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Early season bushytails. Anyone going?

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#1 ·
Season opener is very close now. Like most early season starts it seems to just get hotter the closer the date gets. 90 degree temps next week in the forecast. A lot can change but if next week's temps continue or in the 80s I won't be found near a woods. I get very geared up for hunting but the heat usually prevails for my early season until a cold front.....anyone else excited though?
 
#2 ·
too hot! what did it for me was a squirrel hunt with a couple of buddies in mid September i shot one and it had warblers on it. i about threw up and left it for the coyotes. now i wont shoot anything except deer before the first frost and even then its a little leary.
 
#6 ·
Last year this time they were tearing up my red oaks.( bi year maybe)Not so much this year. I've been watching one sit in hickory tree and chow down the last few evenings.

Last year I had pictures of over 20 at one time on my trail camera so something needs done.

Usually I just let the kids hunt them... Sorta funny when I hear from them and their dads just arnt no squirrels.

Nothing worse than trying to bow hunt with squirrels all over the place. I'll probably take my boxer dog with me a few times this year. She gets really excited tho and whines. Sorta fun to watch her.
 
#7 ·
I'm very excited about squirrel season. And I usually get the bug to go out early. But I must admit, I'm not so enthusiastic about going out in 85+ degree temps and being eaten alive by mosquitoes. And if I want to fight off the mosquitoes, I need to douse myself with tons of bug repellent. Not thrilled about that either.

Maybe this year I'll wait for one good frost.

I sure do like to go out when the leaves start turning. Maybe I can get the grandson more interested in it this year.

I don't deer hunt, but I've read if you want to be surrounded by squirrels....go deer hunting!
 
#10 ·
I have a young hunter who's more interested in the Dove / Early Goose opener then squirrels so I'll be doing either one of those.
 
#16 ·
I'm pumped for hunting. Although I'm not going into jungle like mosquito infested hell holes for squirrels. I did purchase a thermocell for more early season hunts this year. I'm more excited for dove fields. I'm going to take my kids to use as my dogs and I might take an old dog for fun as well. peanuts and juice boxes I'm sure will be along to keep young ones comefortable. If the action is extremely slow I'd bet an ipad will come too. I'm very much looking forward to it. If I owned an Erie boat again I wouldn't think of hunting on weekends until rut.
 
#21 ·
Although today was a cool down from what it's been and there was a breeze.....I went into the woods to retrieve a ground blind that was left from last season which my brother in law said I could have last night. It was pleasant. I wasn't sitting waiting on a squirrel but if the thermacell works as advertised on here I'm game.
 
#22 ·
Cool/Mild Forecast for next 10 days!!!! Good cool morning on the opener!

DESCRIPTION
HIGH / LOW PRECIP WIND HUMIDITY
TODAY

AUG 23 Mostly Sunny
73°49°
10%
WNW 10 mph 51%
THU

AUG 24 Mostly Sunny
70°49°
10%
NNW 9 mph 67%
FRI

AUG 25 Mostly Sunny
70°49°
10%
NNE 7 mph 69%
SAT

AUG 26 Sunny
73°51°
0%
NE 10 mph 62%
SUN

AUG 27 Sunny
76°57°
10%
ENE 9 mph 59%
MON

AUG 28 Partly Cloudy
77°58°
20%
SE 10 mph 68%
TUE

AUG 29 PM Showers
74°57°
40%
SE 10 mph 67%
WED

AUG 30 Partly Cloudy
76°57°
20%
SSW 7 mph 73%
THU

AUG 31 Partly Cloudy
72°55°
10%
NW 7 mph 74%
FRI

SEP 1 Partly Cloudy
74°55°
10%
N 7 mph 65%
SAT

SEP 2 Mostly Sunny
75°55°
20%
SW 5 mph 66%
SUN

SEP 3 Mostly Sunny
76°56°
20%
SW 6 mph 71%
MON

SEP 4 Mostly Sunny
76°57°
20%
SW 7 mph 71%
TUE

SEP 5 Isolated Thunderstorms
76°58°
30%
SW 8 mph 72%
WED

SEP 6 AM Thunderstorms
75°55°
40%
SW 8 mph 74%
 
#23 ·
I went looking for mushrooms at lunchtime today. I hosed myself down with bug spray. Yesterday's rain must have fired the bugs up. I wasn't bitten but it was extremely unpleasant just walking in the woods getting swarmed and it's low 70s. I'm sticking to the open fields for doves early in a breeze and away from malaria. I did hear fear of an early frost on a farm report!
 
#24 ·
I sighted in the .17 today & both of us are ready. I was sitting outside watching the eclipse Monday & the sweat bees were terrible. I can't remember the last time they were that bad.
 
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