well i was up at 4.30 sharp had been awake since 2.30 i m still like i was in my youth dont get much sleep on opening day of squirl or deer...i put 2 big biscuits in the oven fried 3 big strips of bacon and put the coffee on..in 15 minutes i was ready to eathad a guilty complex and put 1 of the biscuits and 1 and 1/2 pieces of the bacon under a lid for the wife..been trying to cut down on eating with not much luck...well got the gun shells and flashlight and loaded them in the truck and off to the woods i went..got out of the truckand said to myself its gona be 30 minutes till daylight..i enjoyed the peacefullness of the dawn soon it was light i got the 3 frame out of the truck and loaded her up with them no 5 s...as i started slipping along i thought i should have wore a light jacket this morning but after seeing the first squirl all thoughts of being cool was gone...this squirl was really barking at something i knew it was not me...some crows flew in to check the squirl out it was tempting to try the gun on the crow..finally i saw the squirl move i was about to get a bead on him when from nowhere a small airplane comes tree top level.well thet squirl was outa there and high tailing it ..never saw this squirl again..... i walked on and finally seen a limb shaking took a few steps to see better and there he was cutting some acoirns i raised the old parker up and down came the old guns first squirl of the morning...as i picked up the squirl i saw another squirl i shot but missed but the left barrel got the secound squirl..i walked and slipped for about 30 minutes again before i came up on another squirl this old fellow was really shaking a limb when i dropped him out....this squirl had a bug in him we call a wolf so i let him lay were he had fell...at about 9.30 i saw the last and final squirl of the morning it was at least a 60 yard shot i took the shot and i said to myself missed that one well i reloade the gun and was watching to see if maybe i would see him again about that time that squirl fell outa that tree i was really surprized...well it was a mile walk back to the truck but it was still cool so it was a good walk i thought i mite run across another squirl but i did not so for the total it was 4 squirls 2 good ones and 2 bad ones with wolves in them..after arriving home i went and sharpened my knife and was gona skin them to squirls them things were so old and tough i let my dogs have them...did not go back this evening hunting it was just to hot it was 88 abou 2.00 pm..even thou the old parker weighs in at 10 lbs it handled very well and never wore me out...charlie
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