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Offline ELMO

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"Almost Squirrel Time"
« on: July 21, 2010, 04:39:25 AM »
   Well fellow Hoosiers it about that time to get after them tasty little squirrels, less than a month away till season opens. It is always fun to get out in the woods even though it is so hot and the bugs are after you. I'll probably use one of my several .22 caliber firearms or my tack driving .17HMR rifle to do the critters in. Another thing I use the squirrel hunting time to also scout for deer....I have found a different way to prepare squirrel, and that is to pressure cook it, pull the meat from the bone, then make a great BBQ sandwich out of it and the wife likes it too!!!  
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2010, 04:48:26 AM »
Yep, I'll be out there. One of my favorite things to do. I get a big roasting pan and bake'em up with whole potatoes, carrots, and onions. Got a new CZ .22 lr sighted at 25 yards with some subsonic ammo. Need to scout a little bit.
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2010, 05:27:22 PM »
I remember the days BTA (before the Army), I would spend a fair amount of time in the woods chasing squirrels after work. Nowadays they station me in a state that has more corn fields than woods. :-\ I promised someone I would take a child hunting and therefore my nephew and I will get out there at least once and maybe a few times. He still talks about the last year we went. He's all  ;D ;D when I tell him that it's that time again.

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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2010, 05:34:47 PM »
I can't wait. to cook them I like to soak em in buttermilk over night then fry em like that and fry them with garlic salt and pepper is great too
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2010, 11:25:26 AM »
August 15Th! August 15th! August 15th! All right already...lol...the squirrels keep chanting at me each time I step outside my front porch. Just teasing me! Well, I live in a "woods" and they harrass me all the time! I got the old Steven Model 15 sighted in, and the Belgium Browning SA-22 sighted in......both dead nuts on the squirrels in my nut trees. Both of these .22's were handed down to me from my Daddy who passed away on opening day of squirrel season 4 years ago. He used the Belgium Browning and I would use his Stevens Model 15. I installed scope bases on the Stevens; that thing drives tacks at 50 yards! My father bought the Stevens in 1937 by picking cotton for 50 cents a week in and around Searcy, Arkansas. It's shot more squirrel, raccoon, oppossum and rabbit than any gun I will ever own. I am 54 years of age.

I have other more modern .22's, but these two are the best shooting than what I have in my gunsafe.

COME ON SQUIRRELS!
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2010, 12:56:19 PM »
I just picked up a Mossburg .17HMR at the last Indy gun show.  That would work great but I don`t eat Sqs....
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2010, 07:19:42 PM »
Anyone shoot any squirrels yet? How are the mosquitoes this year, just as big as the squirrels??


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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2010, 04:30:58 PM »
Took the kids out after work, should have only taken one at a time, but any way. Got one with the 22 Hornet just at 75yds took the top of the head clean off just leavin the lower jaw kids didn't want any part of that, then mom got home with the call to dinner. The woods was then quiet...
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2010, 09:52:44 PM »
Hey Guys havnt got out yet.  What are they cuttin on?
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2010, 02:52:36 AM »
Quote from: Nightsniper on August 19, 2010, 09:52:44 PM
Hey Guys havnt got out yet.  What are they cuttin on?
still waiting on season just wait til the first and you can find me in the woods.
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Re: "Almost Squirrel Time"
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2010, 03:33:15 PM »
Around here they are cuttin on acorns most are on the ground and head for the tree (any one) when ya go walkin up on them, keep your eyes open.
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