squirrel season a few weeks away

[deerjackie]

 i hope its a cool one opening day but wont bet on it.any hickorynuts  this year? i will be on vacation next week and get a chance to check my honey hole. good luck everybody and be careful.

[tn_junk]

I was out in the woods Sunday and didn't see many hickory nuts, or for that matter, decent acorns. Did get about 100,000 chiggers on my most tender parts.
Just means that when one finds good mast, there will be more bushytales.

alan

[victorcharlie]

There seems to be plenty around here.

My brother lives south of Pulaski and his walnut trees are loaded.

It's still a little to hot for me yet.....

[LHitchcox]

It looks pretty good here around Pikeville. I haven't squirrel hunted since we had the major mast failure a couple of years back. It about wiped out the population here. They are making a strong comeback and I will be in the woods again.

I just had a realization this summer that I enjoyed small game hunting than deer hunting. It's funny how we get pulled into the big game thing, more macho I guess, but I plan to get back to squirrels and rabbits this season. I have been locating properties to hunt rabbit and squirrel on. So far squirrel properties are good, but I am not finding rabbit properties.

Leon

[Tn Jim]

Like LH, I too have realized this year that I enjoy small game more than deer. I haven't hunted squirrel or rabbit since I took my youngest son the last time when he was 14. He will be 22 tomorrow. I used to be a grouse huntin fool up in Campbell Co. Plan on going this year for the first time in 8 or 9 years. Even bought a new huntin 12 gauge for this fall. I always wait until after the first good frost of the year though. Kills the worms off. I always heard them called wolves. I've seen them in squirrels and rabbits, but not birds. Also plan on dove huntin for the first time this year. Have to go to a TWRA lease field, but thats why they are there.

[Old English]

I have loads of doves on my property so I expect it will be a good year for doves. I do not understand having a squirrel season at all, they are more numerous than chiggas in my area. Rabbits however are a different matter. What happens to the multitude of rabbits between Summer and hunting season? I see them all the time in July, especailly after rain. Come November they are rarer than hens teeth, do they migrate somewhere lese for the Winter?

[tn_junk]

I have loads of doves on my property so I expect it will be a good year for doves. I do not understand having a squirrel season at all, they are more numerous than chiggas in my area. Rabbits however are a different matter. What happens to the multitude of rabbits between Summer and hunting season? I see them all the time in July, especailly after rain. Come November they are rarer than hens teeth, do they migrate somewhere lese for the Winter?

Seen many, many dove around here also.
Was in the woods Sunday and didn't see even one squirrel or rabbit, which is unusual. Don't even have squirrels bothering my bird feeder much this year.

alan

[victorcharlie]

I have loads of doves on my property so I expect it will be a good year for doves. I do not understand having a squirrel season at all, they are more numerous than chiggas in my area. Rabbits however are a different matter. What happens to the multitude of rabbits between Summer and hunting season? I see them all the time in July, especailly after rain. Come November they are rarer than hens teeth, do they migrate somewhere lese for the Winter?

Having raised Beagles for 20 years or more, I'd agree with you about rabbits.

Loss of habitat, restrictive predator hunting laws, birds of prey, and fescue are a few reasons, fence row to fence row farming is another one.

The state doesn't seem to think there's any money in small game, and chooses to spend it's efforts on deer and turkey rather than rabbits and quail.

Talk about a loss, quail are seldom seen around here.  When I was a kid I'd walk up several coveys a day.  Now, I don't see more than a couple of coveys a season.

[tn_junk]

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Talk about a loss, quail are seldom seen around here.  When I was a kid I'd walk up several coveys a day.  Now, I don't see more than a couple of coveys a season.
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I remember hunting when I was a kid and my dad and I walking up eight or ten coveys a day.
I really miss those days. I flushed one quail last week, and it was the first one I had seen in a couple of years.

alan

[whiskey101]

One week to go!