almost forgot

[charlie cleveland]

was up at 4.00 am rechecked all my gearwas ready to go only thing was it was 2 hours to daylight.my granddaughter decided she wanted to go so told her to come on by...at 6.10 we stepped into the backyard and eased into the woods set up under a old den tree. was nt long had 3 squirls cutting acorns i tried to shoy katie where the squirls were but she took a while to spot one. she finally shot and missed i then shot and missed too...we eased on into the woods and spotted 2 more cutting beech mass but suddenly they disappeared and we had to move on..this happened several times the leaves were really dry and 2 people make enough noise that the squirls would just run in the timber..finally katie got a good shot but the gun did not fire nope it were nt a parker it was a charles daly automatic 20 ga...them low power shells we were useing just want cycle in that gun... all told we seen 12 squirls and never got to shoot but that one time each and then we missed. we then came back to the house loaded up and went were all the younger fellows had spent the night in a big river bottom...we got the squirls cleaned them other boys had killed fryed them and potatoes chicken poodle sop gravy a big pan of beans and one fellow made a big peach cobbler...i aint even hungary for supper as i ate to much squirl and gravy and of course peach cobbler... i left them boys at about 3.30and come home i then waited till 5.30 and went out and killed 3 squirls one had a wolf in it...all in all a fine day..the little 20 ga parker will kill a squirl away out there even with those 7 1/2 s..i made 2 shots at about 40 yards dead when they hit the ground..and i ll have to say it was a little lighter to tote than the 8 ga... charlie