Best time to squirrel hunt

[Hoytme2]

I have found that the best time for the woods I hunt is the morning. Them squirrel are running all over the place but by 10:00 they usually have settled down. I usually still hunt for squirrel setting up at the base of a tree and usually falling asleep

[Lunker]

Whens the season open? ive never shot a squirrel yet!! I got the perfect Rem 22 this year...:D

[CatDaddy]

September 1st. I cant wait!!

[Farmbear]

Can't wait tell season to get me a bushytail. Good luck to all be safe.;)

[rjolenic]

Anytime in the woods with a firearm during the season is great. Hoytme2 introduced me to squirrel hunting with a dog last season. It was a lot of fun! But where I live, it seems it's open season year round if you use your truck the right way! :eek:

rjo

[jcdflint]

Mornings are good ,but anytime is alright! I really like my 17 hmr.
It's a good 100 yard Squirrel gun!!!!! At that range you get a lot more shots. Heads of coarse.

[Turkeyfoot]

Although afternoons can be great also, my favorite time is early morning preferably after a good rain. I like to sneak around in full cammo with a 22mag. You can be very quiet and I'm usually checking for early rubs and other deer sign while I'm at it. Gets me in-tune for the upcoming bow season as well:D ....TF

[vvarmitr]

Took some back roads tismorning & the Reds were running all over the place. I'm taking my dog this year; this will be my first time using a dog. :cool:
Flint Dude: get your casserole dish ready cause we be eaten sum squirrel tis fall. :D

[jcdflint]

If you hunt'm a lot or you have other friend that hunt'm, save all the front legs together. When you have a mess of'm try this at a get together.

Brown up all those front legs in a skillet with olive oil and garlic. Add some of your favorite seasoning and put the hole mess in a crock pot. Add a mess of your favorite barbecue sauce and cook to tender.

Also if you want add some apple sauce, honey, molassas to give it a different taste.

O' you will all be out hunting those long tails as soon as the pots empty!!!! O" LIFE IS GOOD! Jeff

[Thunderflight]

So do you all shoot them on the ground or tree's?

TF

[jcdflint]

Tree's mostly

[Thunderflight]

I've been told that it's "un-sporting" to shoot a squirrel on the ground. Personnally I don't see anything un-sporting about it. Those lil suckers can really get around.

TF

[Hoytme2]

on the grund or from a tree, they all taste the same to me!

[Thunderflight]

And they can be just as hard to hit too.

TF

[sycamoreredneck]

HAVE ANY OF YALL HAD PROBLEMS LAST YEAR, EARLY, WITH WARBLES?? I USALY HUNT EM TILL I KILL ONE THAT HAS THEM THEN I STOP HUNTIN TILL THE FIRST FROST WITCH IS SUPPOSED TO KILL THE WARBLES. I WAS ALSO TOLD THAT YOU CAN STILL EAT THEM IF YOU CUT THEM OUT. I'LL EAT ALOT OF THINGS BUT EATIN SOMTHIN THAT HAS HAD WHAT LOOKS LIKE A MAGGOT IN IT IS PRETTY SICK!!!

[madriver223]

i have found the best time to hunt squirrel is when i am seriously hunting deer...lol i have tons of those little guys running around, i have not hunted them since i was a kid 15 yrs ago maybe. and it never fails the shot is tempting but the cost of that arrow changes my mind and i figure the best buck of my life is watching shoot at a squirrel as well. you guys have gotten me wanting to get the old marlin out for some tho.
i went hunting with my grandfather, i had just gotten my license and shot one on the ground..boy did i get hollered at. he said the same thing it wasnt sporting. well i think sitting on a limb looking at ya versus hauling arse on the ground. hes got a better i think on the ground.

MR

[CatDaddy]

I always thought the best time was in the morning.

[Caribou Dreamer2]

I like to hunt in the mornings for squirrels and evening right before dark is pretty good to.I like to find a couplr good active tress and sit at the base and watch the action

[pawclaws]

Think I'm going to move into the woods for about a week and do a walk about. Maybe shoot some of them rats and cook them over coals. Gut them, Skin them, wash them clean, split em in half length wise, season them up good maybe let them marinade in a little 7-up, lemon juice, soy sauce, ginger, peper, garlic powder, onion powder, in the cooler for a couple of hours. Then roll them or dust them in flour lightly and grill them with a bamboo skewer stuck through them. Kind of like the Vietnamese did with rat. Tast mighty good with some corn bread smothered in butter, some home grown tomatoes sliced up with maybe some cucumber salt and peppered with a little olive oil and vinegar on it and maybe some home fried taters with onions and peppers in them along side! Anybody round Salt Fork or WolF creek sometime in the next three or so weeks and smell that; that'll be me!!:D