Who’s Still Squirrel Hunting

[Displaced_Vol]

I really wanted to get out more this fall but have only managed 2 trips since dove season slowed down. First one was a total bust, gale force winds all day but I did find a good stand of hickories that had been cut all to pieces. Second trip I saw a couple, looks like they were running on the ground and ran up trees briefly before back to the ground. Never got a shot on either before I had to head back.
I've got this new CZ and scope dialed in pretty well and I am loving the simplicity of just getting out without a lot of unnecessary junk and enjoying the fall woods.
Anybody still chasing squirrels and where should I be looking as we get later into fall?

 

[bigjohn]

I'll hunt from now to season end. Almost every stand of hardwoods will have squirrels. They seem to still be hitting the hickory trees pretty hard.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

This time of the year, I'm bowhunting every chance I can get. But, I always take notice of the squirrel activity. They are hitting the acorns hard right now. We've got very few oak trees that produced around where I hunt, but the ones that did are covered up in squirrels. They're also still hitting the walnut trees.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

Talk about conflicting information.

I guess you'll find them where they are in your woods.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Hahah no doubt. I really wished it hadn't been so windy when I found all those hickories. It was a massacre of husks all over the ground. I tried to go back to that same area on trip # 2 but there was a truck in the parking lot. I didn't figure they were headed that direction given where I've seen hunters in the past and the layout of the tract, but I still didn't want to come in on somebody so I decided to try a new spot.
Maybe get out again this weekend or next.

 

[Popcorn]

I havent even started yet. I see a lot of winter strolls starting about Christmas week

 

[Smo]

 

[Buzzard Breath]

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Tell us a little about that gun. Looks like open sights. Congrats and good shooting.

 

[Smo]

The gun is a Remington Model 33 it belonged too my Dad.
I've killed squirrels with it myself for close too 60 years..
Single shot , bolt action.. It prefers .22 longs over shorts or LR…
It does have open sights, the rear is a small vee notch and the front is a bead…

20 - 30 yards it's pretty consistent… when I do my part.

Another casualty from another day…

 

[Displaced_Vol]

The gun is a Remington Model 33 it belonged too my Dad.
I've killed squirrels with it myself for close too 60 years..
Single shot , bolt action.. It prefers .22 longs over shorts or LR…
It does have open sights, the rear is a small vee notch and the front is a bead…

20 - 30 yards it's pretty consistent… when I do my part.

Another casualty from another day…

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That's awesome

 

[cruff10]

I ran dogs at chuck swan today. Treed 3 Dens and make one kill. It was bad dry. No other hunters. Ran into a hiker said he had been hiking. 5 Miles seen 1 squirrel. They didn't stir today

 

[Displaced_Vol]

I made it out for an hour Friday afternoon. Ended up being windier than expected & predicted. Saw 1 way far away and one ran across the road as I was leaving.

 

[KPH]

I wish I could go. Had one behind the house yesterday going down a metal fence in the high wind and ran it was fun watching him hang on.

 

[opportunistic]

I really wanted to get out more this fall but have only managed 2 trips since dove season slowed down. First one was a total bust, gale force winds all day but I did find a good stand of hickories that had been cut all to pieces. Second trip I saw a couple, looks like they were running on the ground and ran up trees briefly before back to the ground. Never got a shot on either before I had to head back.
I've got this new CZ and scope dialed in pretty well and I am loving the simplicity of just getting out without a lot of unnecessary junk and enjoying the fall woods.
Anybody still chasing squirrels and where should I be looking as we get later into fall?

Haven't found a bad squirrel spot yet. I'm new to TN so iv been squirrels hunting while scouting for deer

 

[opportunistic]

Haven't found a bad squirrel spot yet. I'm new to TN so iv been squirrels hunting while scouting for deer

 

[Kelljp]

I ran dogs at chuck swan today. Treed 3 Dens and make one kill. It was bad dry. No other hunters. Ran into a hiker said he had been hiking. 5 Miles seen 1 squirrel. They didn't stir today

Been wanting to try squirrel hunting on Chuck Swan, do they let you hunt on non quota deer hunt days ?

 

[rong]

I usually wait until the deer seasons are over to even start. Looks like we got an extension to the late season this year.

 

[Kelljp]

Same here, nothing worse than walking in on a deer hunter with TN seasons a couple of weeks in September and February is about the only time I can hunt squirrels, rabbit or grouse without taking a chance of messing a deer hunter up. One reason I don't keep hunting dogs any more.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I'll start back at it next weekend, after some of the quota deer hunts are over.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

I'm by no means done for the year. Been deer hunting our gun season & took a bird trip to KS for a couple days. Duck season will occupy most my time when I'm not working from here on out but I'm not going to press it if we don't have weather & birds. So, these bushy tails ain't out of the woods yet.