Limb Rats....

[SaltwaterSlick]

Still one of my fondest childhood and early adult memories! I absolutely love slipping through a creek bottom and hunting squirrels!! I took it to a new level when my dad got me a Weatherby MkII semi-auto 22 with a 2 1/2 power redfield scope... I became a squirrel killin machine!! First time out, I got a limit and 8 of the 10 were head shot... got home I was so proud, but my dad and brother about kicked my butt!! Told me to shoot 'em behind the shoulders... Mamma can't make squirrel head dumplin' if you shoot 'em in the head!! We used to save all the heads and mom would make a pot of dumplins using just the heads... would be a big ol Magna-lite pot with about 20 or more heads... MAN that was some good eatin'!! Grew up hunting along Pine Island Bayou just west of where it crosses HWY 146 and north of beautiful downtown Batson... Timber companies destroyed that part of the Big Thicket though... Nuthin' but a bunch of pine trees now through much of the area we hunted...

[hoythunter02]

Back before we got deer and Hogs, Squirrel and rabbits were all we had to hunt[ATTACH]1104800[/ATTACH]

That’s awesome sir. That pic says a lot.


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[LoganAY]

Had a good opening weekend at my camp in Louisiana. Lots of fox squirrels along the Red River bottoms.

Nice hunt!!


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[Buff]

Back before we got deer and Hogs, Squirrel and rabbits were all we had to hunt

[Radar]

One of my buddies has a couple of good squirrel dogs and it is a blast hunting over them.

Before last year I hadn't squirell hunted in years, used to go as a kid nearly every day after school behind the house.

We had squirrel dogs for years, and it was lots of fun. My best little dog was a Mtn Feist I got out of Kentucky. We would ride horses or mules and hunt for hours.

Everything has changed so much around here and not many folks will allow any coon or squirrel hunting with tree dogs anymore. Only takes one bad dog to chase a deer and ruin it for all.

[muzzlebrake]

I clean swamp rabbit the same way.

[muzzlebrake]

Shucked many a tree rat when I was a kid. My grandpa taught me the art of squirrel shucking. My Grandma taught me the art of frying them up. I pretty much made squirrels extinct in north Fannin county back in the good ol days.

[RaginCagin]

Had a good opening weekend at my camp in Louisiana. Lots of fox squirrels along the Red River bottoms.

[LoganAY]

Made some squirrel tacos recently. Not a bad way to eat some if you only shoot a couple.


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[jnd1959]

Hunted squirrel last year for the first time in a long time. My favorite is to float the river. I'm gonna have to do that this year.

When I was about half to a grape Nehi, I hunted with a shotgun. The old man let me but didn't really like it. Too many pellets he'd say.

[Big pig]

Cat squirrels with a .22 is sport. Makes fox squirrels seem easy.
Our Leon country place was mostly fox. The last year is was more 60/40 cats.

[Snowflake Killa]

I saw something today that I've never seen before. Sitting in Houston on the phone in the hood fixing to walk a job. And all of a sudden I saw something rolling on the ground. A Damm house cat grab this fox squirrel and killed it. And this cat wasn't much bigger than the squirrel. Freaking hood rats

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[Gumbo Man]

I love the cold weather. Those road kill squirrels stay fresh for a long time.

[LoganAY]

I cut my teeth squirrel hunting last year. I just shoot off my back porch mostly. My last batch of squirrel was given away by my wife to our neighbor because she thought it was our left over raw dog food after our dog died. I sure wish I coulda eatin it before she purged my spoils. I hope to go out and squirrel hunt some this year after deer season.


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[Texas452]

I'm undecided on what I want to do this weekend.....chase limb rats down the river or take the bow and climber. Might do both.

I floated down a river and squirrel hunted once in my life.
That was the best squirrel hunt I have ever been on.