[toolman]

Are we talkin' two legged or four legged squirrels? I put the four legged kind down quick, but I like the two legged ones to bleed out, real slow like...'specially iff'n they're kin to me!

[andrew cochran]

Quote:       Originally Posted by jimkim

I aim for the head when I'm using a 22 or pellet rifle. I use a shotgun a lot so with it, it doesn't matter.

I do too.

[Palladin8]

I used my 20 gauge the only time I have hunted them. So it was pretty much body and head shots with the pellet spread.

[andrew cochran]

Bout all you can do with a shotgun unless your using slugs! LOL

[Joshua M. Smith]

Whatever target presents itself first.

I have a match capable rifle that will do caliber sized holes at 50 yards so it's more than capable of head shots.

Lining up for head shots, holding still, and making the squirrel somehow hold still (nervous critters!) is a whole 'nuther matter entirely.

I will shoot at the first target which 1) Presents itself and 2) guarantees a clean kill with HP ammo. (I have lost several to chest hits with solids.)

Josh <><

[Idaho Dave]

varmint hunting I will shoot them anyplace I see, and I like the head shot on fur animals. If I am shooting grouse with the 22 I aim for the head. But I will be honest I dont eat the squirrls so I seldom shoot them so I dont mind shooting them in the body.

But when I am big game hunting I never take headshots. I have seen people shoot the lower jaw of elk and nose and the antlers off deer before, and they too were great shoots usually. for me the head on a big game animal is just something that moves too fast and too often for me to want to chance my food on that shot.

[andrew cochran]

Your missin out on that good ole squirrel meat!

[Idaho Dave]

Quote:       Originally Posted by andrew cochran

Your missin out on that good ole squirrel meat!

I dont even know anyone here that eats them for real. Some people say they do but I never see them hunting them and saving them. I dont know if its a difference in the type of squirrel or if there is a cultural thing. but I might try it if it were made for me. Or I was real real hungry

[andrew cochran]

Here's one I shot last fall. And yes he was frozen. He went in the stew.

http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/mem...e1207-meat.jpg

Maybe some don't but I do!

[andrew cochran]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Idaho Dave

I dont even know anyone here that eats them for real. Some people say they do but I never see them hunting them and saving them. I dont know if its a difference in the type of squirrel or if there is a cultural thing. but I might try it if it were made for me. Or I was real real hungry

Don't you have red squirrels thier? That's prolly why. Because of the piny tast.

[NHmsj]

Quote:       Originally Posted by andrew cochran

Don't you have red squirrels thier? That's prolly why. Because of the piny tast.

I've heard a number of times how Red Squirrel tastes "piney". I've eaten not a few of the little buggers, and in different ways, and I have yet to eat one that tasted anything but like squirrel. But then, of course, I hunt mixed habitat, hardwoods and evergreen. Maybe the Reds around my parts have a more varied diet than those exclusive to evergreen woods?

msj

[andrew cochran]

I prolly wouldn't mind the piny tast and would eat them anyway. I really don't know what they tast like. Maybe like NHmsj said they really don't tast piny.

[Jersey Jailer]

Depends on the situation, 2 body 1 head ifn they're still standing. Being unarmed on duty (Corrections), My nickname at times was Sgt. Mace or Capt.Chlorox(when I was a Lt.), or Cap'm. Cayenne. I always liked pepper spray, or dislocation of the knee cap, provided of course the applied force was necessary and unavoidable.;-}

[Jersey Jailer]

Oh and Andrew

I'm from Sowt Joisey an da guys frum Atlantic City assure me it's R-Kansas;-)

[andrew cochran]

No it's actually AR can (like soup) Saw Like a saw. Although not spelled that way.
(Arkansas) LOL

[billy]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Jersey Jailer

BILLY..... Brad Y, Sory to say this as much as I consider squirrels vermin.

huh?

[Jersey Jailer]

BILLY.....!!!!!

Brad Y,
Sorry to say this as much as I consider squirrels vermin, if you shoot anything just to watch it "blow up" then I have a problem with you're thinking. You can do what you like but unless they are varmints in Austrailia or you are filling the freezer, there's no need to shoot anything live, including bunnies. To shoot them for the enjoyment of watching them explode, doesn't sit right with me. I've been known ro shoot ground hogs from the house, but they burrow holes and tunnels in my wifes horse pasture, I took them out before on of the horses got hurt. I did it for financial reasons, my wife for the damn horses.

I don't need to eat and although I love the occaisional piece of Pork loin, filet, t-bone, or fowl (water or field) I eat vegetables(for medical reasons). I came home from SE Asia in 1973, went hunting, bagged a good sized Buck, and by the time I got to it I watched it taking it's last breaths. I had flash backs for a week and decided not to hunt anymore. If I needed to eat, it would be a different story. I'm not opposed to hunting for food, just not for the "fun" of it.

If you want to have fun..take your 22-250 and shoot 1L water bottles filled with coloured water at abt 100M (thats a tad over 109 yds to us Yanks) I'm not trying to hurt your feelings, just this is how I feel and I'm sorry if I offended you.

[Jersey Jailer]

Andrew,

If Parker Bro.s sez "R-Kansas" then it's gotta be. It's just like "ruuff" not "roof" it's the front stoop not "porch" or "stairs". "whater" not "water" caint you people down there talk right?

Ernie

[billy]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Jersey Jailer

BILLY.....!!!!! Brad Y, Sorry to say this as much as I consider squirrels vermin, if you shoot anything just to watch it "blow up" then I have a problem with you're thinking. You can do what you like but unless they are varmints in Austrailia or you are filling the freezer, there's no need to shoot anything live, including bunnies. To shoot them for the enjoyment of watching them explode, doesn't sit right with me. I've been known ro shoot ground hogs from the house, but they burrow holes and tunnels in my wifes horse pasture, I took them out before on of the horses got hurt. I did it for financial reasons, my wife for the damn horses. I don't need to eat and although I love the occaisional piece of Pork loin, filet, t-bone, or fowl (water or field) I eat vegetables(for medical reasons). I came home from SE Asia in 1973, went hunting, bagged a good sized Buck, and by the time I got to it I watched it taking it's last breaths. I had flash backs for a week and decided not to hunt anymore. If I needed to eat, it would be a different story. I'm not opposed to hunting for food, just not for the "fun" of it. If you want to have fun..take your 22-250 and shoot 1L water bottles filled with coloured water at abt 100M (thats a tad over 109 yds to us Yanks) I'm not trying to hurt your feelings, just this is how I feel and I'm sorry if I offended you.

i dont kill for sport OR food.
i get paid to shoot p-dogs sometimes because of the health hazard they present as carriers of plague.
many of the regulars here know exactly where i stand on thrill killing.
i think it's dispicable.
and from reading i have done killing small animals for fun as a youth is one of the warning signs to look for in a serial killer as an adult.

[andrew cochran]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Jersey Jailer

Andrew, If Parker Bro.s sez "R-Kansas" then it's gotta be. It's just like "ruuff" not "roof" it's the front stoop not "porch" or "stairs". "whater" not "water" caint you people down there talk right? Ernie

Ha That's how we talk now but you gotta say Arkansas right! LOL