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Unread 10-02-2018, 06:56 AM   #21
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i got mixed up on my squirl season opening for several years it always opened on a saturday be it the last saturday in september most of the time...guess what it opened today yes on a monday...i had to be in memphis tenn..to the v a hospital for a routine checkup so the old 8 ga sets unfired at the moment i think us squirl hunters need to have a talk with them fellows that set the seasons openings....on top of my other dutys my daughter ask me to help her this weekend....maybe i can get in some hunting time in the afternoons this week bow season has started have helped cole my grandson with feeders and tommorrow got to fill them up again....oh well....charlie
Charlie,

It sounds like you need to retire! Life's not good without that "hunting time," so when you do get that 8 out for a spin through the squirrel woods, let us know.

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Vermont is also subject to the squirrel invasion big time this year, both reds and grays. Since early spring at my house we have had hundreds and they keep coming. They get into structures and tear insulation and Im concerned about their propensity to chew wires.
Weapon of choice is a Hi Standard pistol, mostly a 22 short sub sonic. Usually pop a few each day and there are more the next day.
Papers report a bumper food crop in certain areas for past two years has led to a boom in population that now pressures the food supply, so they are moving everywhere to find eats. This is the year for bears and rodents. A friends kids counted 200 squirrels on an I-91 trip to Mass the other day.

I must say Im getting plenty of practice and am pretty happy with my pistol shooting in all this.
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Unread 10-02-2018, 09:34 PM   #23
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maybe some of them squirls will migrate down my way.keep you from wearing your pistol out....ha squirls are great wire knawers dont blame you for trying to keep them out of the house...i hope to take a few with the old 8 ga before long......charlie
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I was twenty five miles from home one night at a Gander Mountain. Ready to pull onto major highway and car cut off. Would not crank. Wrecker came to get car and said he smelled gas. Don't know how it made it that far. Squirrels had chewed through the rubber gas line.
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Double glove while cleaning, and skip the brains
https://www.foxnews.com/health/man-d...quirrel-brains
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Beat me to it Drew. I just read about this incident on the Daily Mail. What a shocker.
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The old timers would take the handle of the table knife and bust their heads open to eat the brains. I never was that hungry though.
Based on the above, I'm glad I never acquired the taste for squirrel brains!
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jerry i with you no squirl brains for me too....charlie
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just saw this. Squirrel can be real good eating. But.....
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...Kf91inTDbSoVyn
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When I was a kid growing up in central Illinois one of the favorite squirrel hunting guns was a Savage Model 24; .22 over a 410. I used a Westernfield copy of the Winchester 67 single shot. I still take it to the range couple times a year, it now has a Lyman Alaskan and still is extremely accurate.
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