied the bird feeder. I usually confine my hunting to the colder months, as during the summer the woods are full of copperheads and ticks. Of the two I prefer the copperheads as they usually go out of their way not to bite you.
RJ
